Going back to ‘normal’ won’t work

Going back to ‘normal’ won’t work

Adriana Villavicencio, UCI assistant professor of education, writes, “Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools were failing to adequately serve children of color. As a scholar of racial equity in K-12 education, I see an opportunity to go beyond getting students caught up. Rather than focus only on trying to close pandemic-related gaps, schools could seek to more substantially improve the quality of education they offer, particularly for students of color, if they want to achieve equitable and sustainable results.