Media mention: Two faculty members suggest teaching kids how to simply "be"

Stephanie Jones and Hilary Hughes, professors in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice and co-directors of the Red Clay Writing Project, discuss how parents, teachers, and professors are adapting their approach to education amid COVID-19.

There is no shortcut in transforming face-to-face teaching and learning into homeschooling, online learning, or distance learning. Rather, education as we know it has changed into COVID-19 teaching and learning for the foreseeable future, according to Jones.

“What we see is our educational system decompressing,” she said. “A lot of people have believed that the purpose of education is to have good test scores. Right now, we are being put to a test we are not prepared for. But, we get a chance to sit back and think about what the most important thing we need to be doing now.”

Listen to the full interview on WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston’s NPR news station.