바이든 미국 대통령, "이제는 학교를 정상화 할 시간"
바이든 미국 대통령은 24일 미국의 교육계 지도자들과 학교 교사들에게 보낸 메시지에서 이제 학교를 정상적으로 열어야 할 때가 왔다"고 말했다.
그는 이를 위해 각 주들은 필요한 자원들을 투입하라고 말했다
많은 한국 학부모들이 오는 8월 이후 미국 고등학교와 대학교들이 정상화될 것인가에 대해 의문을 제기하며 필자에게 가을 학기에 아이를 미국에 보내야할 지 걱정을 표했다. 이에 필자는 미국 대학과 고등학교들이 정상화될 것이라고 확신을 한다. 미국은 8월 이전에 16세 이상 모든 학생들까지 백신을 보급할 예정이다.
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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HAD a message for the country's educators and school leaders on Wednesday: You have the vaccines, you have guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about how to reopen safely, and now you have the money. Get moving and reopen schools for in-person learning.
"I need states to move quickly to get these resources down to the school districts and put them to work," Biden said.
"My message is: Help is here," he said. "Help is here for schools to purchase PPE, hire additional personnel, like nurses, counselors, custodial staff, improve ventilation, sanitation, avoid educator layoffs and give students extra support. Help is here to help students make up for lost time and lost learning. Unless we act quickly, this pandemic could have a devastating long-term impact on our kids who have gone through this, including on their mental health."
The president's marching orders were included in a pre-recorded video that played during the Education Department's National Safe School Reopening Summit, which brought together educators, school leaders, public health experts and students to share best practices for how to effectively reopen schools for in-person learning, how to implement the CDC's risk mitigation guidance and how to begin to course correct the academic, social and emotional learning loss incurred by students during a year of interrupted education.
Biden's remarks come as the first batch of federal data is released examining how students are receiving education – a data dump that revealed deep racial disparities that were even more pronounced than some initially believed.
As of January, more than half of all Black, Hispanic and Asian fourth-graders were learning in a fully remote environment, the data shows. By comparison, a quarter of white students were learning fully remotely, and instead nearly half of white students were learning in person, full time. And for those learning remotely – the majority of whom were students of color – many were receiving two hours or less of live instruction. In fact, 5% of fourth graders and 10% of eighth graders were receiving no live instruction whatsoever in their remote learning.
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미국대학 미국유학 아이비리그 미국대학장학금 미국주립대학장학금 미국대학편입 미국대학편입장학금 하버드대학편입 하버드대학장학금 미국고등학교유학 미국조기유학 미국보딩스쿨 미국보딩스쿨장학금 미국교환학생 미국크리스찬스쿨 독일유학
