What a 200-year-old experiment can teach anxious parents about home schooling | Sarah Stein Lubrano | The Guardian

Learning isn’t only about textbooks, it’s about awakening in the pupil the desire to grapple with interesting challengesFor perhaps the first time in the history of modern education, millions of primary and secondary students may begin the school year from home. While pupils in England are due to return to in-person learning this September, uncertainty remains as cases rise, local lockdowns are implemented, and the scientific community warns that the government’s test and trace system is not up to the job of containing potential spikes caused by the return of schools. Some parents may choose not to send their children back for their family’s safety.School leaders and teachers will be rightly concerned about kids who have fallen behind. Parents and carers will be feeling anxious about the need, once again, to juggle work and home schooling. Continue reading…

Learning isn’t only about textbooks, it’s about awakening in the pupil the desire to grapple with interesting challenges

For perhaps the first time in the history of modern education, millions of primary and secondary students may begin the school year from home. While pupils in England are due to return to in-person learning this September, uncertainty remains as cases rise, local lockdowns are implemented, and the scientific community warns that the government’s test and trace system is not up to the job of containing potential spikes caused by the return of schools. Some parents may choose not to send their children back for their family’s safety.

School leaders and teachers will be rightly concerned about kids who have fallen behind. Parents and carers will be feeling anxious about the need, once again, to juggle work and home schooling.

Continue reading…