Open letter to the incoming Biden administration on Next Generation Community Schools

Rebecca Winthrop, Brookings Institute |

We recommend the scaling of community schools as a central strategy in both the recovery from COVID-19 and in building back better and more inclusive school systems. The unprecedented impact of COVID-19 on our students, families, and communities requires a powerful response. We must seize the moment and emerge from the pandemic with a new and better way of schooling—one that meets student and family needs and addresses systemic failures to provide equitable educational opportunities for all.

Rebecca Winthrop

Rebecca Winthrop is a senior fellow and co-director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on education globally, with special attention to the skills young people need to thrive in work, life, and as constructive citizens.

Open letter to the incoming Biden administration on Next Generation Community Schools

The taskforce on Next Generation Community Schools shares recommendations with the incoming administration on how to create healthy rural, suburban, and urban communities where everyone fully belongs.