by Anna Cayco | Apr 16, 2024 | News, Spotlights
With looming threats of high teacher turnover rates during COVID-19, Olivia Chi, an assistant professor at Boston University, wanted to study how the pandemic shaped who decided to become a teacher. She discusses on Harvard EdCast the implications of “emergency...
by Anna Cayco | Oct 25, 2021 | Local News, News
Mass. teacher turnover was flat, but diversity increased during the pandemic (WBUR) WBUR – Massachusetts teachers largely stayed in their jobs during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report. That analysis also revealed some surprising...
by Anna Cayco | Oct 25, 2021 | National News, News
Kids Left Schools Last Year Because of the Switch to Remote Classes; Early Numbers Suggest They May Not Be Coming Back Soon (The 74) The 74 MILLION – With the release of new data in recent months, a clearer picture is emerging of how K-12 enrollment has...
by Anna Cayco | Oct 11, 2021 | National News, News
4 trends in public school enrollment due to COVID-19 (The Conversation) THE CONVERSATION – When schools began the fall semester of 2020 – six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic – many of them reported a significant decline in...
by Anna Cayco | Sep 29, 2021 | National News, News
Public schools see fewer enrolled kindergartners. Where’d they go? NPR Marketplace – Among the many things the pandemic has disrupted, education is near the top of the list — public school education, in particular, and enrollment in public schools, specifically....