Will Online Instruction Replace Brick-and-Mortar Schools After the Covid-19 Crisis?
While parents shelter-in-place maintaining a sense of normalcy for their children, those critical of public education won’t stop criticizing public schools. They believe that technology should replace teachers and brick-and-mortar schools. They imply that after this difficult period ends, we will move from brick-and-mortar schools to online instruction.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
In her recent talk about the Covid-19 crisis, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said:
I’ve always believed education funding should be tied to students, not systems, and that necessity has never been more evident (4:23).
Joy Hofmeister the school chief in Oklahoma may have put this best. She told me school isn’t a building. It’s students, teachers, and families working together to advance learning. She’s right and that’s our shared mission (5:52).
Hofmeister’s state has been using four online programs: CONTINUE READING: Will Online Instruction Replace Brick-and-Mortar Schools After the Covid-19 Crisis?