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District gears up to help students cope with COVID-19

District gears up to help students cope with COVID-19

by Megan Sauer | Aug 19, 2020 | Coronavirus, Education, Featured

The City School District of Albany relies on grants, partnerships and parents’ personal health care to maintain their school-based health centers in three of their middle schools — but Superintendent Kaweeda Adams anticipates an increase in demand while their K-12...
Italy will reopen schools next month, but first it needs 3 million new desks

Italy will reopen schools next month, but first it needs 3 million new desks

by Silvia Martelli | Aug 17, 2020 | Coronavirus, Education, Featured

Italian schools are set to reopen on Sept. 14, but only if 2.6 million single-seat desks are built within the next month to allow the social distancing that the traditional two-person desks in classrooms make impossible. Reopening schools is seen as a crucial step...
Does the CARES Act Present a Funding Threat to Higher Education?

Does the CARES Act Present a Funding Threat to Higher Education?

by Amy Sokolow, Danyella Wilder and Yun Hao | Aug 5, 2020 | Education, Featured

? For-profit colleges accounted for 71 of the 100 schools that received the most emergency grant funding per student from the CARES Act, as shown by an analysis of Education Department data by students at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University....
Under ICE rules and visa complications, a semester with no new international students awaits

Under ICE rules and visa complications, a semester with no new international students awaits

by Henry Ren and Xurui Tan | Jul 30, 2020 | Education, Featured

Raven Liu always thought that she had a chance, however slim it was, to travel from Beijing to the University of Southern California to attend her first semester in person, even during a pandemic. “It’s meaningless to learn online because I study film production,” the...
Parents want to know how children identify their gender, national survey finds

Parents want to know how children identify their gender, national survey finds

by Hannah Farrow | Jul 24, 2020 | Education, Featured

How to teach gender identity in schools — if at all — remains a conversation among community members and district administrators across the country. In Pasco County, an organization called Protect Pasco Children claims parents’ rights and family values are being...
The 1619 Project curriculum taught in over 4,500 schools — Frederick County Public Schools has the option

The 1619 Project curriculum taught in over 4,500 schools — Frederick County Public Schools has the option

by Hannah Farrow | Jul 21, 2020 | Education, Featured

Imagine a high school classroom where the history teacher asks the students how societal structures continue to support the enslavement of Black people. Then the conversation continues to dissect the role of slaves in the development of America, abandoning the...
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