The Education Moment We Have Been Waiting For

I did something this morning I haven’t done in all the years I have been on Facebook. I made a comment on the New York Times page to an opinion piece written by Jennie Weiner. The title was “I Refuse to Run a Coronavirus Homeschool” and much of the article resonated with me. As a parent of two children, one in middle school and one in high school, I can fully appreciate the challenges of having to move into a new work paradigm. As a lifelong educator, in both public and private schools as well as a former researcher for the United States Department of Education I see this moment as one we have all been waiting for. The time has come where teaching and learning can change, not because we feel like chasing the latest educational trend, but because the world has been thrust into a new paradigm and we simply have no choice.