Should Schools Be Giving So Many Failing Grades This Year?, Education Week, December 11, 2020

From coast to coast, school districts that have primarily served students via remote learning are seeing dramatic increases in the number of failing or near-failing grades on students’ quarterly report cards and progress reports.

Schools confront ‘off the rails’ numbers of failing grades, AP News, December 6, 2020

Disruptions to daily life during the pandemic, anxiety about contracting Covid-19 and social isolation are all taking a toll on children's mental health, a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests.

Remote learning increases failing grades by 83 percent in Fairfax County, study finds, FOX5DC, November 24, 2020

It has been almost 10 months since Covid-19 began battering families in the United States, putting parents out of work, shrouding their homes in grief and loss, and shutting children out of the schools that taught and cared for them.