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Podcast: All of the Above Podcast
Episode: Educators Need Relief, Not More Pressure - Passing Period #49
Description: This Week: The LA Times drops a bombshell article highlighting the negative effects of the pandemic on test scores and grades, and a clickbait headline that LA’s students “need help now.” Surprise, surprise, the pandemic wasn’t good for the city’s most marginalized kids and communities, right? We went into this year talking a big game about “reinventing” and “reimagining” education, but didn’t move any of the goal posts. Same rules, same structures, same accountabilities in place, and very limited space to address the real needs of kids and educators alike. Manuel and Jeff discuss the meaning of it all.<...