What Educating Our Kids Looks Like After COVID-19
The Daily Signal Podcast
The Daily Signal
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🗓️ 2 April 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This Saturday edition of "The Daily Signal Podcast" features a discussion with Andy Smarick, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, on how education is evolving after the COVID-19 pandemic.
School lockdowns, masking, and other restrictions have affected how parents across America think about their children's education. COVID-19 accelerated certain trends that already were afoot, such as the demand for increasing school choice opportunities outside public schools.
Moreover, parts of America have been the scene of tremendous battles over the content of curriculum, particularly regarding critical race theory, which parents were shocked to find in their children's instruction.
So what's next?
Smarick observes that COVID-19 launched "small learning communities really oriented around the needs of families and kids" because restrictions during the pandemic resulted in "50 million students [who] suddenly had to find something different because their schools were shut down."
"And that's when we saw the rise of pods, hubs, and hybrid homeschooling and also microschooling," he says. "This is just a wonderful Tocquevillian response, spontaneous order to a calamitous situation where all these parents were saying, 'Heavens, we just need new options for our kids because they're not getting anything and I still have to work.'"
The real question is whether this revolution in education will continue.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Saturday edition of the Daily Signal Podcast for Saturday, April 2. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Richard Grinch. |
| 0:13.0 | COVID altered the state of education in America in many ways through the restrictions, lockdowns, |
| 0:21.0 | masks, and other details of the COVID regime. |
| 0:24.0 | Many parents sought new ways to educate their children, and in certain cases they had to, |
| 0:31.0 | because their schools were closed for an extended period of time. |
| 0:34.0 | Today, we're talking with Andy Smerik, Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Institute |
| 0:39.0 | about the exciting world of education after COVID. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to an edition of the Daily Signal Podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Richard Grinch. Today, we're talking with Andy Smerik, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute |
| 1:00.0 | about education in America after COVID. |
| 1:03.0 | Andy Smerik, an edition to being a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, |
| 1:08.0 | was appointed in 2021 by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to the University of Maryland Board of Regents. |
| 1:15.0 | He's also served as Chair of the Maryland Higher Education Commission, |
| 1:20.0 | and a President of the Maryland State Board of Education. |
| 1:25.0 | And he has done this as a Conservative in Maryland, which is its own interesting conversation. |
| 1:31.0 | Andy, welcome to the program. |
| 1:34.0 | It's a treat to be here. Thank you for having me, Richard. |
| 1:38.0 | Andy, you are someone who is not just a writer, researcher, commentator, |
| 1:45.0 | but as your bioindicates, you've been involved in the public square in a way that many of us, |
| 1:50.0 | people like myself, have not. |
| 1:52.0 | I mean, you've actually been involved in these debates where the rubber meets the road, |
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