The switch to online education has been a difficult adjustment for educational institutions across the country, but students are missing out on much more than in-class learning. Adam Laats, professor of education and history at Binghamton University, State University of New York, says that the coronavirus pandemic reveals how valuable schools are in developing students’ social experiences.
“This crisis is highlighting the durable nature of what education historians call the ‘grammar of schooling.’ For parents, students, teachers and school administrators, the challenge of sudden unplanned online education has demonstrated how much school does beyond merely delivering instructional content,” says Laats. “Schools function as the primary social institution in a lot of students’ lives, and that brings with it a host of unrecognized benefits and challenges. In short, suddenly being locked out of school makes it much clearer that school is more than just learning math, English, science and social studies.”
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