“This is the time for innovation to rise up,” Bush says.

Surveying Louisiana residents about their response to the coronavirus pandemic.

A visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, John Bailey, joins Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss Bailey’s new study, which details how students and teachers can plan to return to physical school buildings in the 2020-21 academic year amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Robin Lake on moving from “a state of shock to providing ongoing education to kids”

“One of the things that districts discovered quickly was that many of their teachers didn’t have wi-fi at home.”

A Wall Street Journal editorial warns of “the potential for arrested educational development” related to decisions by some school districts, in response to the pandemic, to suspend or alter their usual grading policies. Says the Journal: “The pandemic will pass, but what used to be called the soft bigotry of low expectations helps no one but teachers who don’t want to be measured by what their students learn.”

“What I’ve heard from a lot of homeschooling families is the moment you leave traditional school, you realize how much time is wasted.”

Policy adviser John Bailey on deciding to close schools and how to prepare for fall

EdNext Podcast · Ep. 197 - April 23, 2020: Coronavirus Could Fuel Demand for...

Chester E. Finn, Jr. is interviewed by his Reagan administration education department colleague, William...