Keep Schools Open All Summer, And Other Bold Ideas To Help Kids Catch Up

Education experts, parents and students are thinking about what is going to be necessary to recover — and at the same time the things that are not worth returning to.

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It’s been 11 months since schools first shut down across the country and around the world.

And most students in the U.S. are still experiencing disruptions to their learning — going into the classroom only a few days a week or not at all.

To respond to this disruption, education leaders are calling for a reinvention of public education on the order of the Marshall Plan, the massive U.S. initiative to rebuild Western Europe after the devastations of World War II.