MSU researchers found the negative effects of remote learning persisted even after students returned to classrooms last year, though these performance gaps shrunk once most classrooms reopened.
Tracie Mauriello, Chalkbeat Detroit
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
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Tutors, teacher retention top Gretchen Whitmer school goals if reelected
The Democratic governor cites unprecedented investments in public schools during her first term. But her aggressive COVID pandemic policies, including school closures, have fueled conservative attacks on her leadership.
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Tudor Dixon embraces parents rights, civics as Michigan education focus
The GOP nominee for governor leans strongly into culture-war issues that are now Republican mainstream, including restrictions on LGBTQ books and critical race theory. Parents, she said, are too often left out of school curriculum decisions.
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Yom Kippur conflicts with student count day in Michigan schools
Superintendents will be counting Michigan students Oct. 5, but many children will be out of school observing a major Jewish holiday. It’s a crucial day for Michigan school districts trying to maximize state funding, but this year it coincides with Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year when the observant fast, pray, and abstain from work and school.
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What Michigan schools could look like under Tudor Dixon, Gretchen Whitmer
Dixon favors school choice and a tougher 3rd-grade reading law, along with culture-war takes on drag queens and transgender sports eligibility. Whitmer supports policies that help retain teachers and provide robust funding for public schools.
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Here is where Michigan Republican governor candidates stand on education
The candidates discuss school safety, pandemic-related issues, teacher retention, and how they differentiate themselves from their four ballot rivals ahead of the Tuesday primary.
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6 Michigan education proposals that lawmakers punted to the fall
Legislative loose ends: Bills on teaching race, paying student teachers, creating dyslexia programs were still winding their way through the Michigan statehouse when lawmakers adjourned for the summer.
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Short on teachers, Michigan schools try to grow their own
East Kentwood High School in suburban Grand Rapids is one of several Michigan high schools identifying students who may be interested in the teaching profession and giving them a taste for leading a classroom.
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Michigan may loosen school language requirements in favor of computers, finance
Programming and personal finance classes would count toward graduation requirements under pending legislation. Backers say it would better prepare students; foes say computers are no substitute for language.
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School violence is rising. Michigan’s OK2SAY tipline can help
State police believe OK2SAY has stopped suicides, assaults, vandalism, and worse.