In Arne Duncan’s and Rey Saldana’s opinion piece, “Coronavirus Has Changed School Forever, Let’s Make It
an Improvement,” they argue that “[i]t’s time to re-imagine public education not just to face the pandemic, but to
eliminate racial and economic inequities we’ve long known about.” They envision four possible and critical
changes: the school calendar, personalizing education, competency matters (not seat time), or supporting
students’ non-academic needs. Research one they mention, or one you feel school districts need to adopt, and
write an essay arguing for that change. Use research and strong examples to support your argument. No
personal examples.
Include the sources below:
Annotated Bibliography: Education in 2020
Duncan, A. and Saldana, R., 2020. In The Time Of COVID-19 And Protests: We Need To Change Schools.
[online] usatoday. Available at: [Accessed 15 September 2020].
This article gives us an overview of many aspects involving the changes of attending school during the
pandemic. Arne Duncan and Rey Saldana argue to reimagine the public education not just to face the
pandemic, but to eliminate racial and economic inequities we have long known about. They envision four
possible and critical changes: the school calendar, personalizing education, competency matters, or supporting
students’ nonacademic needs. Arne Duncan is managing partner at Chicago CRED, a nonprofit that connects
young men to jobs and opportunity, and the author of “How Schools Work. I will be able to support my
argument that supporting a students’ nonacademic needs could help a student get through the crisis’ in 2020.
McShane, M., 2020. Off-Campus Login. [online] Go-gale-com.delmar.idm.oclc.org. Available at: [Accessed 15
September 2020].
This article is very specific in the information it entails, which demonstrates the difficulties that many students
have during school days. The article shows how valuable nonprofit organizations like Communities in Schools
is for students. Research on their effectiveness reveals an open question: while integrated supports may help
meet students’ physical and emotional needs, their ability to improve student learning remains unproven.
Researchers and practitioners have made “critical correlations” between key elements of integrated student
supports, such as student engagement and student learning, for example, and between self-regulation and
academic success, says Brooke Stafford-Brizard, a director at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. And yet when
everything comes together, the result underwhelms. The findings in this article help support my claim that
supporting a child’s nonacademic needs may not help a student academically but is still valuable to the students
and students’ families.
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