The Results Are In for Remote Learning: It Didn't Work
The pandemic forced schools into a crash course in online education. Problems piled up quickly. ‘I find it hectic and stressful’
Lucia Curatolo-Boylan supervises the online schooling of her four children, ages 4 to 10, in Staten Island, N.Y. / Credit: Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street Journal
This spring, America took an involuntary crash course in remote learning. With the school year now winding down, the grade from students, teachers, parents and administrators is already in: It was a failure.
School districts closed campuses in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic and, with practically no time at all for planning or training, launched a grand experiment to educate more than 50 million students from kindergarten through 12th grade using technology.