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 I have been a teacher for almost 30 years, and I have never faced a disruptive effect brought to the classroom as much as Covid from 2020 . There has been so much debate, vitriolic and adjustment for students, teachers and even concerned parents. Nothing in the teaching playbook has prepared me to face Covid. Thus, as the world starts to get ready that Covid takes the status of an endemic, rather than a pandemic, I have 10 classroom exercises for all teachers to use as possible discussion. Please note that some questions are centred around artificial intelligence (AI), inequality and sustainability issues too. Lastly, I have created these questions for the benefit of teachers. Here they are: Question 1: Can you provide to ways in which you can design your own custom-made reusable cloth mask to show your individuality? Question 2: How can you change the background of your zoom profile so that the zoom-instructor knows that you have prepared for your subject? Question 3: There is a...

 Growing awareness that the current U.S. K-12 education system is producing woeful results and that incrementalist strategies for reforming it ( smaller classes , added graduation requirements, etc.) haven't made much difference. Bolder alternatives - including some that overturn yesterday's axioms and power relationships - are now thinkable. Widening recognition that " one size fits all " education does not work very well in our pluralistic democracy. As people have demanded additional options, new types of schools have come into existence along with new ways of enabling families to choose among them. Not only do some of those novel schools better suit America's varied educational needs, but the marketplace of parental choice also helps to hold them accountable for student achievement. Such reasoning, of course, is familiar from the old voucher debate, but it's no longer just the stuff of argument. People who want to leave the decaying and crowded public-scho...

 There is growing evidence that more families would opt for different schools if they could. This is clear from survey data and focus groups, from alternative-school and charter-school waiting lists, among many examples. What prevents them from sailing to a new education island is, above all, the political blockade that still seals the ports to all but a few lucky or intrepid voyagers. Visible though the new education islands and vessels may be to avid policy explorers, most people still reside on the two old continents - and don't travel much. The reasons are familiar, beginning with old-fashioned complacency about one's own school. Surveys have long shown a relatively high level of contentment - or resignation - among Americans with children in school. The familiar and nearby are often more comfortable than the distant and strange. Many interests are deeply vested in the status quo: teacher unions, textbook publishers, school board associations, colleges of education and ad...