Fixating on Pandemic “Learning Loss” Undermines the Need to Transform

Maxine McKinney de Royston and Shirin Vossoughi co-authored an op-ed with Truthout, “Fixating on Pandemic ‘Learning Loss’ Undermines the Need to Transform Education”. The authors call for the need to redefine the purposes and the practices of education and the necessity to challenge the “learning loss” narrative along with other harmful educational myths that especially plague marginalized communities. “Systemic change requires that youth, families, and educators collectively serve as decision makers and designers of educational possibility.”