 Dear reader,
We live in heartbreaking times. Since last week’s mass shooting of 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school, we’ve been asking ourselves familiar questions about how and why, and feeling outrage that such shootings have become a way of life in the United States.
“We ricochet from one tragedy to another: Covid, shootings, the war in Ukraine, more shootings … it feels so hard to catch a breath, let alone know how to fight for what matters,” Jennifer Eve Rich, an assistant professor in the College of Education at Rowan University who helps teachers talk with children about gun violence, told me.
But how to move forward after such an enormous tragedy? Words of strength come to us from Scarlett Lewis,
who lost her six-year-old son, Jesse, in the Sandy Hook shootings of 2012, and who believes giving students access to social and emotional learning in their classrooms could help save lives.
We would love to hear more ideas from our readers on this issue and others. This week we also have an interesting update from California on remedial education, as well as a look at how one university is giving second chances to adults who’ve dropped out. Finally, a reminder as we approach the end of the school year: Encourage others who care deeply about education to sign up for our weekly newsletters!
Liz Willen, Editor
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