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19 Aug 2023
#a2schoolboard meets this Wednesday at Skyline High School to consider resignation for the Superintendent, Jeanice Swift.
To submit public commentary, please sign up by 3 pm on Wednesday, Aug. 23 at this form: forms.gle/HXEn7eHRr9nnNer1A
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11 Feb 2023
If you live in Ann Arbor and have not seen this video from the most recent BOE meeting, please take a few minutes this weekend to check it out. Ann Arbor students and their families deserve better.
9 Feb 2023
For those who follow schools, this is how the superintendent of Michigan's 6th largest school district describes learning loss as not being a thing and that Covid's impact on kids was like a flat tire on the way to an outing at the zoo.
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Ann Arbor Reasonable Return retweeted
9 Jan 2023
Public commentary for the Wed. #a2schoolboard meeting is back up. To sign up, submit name and comments to tinyurl.com/aapscomment or emailing osinski@a2schools.org by 4 pm on 1/11. Meeting is at 3700 Earhart Road, A2. Speak in person or watch from home as your comment is read.
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Ann Arbor Reasonable Return retweeted
22 Dec 2022
1/ @a2schools has released Fall test scores (NWEA), and they don't paint a pretty picture. Black students have fallen further behind the national average their White peers. Ditto for poor students. Learning inequalities are widening with time.
Elementary grade results for math:
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28 Nov 2022
“In Ohio, researchers found that districts that stayed fully remote during the 2020-21 school year experienced declines up to three times greater than those of districts that mostly taught students in person.”
nytimes.com/2022/11/28/brief…
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4 Nov 2022
Moving into the weekend, a reminder of how much state leaders and physicians wanted districts like Ann Arbor to open.
Jan 2021, @GovWhitmer urged still-shuttered districts to offer an in-person option no later than March 1, earlier if possible.
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youtube.com/watch?v=d6VUwohF…
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4 Nov 2022
Dr. Karthikeyan:
“Our reopening plans need to be guided by hope and creativity, but above all, science. Not fear and misinformation. And, of course, we pediatricians always stand ready to assist in any manner possible.”
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4 Nov 2022
Thank you to the state and local leaders who spoke up. We noticed🌺
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4 Nov 2022
Please see our Nov newsletter. The highlights:
-School board election
-AAPS is relying on EdTech to address learning loss
-Evidence links school closures to declining test scores in reading and math.
School closures = “a policy that failed."
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2 Nov 2022
Dr. Kimberly Monroe, interim chief clinical officer at @MottChildren and @A2Return board member, recently spoke w/@freep about treating children with RSV.
We are grateful to Ann Arbor's pediatricians for their ongoing support of kids.
freep.com/story/news/health/…
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21 Sep 2022
Soledad O'Brien: 5,600 Michigan third graders are eligible to to repeat 3rd grade. "That seems pretty shocking to me."
Prof Strunk: "I think it's alarming." 6% of Michigan 3rd graders scored at least a year behind grade level.
Strunk: Data don't support kids' repeating
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21 Sep 2022
Hear from @KatharineStrunk, professor of education policy at @MSUCollegeofEd
and director of @EPICedpolicy, about new data that shows a sharp decline in standardized test scores across the nation during the pandemic.
bit.ly/3UeVKx8
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21 Sep 2022
. . . a grade. Better to help accelerate student learning. "We really want to get it right in elementary school."
For evidence-based approaches to supporting kids academically during the pandemic recovery, see this piece in @Nature
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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17 Sep 2022
More evidence of the harms of protracted school closures.
17 Sep 2022
A thread from @TheLancet @CovidCommission on school closures:
--> 195 countries closed schools during the pandemic, affecting more than 1·5 billion children and young people and posing enormous long-term and unrecoverable costs to them, their parents, and the economy.
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16 Sep 2022
A recent piece in The New Yorker presents a Q&A with Susanna Loeb, an education-policy researcher at Brown University.
Speaking about pandemic recovery, Loeb said: “There’s this moment of opportunity now,
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16 Sep 2022
"I think that what’s really important for students is to have an adult in school who knows them well, who knows their academic and social needs, and can really help them to learn and can celebrate successes with them and help them get on the right path."
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16 Sep 2022
“If we can do that. . .we can emerge with a better school system than we had before. It’s just going to take a lot of work.”
During the pandemic, AAPS closed schools, slashed child care & reduced bussing. Now AAPS should use pandemic recovery funds to support students.
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