Online learning isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
When schools closed and moved to online learning in March, it created a wide range of expected and unexpected new challenges for parents, students, educators, and elected officials.
Here are highlights of lohud's ongoing coverage of the issues and challenges surrounding online learning during the coronavirus pandemic:
Getting going: How online learning could evolve during the pandemic
Shortly after schools were closed in New York, we looked at the upcoming issues that online learning could lead to.
At home: What does online learning look like?
We visit two families — one each in Elmsford and Yonkers — to get a sense of what online learning looked like. Make no mistake, this new approach is very much in transition and is asking a lot of children, their parents and their teachers. It's a new morning for all.
“I think [homeschool] will get hard," said Julia Wright-Rogers of Elmsford. "I am hopeful about it, because I like being with them. But they're gonna start to get squirrelly without seeing their friends. At least they have each other. I can't imagine if I had a single child.”
Special ed: The particular challenges facing students with their disabilities
Students with a wide range of disabilities — very particular physical, cognitive and emotional issues, and often combinations of them — normally receive an array of special services in school, sometimes involving direct, hands-on help. Federal and state laws require that these students have educational opportunities available to students without disabilities, and that they receive the most individualized services necessary.
Now, in the age of the coronavirus, many teachers and specialists are working intensely with parents to identify the best methods to replace tactile instruction, often involving visual and audio instruction online.
Inequity exposed: How are schools educating kids who can't get online?
The Lower Hudson Valley is known for its wealthy enclaves, but the area is home to low-income, urban communities and plenty of towns that fall somewhere in between. The result is a stark difference between the resources available to school systems. While online instruction is a challenge for all districts, for those with fewer resources, it's a challenge to do it at all.
“It's mirroring the inequality that we've always seen in New York's public schools,” said Jasmine Gripper, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a statewide advocacy organization.
3-8 tests: Canceled for the school year
On March 20, the state Education Department said its annual tests in math and ELA would not take place during the 2019-20 school year.
"It is most important that during the time of closure, schools are able to continue to focus their efforts toward local school and community needs, as they have been doing, and not be concerned about State assessments," Chancellor Betty Rosa and interim state Education Commission Shannon Tahoe said in a joint statement.
Regents exams: Canceled, and students do not have to make them up
Chancellor Betty Rosa said April 6 that Regents exams scheduled for June would not take place.
The state announced the next day that students would not have to make up the exams to earn credit for Regents courses. “No student should be denied course credit or a high school diploma or otherwise penalized due to these extraordinary circumstances," said Robert Schneider, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association.
The dangers of abuse: With children home and families strained, abuse and neglect could rise
The coronavirus pandemic has left 3 million New York children home from school, with untold numbers cared for by adults facing rising job, health and food insecurities, all within the close quarters required for social distancing.
One expected result, experts say, will be child neglect and abuse.
“There's real worry about child safety and well being,” said Danielle Weisberg, director of child welfare at the Westchester Institute for Human Development in Valhalla.
Home alone: The stresses facing isolated high school students
Senior prom, high school sports, the senior musical, graduation. High school students have little to distract them from uncertainty besides sleep and schoolwork.
Age gaps: How online learning differs from elementary to middle school to high school
Online learning is not one size fits all. The types of instruction offered, and the challenges faced by educators and families, vary dramatically for students in the different age groups. We looked at this in this article for subscribers.
“I'd say it's equally hard on them, but for three very different reasons,” said Ellen Sledge of Hastings-on-Hudson. “My oldest needs instruction. She's taking academically heavy courses. My youngest needs the support team that would be in a collaborative classroom. My middle schooler has all of the ambition and academic drive of a middle schooler.”
Reopening schools: Why it will be so difficult
Whenever schools do reopen, it may look very different. Whether you can social distance, where students are academically, psychologically and emotionally all need to be considered, as explored in this article.
"The uncertainty is overwhelming. Schools can't turn on a dime and impose social distancing, or other restrictions, in a bus, a classroom, a cafeteria," said David Albert, spokesman for the state School Boards Association.
Grading students: How schools are calculating grades during period of flux
How do you determine grades for a school year where in-person learning was halted in March and the rest of the work was done online during a global pandemic. Grading is a challenge at every level, but particularly for high school students, whose GPAs will be included on college applications as we explored in this article, available for subscribers.
“Managing parent expectations is a challenge, because people really worry about their kids' future,” said Carol Conklin-Spillane, president of the Empire State Supervisors and Administrators Association. “What's this going to do to GPA? What's this going to do to the college search process? There's no easy answer.”
Live teaching: Districts have very different approaches in online learning plans
When online learning started, many parents assumed this meant live teaching. While live teaching has played a role, school districts have defined it very differently, as we explore in this article, available for subscribers.
“We had some parents asking questions, essentially when is my kid going to have online school, and I said, it's not going to be online school,” Hendrick Hudson Superintendent Joseph Hochreiter said
Financial crisis: Facing uncertain costs, New York schools may have to slice staff and programs
New York's school districts are counting on a major infusion of federal aid to states and education to prevent debilitating cuts to staff and programs — at a time when schools are remaking education on the fly in response to the coronavirus crisis.
Educators are warning of the kind of public school retrenchment that came during and after the Great Recession.
"Without federal assistance, schools are in a world of hurt," said Michael Borges, executive director of the Association of School Business Officials of New York.
Cuomo relents: Says schools will stay closed for rest of school year, and 'fall is a long time away'
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who did not want to close schools, finally gave in and declared on May 1 that K-12 schools will stay closed through the school year, which ends in late June.
Online learning will continue. A decision will be reached by late May on whether school districts can offer summer school. Cuomo called on districts to begin developing plans to eventually reopen schools, acknowledging that doing so will be a steep challenge.
"How do you get a 10-year-old not to social distance?" Cuomo asked.
We covered his announcement and what it means going forward.
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