Community college enrollment has dropped 13 percent since the Covid-19 pandemic. But schools with a vocational focus have rebounded
COVID-19
We should learn from excessive economic restrictions and school closures in order to ensure that we protect both lives and livelihoods in future pandemics. Most importantly, we must overhaul the ways in which we make decisions and acquire data about critical public health threats.
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The percentage of children who could not perform basic skills grew after two years of school closures during the pandemic, confirming our worst fears
The test scores of children from lower-income households declined more than their peers
New legislation would allow states and school districts to provide funding directly to parents to help students
Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, states have only spent about 20 percent
While policymakers and public health leaders faced many challenging decisions, it has become clear that prolonged public school closures were an avoidable
The children harmed by school closures may never catch up with those who lived where schools were open: a gap that is widening further.
The vaccines have had a major effect at decreasing severe outcomes from the disease