Do children need longer days or a longer school year to catch up what they have “lost” during lockdowns? This post on the AEL blog takes part into the debate

“7 years from now …“? Are you kidding me? This was my very spontaneous reaction when last week I read an article on Bloomberg about the end of the pandemic.  Bloomberg has predicted that the pandemic will end in 7 years at the current vaccination rate in the world! (read here the article published on

Today -15th January- is the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings’ birth. Since 1970, two years after his assassination, some states began to celebrate the anniversary of his birth and it was President Ronald Reagan who in November 1983 signed a law to issue the third Monday of January as a national holiday in honour of Martin Luther King. Inspired by this action…