Opinion | How Overseas Work with Refugees Can Inform Emergency Education Measures in the U.S. during Coronavirus
25 May 2020
In this opinion piece published in The Hechinger Report, REACH founder and director Sarah Dryden-Peterson shares lessons learned from her own work with displaced refugees and people in settings of conflict that can help policymakers, educators, and researchers plan for a future of learning and uncertainty during Covid-19.
“Education for uncertainty is also, at its core, education for belonging.”
With almost every child across the United States out of school due to the coronavirus, schools are shifting their thinking from stop-gap measures to the future of learning. The current scale of school disruptions, both nationally and globally, is unprecedented—yet the nature of them is not.
Read the full Op-Ed here.