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Liz WillenDear reader,
 
Long before the pandemic hastened the closing of child care centers just when they are most needed, the U.S. has struggled to offer sufficient safe and affordable child care options.
 
Now, rampant closures are having a disproportionate impact on families of color, at a time when expenses are growing and federal help is scant. Our story this week goes deep to explain what’s happening. And we also examined the growing debates on what it will take (and cost) to safely open all schools; how and if to bring back standardized testing, and what gym class looks like on lockdown (hint: it’s loud). 
 
As always, we love to hear from our readers during these deeply challenging times.

Liz Willen, Editor
 
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Main Idea 

After mass closures, too little support, post-pandemic child care options will be scarce

Without massive changes in state and federal child care policy, it may be too late to save thousands of closed child care businesses and infeasible to create new ones.
Reading List 

PROOF POINTS: New wave of research shows nudging students by text is not as promising as hoped

As texting reaches a larger audience, it’s less effective.
 

Kids are shooting hoops with rolled up socks, but pandemic phys ed is not cancelled

Daily exercise may be even more important for kids’ mental and physical health now than it was pre-Covid, but whether they're getting it is impossible to say.
 

To test or not to test? Educators weigh the value of standardized testing during a pandemic

The children most likely to have lost ground, low income students and students of color, are also those most likely to skip tests, which could leave schools with dangerously dubious data.


OPINION: Resuming universal standardized testing in America’s public schools would be ‘foolhardy’

How and when to assess the pandemic’s consequences on student learning.
 

How much will it take to reopen, catch up kids, and save public schooling long term?

Billions of stimulus dollars are flowing to public schools, but experts say it may not be enough without big changes to how states allocate funds.
Solutions 
"One district's creative approach to 'COVID slide?' Night classes for elementary students," Burlington Free Press 

This week’s solutions section came from SolutionsU powered by Solutions Journalism Network and their database of solutions journalism. Search for more solutions.
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