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INTRODUCTION: The Urgency of Now: Michigan’s Educational Recovery  \nII. POLL FINDINGS: Poll of Michigan Parents Demonstrates Shortcomings and Inequities in Remote Learning Amid Pandemic  \nIII. RECOMMENDATIONS:  \na. Fair Investment  \nb. Honest Information, Transparency and Public Reporting  \nc. Extended and Expanded Learning Time  \nd. Quality Virtual Instruction and Access  \ne. Inclusivity and Socioemotional Supports  \nf. Transitions to Postsecondary Opportunities  \nIV. INDICATORS  \nIn 2015, The Education Trust-Midwest launched the Michigan Achieves! campaign to make Michigan a top ten education state by 2030. Since then, a growing number of partners around the state have come together to advance the best practices and strategies from leading education states in order to close achievement gaps and ensure every Michigan student is learning—and being taught—at high levels. [Join the movement at www.michiganachieves.com](Join the movement at www.michiganachieves.com).  \n2  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThe Urgency of Now: Michigan’s Educational Recovery  \nAs our state and nation continue to grapple with  \nthe ongoing, devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it could be easy to suggest forgoing the long vision to improve Michigan public education in favor of addressing urgent crises.  \nBut that would be a travesty for our state’s children. Instead, as an organization that has championed an equitable education for all Michigan students for the last decade, we urge our state leaders to immediately accelerate efforts to reimagine public education and implement critical measures that support the continuation and recovery of student learning, especially to ensure that the most underserved students do not face incalculable harm.  \nFindings from a new poll of Michigan parents underscore the urgent need to invest in education and prioritize underserved students, particularly students of color, low-income students, English learners and students with disabilities. This is especially critical now following the mass school closures and pivot to remote instruction amid the pandemic.  \nThe poll, conducted by New York-based Global Strategy Group, found that nearly half of Michigan parents say that the quality of teaching and instruction their children receive is worse amid the crisis, which threatens to compound Michigan’s longstanding lackluster progress in raising student achievement. Just over a third of all parents rate remote learning as successful or extremely successful.  \nAlarmingly, the polling suggests that the opportunity gap that already exists in our state for underserved students may grow even wider, especially as parents of color are  \nmore likely to indicate their child is participating in fulltime remote learning.  \nAdditionally, the vast majority of all parents, but particularly Black parents and parents of color, expressed concern about their child falling behind academically, with 91 percent of Black parents and parents of color and 83 percent of White parents reporting concerns.  \nThe full results are on page 6.  \nFurthermore, parents say they are not getting the information they need to know whether their children are falling behind academically: nearly half (47%) of all parents polled indicated they have received little or no information from their child’s school about whether their child is suffering from learning loss or has fallen behind grade-level expectations as a result of schools being closed due to the pandemic last spring. Parents overwhelmingly agree that state leaders should have a plan to address learning loss and make sure students catch up to their current grade level.  \nThese concerns of Michigan parents build on troubling findings about interrupted learning here in Mic","cbCaiplKqMxKyKUl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiplKqMxKyKUl","pdf",4063169,65,"English","# Introduction: The Urgency of Now: Michigan’s Educational Recovery\n# Poll Findings: Poll of Michigan Parents Demonstrates Shortcomings and Inequities in Remote Learning Amid Pandemic\n# Recommendations\n## Fair Investment\n## Honest Information, Transparency and Public Reporting\n## Extended and Expanded Learning Time\n## Quality Virtual Instruction and Access\n## Inclusivity and Socioemotional Supports\n## Transitions to Postsecondary Opportunities\n# Indicators","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the report focus on in Michigan’s education during and after the pandemic?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on how COVID-19-related school closures and remote instruction have disrupted learning, widened inequities, and threatened students’ recovery—especially for underserved groups.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the Michigan parent poll results indicate?\",\"answer\":\"Nearly half of Michigan parents report that teaching and instruction quality is worse amid the crisis, while just over a third rate remote learning as successful or extremely successful.\"},{\"question\":\"What key recommendations does the report propose?\",\"answer\":\"It recommends fair investment, transparent public reporting, extended learning time, quality virtual instruction with access, inclusivity with socioemotional supports, and transitions to postsecondary opportunities.\"}]","The Urgency of Now - Michigan’s Educational Recovery | PDF",1792047952,164]