Online learning is failing. It accentuates class divides between public and private schools and across social classes. And this is in the developed world. The challenges in developing countries to successful online learning are far greater. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/02/remote-education-failure-coronavirus/?utm_campaign=wp_opinions_pm&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_popns
Article argues a more nuanced view of student debt and how the burden is largely born by higher income households. Article argues against wholesale debt forgiveness. https://www-brookings-edu.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/10/09/who-owes-the-most-in-student-loans-new-data-from-the-fed/amp/
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Article neatly highlights the double poverty burden of Covid rules – poor working women who don’t can’t afford to hire childcare providers and children who disproportionately suffer from home schooling. The evidence shows that opening schools presenta relatively low risk. But when the voiceless disproportionately suffer who will listen? Boris Johnson telling the employer to …
The Economist | Schools of hard knocks An important experiment in education reveals mixed results. https://www.economist.com/node/21777603?frsc=dg%7Ce
The $1.6tn US student debt nightmare – https://on.ft.com/2suSeq3 via @FT
https://www.nationalmemo.com/department-of-education-wasted-1-billion-on-failed-charter-schools/
Technical schools lavished with Gove funding criticised by watchdog https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/oct/30/technical-schools-lavished-with-gove-funding-criticised-by-watchdog?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Starting university? Lesson one is how to budget – https://on.ft.com/2nEqmxg via @FT
This supreme court ruling helped create a revolution in cost of student textbooks. https://www.cnbc.com/id/100569141