Laura Ascione is the Editorial Director, Content Services at eSchool Media. She is a graduate of the University of Marylands prestigious Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

The choice of remote versus in-person knowing has essential ramifications. More than one-third of all U.S. school districts using some form of remote direction in early 2021 had actually shortened the school day, and a quarter had lowered training minutes.

About 42 percent of rural school districts in the U.S. provided completely in-person direction since February, compared to only 17 percent for city districts, according to a new RAND Corporation study of school district leaders. The opposite pattern held for completely remote knowing: 29 percent of city districts provided fully remote direction compared with 10 percent of rural districts and 18 percent of rural districts.

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” This survey reveals how the option of remote instruction has implications that extend beyond longstanding concerns about the lower quality of remote direction,” said Heather Schwartz, lead author of the report and director of the Pre-K to 12 educational systems program at RAND, a nonprofit research study company. “Rural districts– which were primarily fully in-person or hybrid– did not decrease training minutes as often as urban districts, which indicates that city trainees of color have most likely lost more training time this school year than their white equivalents in rural districts.”