School’s out forever?

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🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

School closures are a big deal for kids and parents, says education reporter Moriah Balingit. How the shift to online learning has exposed America’s deep digital divide from Tony Romm. And an audio diary of working from home with kids, from Alexis Diao.

The unintended consequences of closing schools.

The move to online learning is exposing Internet-access inequality among kids in the U.S.

Online learning has a curve.

Post Reports producer Alexis Diao keeps a diary of working from home with kids. Here are tips for working from home and keeping your sanity.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.0	Hi, this is Tracy Jamm, Colley from the Post.
0:08.0	I'm a president for a PowerU PowerU.
0:10.0	Hi, it's Robert Devon at the Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers.
0:16.0	It's Friday, March 27th.
0:20.0	Today, the unintended consequences of closing schools,
0:26.0	a digital divide with online learning,
0:29.0	and parenting during a pandemic.
0:35.0	Within the last hour,
0:38.0	Oregon Governor Cape Brown ordered a statewide closure of all
0:43.0	K-12 schools starting Monday.
0:46.0	Breaking news out of North Idaho.
0:48.0	School is now officially out for an-
0:50.0	Dallas ISD, this is actually a copy of the letter here in Chicago.
0:53.0	On Tuesday of this week, schools were closed through March 30th.
0:57.0	I know it is difficult for Mississippi families when schools are shut down.
1:02.0	Honestly, if we have our kids in our classrooms,
1:05.0	we're more likely to get more learning accomplished.
1:08.0	So something like 55 million children are impacted by school closures right now.
1:14.0	And it's not just their education that's impacted.
1:18.0	It's so many areas of their lives.
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