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Liz WillenDear reader,
 
A wise principal once shared with me a painful, pre-pandemic truth: No one gets through middle school unscathed. Our story on what’s happened to a group of Philadelphia middle schoolers and their teachers who are struggling to stay connected during quarantine is a poignant reminder of the principal’s message and is well worth your time.
 
Reopening schools safely is as urgent as it is complicated, and once school buildings do reopen, there will be many questions about the role of school police on campuses. This week, The Hechinger Report also took a close look at the shift away from requiring ACT and SAT scores in college admissions, while I spoke with four freshmen about how their first semester of college went during the pandemic. “I barely left my dorm room,” one told me.
 
We also examined two critical workforce issues: why the U.S. is ill-equipped to help workers find new jobs in a time of high unemployment, and why women, after encountering sexual harassment and discrimination, are pushing for big changes when it comes to apprenticeships. We also bring you the latest research on what’s working in special education, and some hopeful news about music education in the age of Zoom.
 
As always, we love to hear from our readers.

Liz Willen, Editor
 
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Main Idea 

‘I can’t do this anymore’: How four middle schoolers are struggling through the pandemic

Isolated from peers and forced into remote learning, students experience loss, educational setbacks – and some unexpected academic progress.
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If schools don’t overhaul discipline, ‘teachers will still be calling the police on our Black students’

As districts across the country cut their school resource officers, advocates warn it won’t be enough to end overly harsh discipline of Black students


The jobs where sexual harassment and discrimination never stopped

Apprenticeships are spreading as a debt-free path to the middle class. But in these training programs, sexual harassment and discrimination are endemic. Now women are pushing for change.


COLUMN: Isolated in dorm rooms or stuck at home, some freshmen wonder if college is worth it

Their senior year of high school was upended by the coronavirus. Now freshman year of college has been transformed too. For these students, feeling frozen in place has become the norm.


Should teachers be apolitical?

When even facts are politicized, guidance that teachers steer clear of politics in the classroom is all impossible to navigate.


Why is it so hard for workers to find new jobs?

With almost 11 million people unemployed, the United States is ill-equipped to help them retrain and prepare for new careers.


PROOF POINTS: New answers to old questions about special education

NYC study shows services improved test scores for children with dyslexia and other specific learning disabilities.


Advocates hope pandemic shift away from requiring SAT and ACT will help diversity

But experiences of colleges that are already test-optional show other changes are also needed.


When students research the inequality in their own schools

High schoolers from Rhode Island were trained to conduct their own research on the education problems they experience firsthand.
 

OPINION: Singing in the parking lot, and other pandemic strategies for music students 

A longtime music educator looks back and ahead to see how conservatories, classrooms and programs are managing.


COLUMN: The four steps to safely reopen schools and save our nation

Schools can be the common ground that we’ve been looking for, but it will take more than simply reopening them to pick up the pieces of 2020.


OPINION: How can we prevent a generation of pandemic-isolated misfits?

Kids need games and a chance to play so they can normalize what they’ve lost.
Solutions 
"Bringing ‘book-learning’ to life: Pandemic drives surge to forest schools," Healthy Debate

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