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Biden Administration Launches National Effort to Support Student Success

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• The plan includes
  • Launching the National Partnership for Student Success and recruiting 250,000 new tutors and mentors.
  • Expanding the Department鈥檚 Best Practices Clearinghouse to share best practices around academic and mental health recovery efforts.
  • Empowering parents and school communities with knowledge about how their school is using and can use federal funds to provide the necessary academic and mental health supports.
  • Tracking progress in providing additional learning opportunities: The Institute for Education Sciences will use monthly surveys to track schools鈥� continued progress in providing summer learning and enrichment, tutoring and afterschool supports.
• White House Toolkit: .

The Big Three 鈥� July 8, 2022

Study: Masks in School Had 鈥楲imited to No鈥� Impact on Student COVID Cases

• of a 鈥渘atural experiment of neighboring K-12 districts in North Dakota鈥�
• “We observed no significant difference between student case rates while the districts had differing masking policies nor while they had the same mask policies.”
• “Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature which suggests school-based mask mandates have limited to no impact on the case rates of COVID-19 among K-12 students.”

6 Things We’ve Learned About How COVID Disrupted Learning

• 鈥淪tudents learned less when they were remote.鈥�
• 鈥淪tudents at high-poverty schools were hit hardest.鈥�
• 鈥淒ifferent states saw different gaps.鈥�
• 鈥淗igh school graduation rates didn’t change much.鈥�
• 鈥淢any high school grads chose to delay college.鈥�
• 鈥淪chools can do something about it.鈥�

Pandemic Negatively Affected Students’ Math Achievement

• Researchers at Georgia Policy Labs . 
• Three big findings:
  • 鈥淭he impact of the pandemic on student achievement growth has been greater in math than in reading.鈥�
  • 鈥淪tudents who were in elementary school when the pandemic hit have fared worse than students who were in middle school.鈥�
  • 鈥淢any students have started to recover academically, but improvement is uneven.鈥�

Federal Updates

U.S. Buys 105 Million Pfizer COVID Vaccine Doses for Fall Campaign

• “The $3.2 billion deal announced by the Biden administration comes as federal scientists consider how to update the vaccines to better protect Americans from the rapidly evolving virus. , including a mix of doses for both adults and children.”

Pharmacists Can Now Prescribe Pfizer鈥檚 COVID-19 Pill

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• “The FDA said pharmacists can begin screening patients to see if they are eligible for Paxlovid and then prescribe the medication, which has been shown to curb the worst effects of COVID-19. Previously only physicians could prescribe the antiviral drug.”
• 鈥� 鈥楽ince Paxlovid must be taken within five days after symptoms begin, authorizing state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid could expand access to timely treatment,鈥� FDA drug center director Patrizia Cavazzoni said in a statement.”

City & State News

New York  

• New York City is .

California

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• “The ruling, however, has no immediate effect within the L.A. Unified School District, because the district in May postponed its mandate until at least July 2023 鈥� a move that aligned with the state decision to pause its own school vaccine requirement until then.”

Maryland

• The Maryland State Department of Education the of school spending of federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund pandemic resources. 

Michigan

• The Dearborn Public Schools Board of Education.
  

North Carolina  

• The state Department of Public Instruction and the NC Collaboratory, a policy research center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are and the evaluation of existing policies and programs aimed at overcoming those challenges.
• All UNC System to help students get ahead.

Tennessee

• “ and not promoted to the third grade under a new policy aimed at increasing literacy skills for students.”

COVID-19 Research

An Under-5 Vaccine Decision Framework

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• 鈥淢y focus in this post is not on convincing people to vaccinate. Instead, I want to help people navigate the details of their vaccine planning in a way that works for them.鈥�

FDA Recommends Inclusion of Omicron BA.4/5 Component for COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses

• : “Following the vote, and striving to use the best available scientific evidence, we have advised manufacturers seeking to update their COVID-19 vaccines that they should develop modified vaccines that add an omicron BA.4/5 spike protein component to the current vaccine composition to create a two component (bivalent) booster vaccine, so that the modified vaccines can potentially be used starting in early to mid-fall 2022.”
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Survey Quantifies COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Californians

• “The survey also found that of Californians who are either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, 41% haven’t gotten the vaccine because they believe it was developed too quickly and 30% said that they believe the vaccine is unnecessary.”
• “Only 12.1% of California adults turned to government agencies for their COVID-19 information. The most common resources were television (cited by 32.9% of respondents) and social media (19%).” About 21% of individuals with a graduate degree turn to government agencies for information vs. just 5.7% of those with less than a high school degree.
• Unvaccinated adults were twice as likely to report that they get their COVID-19 information from social media.

Elmo Receives His Vaccine

• Sesame Workshop, in collaboration with the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative’s COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative launched a   ()

It's okay to have questions about COVID-19 vaccines for children! Elmo's dad Louie talked to their pediatrician, and learned that Elmo getting vaccinated is the best way to keep him and his whole neighborhood safe and healthy!

— Sesame Street (@sesamestreet)

Viewpoints

6 Insights on Teaching Shortages

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• 鈥淭he pandemic is affecting teachers鈥� mental health and job satisfaction.鈥�
• 鈥淭eachers have uneven, and sometimes unexpected, workloads.鈥�
• 鈥淭he use of virtual teachers to combat the shortage has its pros and cons.鈥�
• 鈥淭eaching needs to be recast in more positive terms.鈥�
• 鈥淧rincipals are key.鈥�
• 鈥淭here is still hope when it comes to recruiting and retaining teachers.鈥�

Why We Vaccinate Kids for COVID

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• “Given the likely cumulative effects of vaccination on reinfection, the benefits of diminished illness and fewer severe outcomes will grow in contrast to the front-loaded costs of vaccination.”
• “Pediatric COVID vaccines can save lives, prevent severe disease, lessen symptoms for millions, are effective relative to other interventions, and may even pay for themselves. Knowing there is a moderate but positive effect on health we should agree and move forward, unless someone has a better way to spend the money. Kids fall needlessly through the cracks of our indecision.”

The CDC Is Breaking Trust in Childhood Vaccination

• Tracy H酶eg and Leslie Bienen in .
• 鈥淓ven in the already troubled context of the last two years, the CDC鈥檚 unqualified recommendation to vaccinate every young child against COVID may further contribute to the profound chasm of trust between U.S. citizens and their public health agencies.鈥�

…And on a Lighter Note

Absolute Chaos

• You have to to see everything. Like the coach getting hit in the shin. The kid getting hit in the head at the 0:10 mark. Another kid checking out his glove the whole time and missing all the action. 

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1541648526618202112

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