Plus, the genuinely difficult debate over schools. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for September 29, 2020.
Education in America
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Grad Student Strike at Michigan the First Pandemic Pushback on Campus
Plus, Louis DeJoy in campaign finance trouble. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for September 8, 2020.
Posted inWorking in America
Anti-Union Progressives
In recent years, a number of institutions that proclaim themselves committed to social justice and enlightenment won’t let their employees unionize.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Student Loan Giant Navient Reaps Backdoor Federal Reserve Subsidy
Securities based on the student loans Navient owns are eligible for purchase through a Fed rescue program. Already $218 million has been scooped up.
Posted inCoronavirus
Professors Speak Out About College Reopenings Amid Coronavirus
As campuses reopen and then close, faculty express concern about lack of safety protections and blame-shifting to students.
Posted inCoronavirus
Uninformed Consent
Major universities keep putting students at needless risk, and then reversing course. Higher ed is in a tough spot, but that’s no excuse for dumb decisions and bad ethics.
Posted inCoronavirus
The Summer of Magical Thinking
How some of the nation’s most prestigious universities planned fall openings based on fantastical assumptions about the pandemic—and then abjectly reversed course
Posted inEducation in America
Ed Tech Cashes In on the Pandemic
As schools go virtual, digital learning threatens to replace teachers and deprive students of a real education.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Randi Weingarten On What It Would Take to Make Schools Safe
Plus, Congressional maneuvering. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for August 5, 2020.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Student Voting Mess
If you think voter registration in a pandemic is a challenge generally, consider the special case of college students who have no idea where they will be living in September.
