School board elections are becoming increasingly fractious and political events, with candidates focused on one or two issues. An education policy scholar explains why that’s a worrisome trend.
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In-person learning can safely resume as long as schools take steps to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
We are repeatedly missing opportunities to gain quality evidence to help us manage the pandemic – that’s why we need designed evaluations.
It is a false dichotomy to judge schools as either ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe’. The reality is more complicated.
Any decision that places a child’s physical and mental health at risk shouldn’t be taken lightly, so policy-makers and parents alike should listen to those most affected — the children themselves.
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Doctoral Fellow, Sociology, Carleton University
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President of the Royal Statistical Society & Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
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Academic Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, University of Washington
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Neag Professor of Educational Policy, University of Connecticut
