We need to address the needs of students—and parents, and teachers. One size does not fit all, and race complicates the challenge.
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As Children Head Back to School, Partisan Politics Threatens Their Learning and Safety
Schools must model the true meaning of freedom in a democracy.
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Making Room for Children Vulnerable to COVID
The needs of immunocompromised and disabled children are being neglected as schools prepare to fully reopen in the fall.
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Why Reopening Schools Has Become the Most Fraught Debate of the Pandemic
Popular writers and academics have dismissed words of caution from epidemiologists about coronavirus transmission among children.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Back to School
Universities that lived by the market model during the boom years face an extinction event as the bubble bursts and their business model pushes them to make perverse decisions about campus opening.
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Unsanitized: Why Florida Teachers Are Suing the Governor
Also, the worst coronavirus relief idea yet. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for July 21, 2020.