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On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with Brian Jacob about the ways in which the pandemic changed the grammar of schooling. Nat and Brian discuss the pandemic’s effects on student technology use, parent-teacher communication, and individualized instruction; why pandemic-era changes seem more durable in high schools and middle schools than in elementary schools; whether charter schools changed as much during the pandemic as conventional public schools did; what the pandemic’s effects on schools can teach us about how schools will use AI; whether changes to schooling are driven by students’ needs or by other factors; whether teachers are optimistic about the state of schooling; hybrid education, ESSA, and the juvenile detention system; and more.
Brian Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and Professor of Economics at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
Show Notes:
Did COVID-19 Shift the “Grammar of Schooling”? (coauthored with Cristina Stanojevich)
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COVID was a blessing in two ways. First, it exposed what was actually being taught in schools. Second, it exposed the dictatorial tendencies of many executive branch politicians.
Maybe I should add a third: It exposed the general public to how the deep state and its unelected bureaucrats can directly screw up their lives (looking at you, Fauci) . . .