27 April

John Hattie is probably the world's leading expert on evidence-based education. Like 'economies', student results actually tend to improve after a crisis like this, even if they miss months of school with no online learning. Time for the 'get the kids back in school' alarmists to butt out I think. Socially it's very disruptive, for sure, but that's not an education issue. There are temporary solutions for those social problems. Christchurch and others survived, and actually thrived.