{"id":7614,"date":"2021-05-07T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2021-05-10T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T17:58:25","slug":"newsweek-oped-focus-making-schools-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/ht\/news\/newsweek-oped-focus-making-schools-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed Newsweek: Konsantre sou amelyore lek\u00f2l nou yo"},"content":{"rendered":"

As educators prepare for the upcoming school year, they may be tempted to figure out how to address the learning loss brought on by the pandemic. Understandably, they might look for simplified curriculum as a way to ease students back into learning. <\/p>\n

This is the wrong focus, writes Paul Bambrick-Santoyo and Stephen Chiger in a Newsweek op-ed<\/a>. Rather than avoiding the struggle, we should embrace the “productive struggle” and support our students as they challenge and stretch themselves. <\/p>\n

“You might ask, what’s the harm of slowing things down? Quite a bit, it turns out.<\/p>\n

When we fail to challenge all of our students, they begin to experience what literacy experts call the ‘Matthew Effect.’ Essentially, those who are already reading at grade level continue to grow, while those who aren’t lag further behind. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the full op-ed isit la<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pandan edikat\u00e8 yo ap prepare pou nouvo ane lek\u00f2l la, yo ka santi yo tente pou yo ch\u00e8che konnen kijan pou yo adrese p\u00e8t aprantisaj pandemi an te koze. N\u00f2malman, yo ka ch\u00e8che yon kourikoul\u00f2m ki pi senp k\u00f2m yon fason pou ede el\u00e8v yo retounen nan aprantisaj la pi fasil. Sa se pa bon pwen fokal la, se sa Paul Bambrick-Santoyo ak Stephen Chiger ekri nan yon \u2026 Kontinye<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNewsweek Op-Ed: Focus on Making Our Schools Better - Uncommon Schools<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Instead of worrying about learning loss, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo and Stephen Chiger argue that educators should focus on making learning gains.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/ht\/nouvel\/newsweek-oped-focus-making-schools-better\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ht_HT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Newsweek Op-Ed: Focus on Making Our Schools Better - 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