David Zweig

1 month ago | aei.org | Nat Malkus |Sam Hollon |David Zweig |Frederick M. Hess

Op-Ed The Pandemic Is Over. It’s Time for Schools to Get the Message. Podcast American Enterprise Institute Pandemic School Closures, Five Years Later (with David Zweig) Op-Ed And You Thought AERA Couldn’t Get Any More Vacuous?

1 month ago | aei.org | Nat Malkus |David Zweig

Five years ago, schools shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic. Schooling was remote for the rest of the year, and many schools would remain remote for much of the following year. Europe took a different approach. In many European countries, schools reopened that first pandemic spring, only weeks after closing. Schools, officials determined, were safe to reopen. So: Why did American schools stay closed so long? Why did America not follow Europe’s lead?

2 months ago | aei.org | David Zweig |Frederick M. Hess |Stan Veuger |Pia Orrenius

Five years later, many agree that America’s education system failed during the pandemic. Prolonged school closures and subpar remote learning led to devastating academic losses, rising chronic absenteeism, and a breakdown in parents’ trust in the education system. But why did schools remain closed for so long? Why did so many embrace what some have called “COVID theater”—implementing masking mandates and other ineffective measures?

2 months ago | audible.com | David Zweig |Andrew Klavan |Casey Sherman |Susan Hendricks

How could this have happened in the United States? Is it even humanly possible that this young woman could have so brutally and with such unimaginable Herculean force fatally stabbed herself more than twenty times? Beautiful, accomplished, and beloved, Ellen Greenberg was a vivacious and affectionate teacher of young children she adored. Always upbeat, she deeply loved her family and friends, and especially her fiancée, Sam Goldberg, with whom she was planning a wedding.

Jul 9, 2023 | silentlunch.net | David Zweig