Parents On Remote Learning, Part 2: When Schools Falter, Do It Yourself

As remote learning continues this fall, parents will play a crucial role. Schools can ease their burden and boost achievement by focusing on material that actually engages kids—and parents.

In part one of this post, I described what I’d learned from speaking with parents about assignments sent home during school closures. Only one reported being satisfied—Kristen McQuillan, the parent of a kindergartner in Baltimore, where the public school system recently adopted an elementary literacy curriculum called Wit & Wisdom. Unlike the standard approach to literacy, which focuses on largely illusory comprehension skills and disjointed reading passages, Wit & Wisdom and a handful of other recently developed curricula immerse kids in engaging, meaty content……………………………………………