WILMINGTON, Del. — Weeks into the school year at the Bayard School, five wiggly first graders were working with reading specialist Jodi Forestieri on recognizing the starting sounds of words. This story also appeared in AL.com and Post and Courier and The Christian Science Monitor and The Dallas Morning News and The Fresno Bee and […]
Category: The South
The coronavirus pandemic hit communities hard in the rural Deep South, where schools are already among the most ill-resourced in the nation, well-paying jobs are few and necessities like Wi-Fi, public transportation and medical insurance are often out of reach. The Hechinger Report is investigating these problems and covering resiliency and innovation in communities fighting back against an education system that has yet to eradicate systemic racism and white supremacy.
