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ANN ARBOR—Students head back to in-person education across the country, some this month, amid questions about health and safety, learning loss and educational disparities caused by a COVID-19 pandemic year. University of Michigan education and health experts can address these and other back-to-school issues.

ADJUSTMENTS FOR CHILDREN

Christina Weiland is an associate professor at the School of Education, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School of Public Policy. Her areas of focus include early education and educators, preschool and kindergarten. She is particularly interested in the active ingredients that drive children’s gains in successful, at-scale public preschool programs.

“The early education sector was in a fragile state before the COVID-19 crisis and has suffered greatly over the last 20 months. Now with the Delta variant, early educators and families are faced with even more uncertainty and stress heading into fall,” she said. “Recovery is going to require finally building the early education infrastructure the U.S. has so long neglected. How resources earmarked for recovery efforts are spent is going to have an enormous impact on who bounces back from the crisis this school year and who falls further behind.”

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