COVID’s long shadow: How pandemic schooling is reshaping the next generation of college students
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/covid-cohort-college-students-21309223.php
COVID’s long shadow: How pandemic schooling is reshaping the next generation of college students
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/covid-cohort-college-students-21309223.php
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The first post-pandemic college cohort is arriving with different academic, social, and mental health needs after years of disrupted schooling. As these students move into higher education and the workforce, how should teaching, assessment, and job training evolve?
Great question- it’s one I think about every day as a professor and a parent of a Bay Area high school senior…
We are expecting this cohort of teens to be “college ready” but are colleges ready for them?
Is college relevant in the same way it was a generation+ ago? Is it *potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt* relevant?
How can we meet the challenge? I have a lot of ideas, but they require optimism and a willingness to evolve.
You don’t go to college to be catered to, in fact that’s one of the most fundamental lessons that I learned about going to college. These students either need to adapt and get with the reality or they shouldn’t go to college.
Great article. I really feel for teachers, parents, young adults… they were faced with a world altering event and many were not supported. I think this pattern is evident in all grades today. First graders who were born in 2020 unable to behave normally or act out. High schoolers who don’t know how to socialize. I really feel for these young people who didn’t get the privilege of a normal childhood.