Time in this pandemic above near nearly 105,000. States are ordering people to stay home. A pivotal fda meeting tomorrow, 24 hours away, and Officials Say if the Pfizer Vaccine is approved then, it could be rolling out friday as friday of this week, with the first vaccinations just hours after that. We begin this hour in rhode island, where cases are now rising at the fastest rate of any state in the u. S. Alexandria field, outside a new hospital yesterday there, we see overflow, alexandra, tell us what youre seeing. Good morning, jim. This is a heavy burden for the state of rhode island, small state but densely populated one. Theyre fighting this surge in cases. The primary concern is, of course, the strain on hospitals across the state. They have stood up two field hospitals, including the one im standing in front of, Convention Center in providence. This is the largest of the states field hospitals. It has capacity for 600 beds. It doesnt have the staffing for that at this point. Do
Night school helping kindergarteners stay in school during pandemic
Posted at 2:42 PM, Jan 22, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-22 15:42:28-05
NEWARK, NJ. â When most students are getting ready for bed, these kids are logging on for kindergarten night school. When I tell people my son is in night school and what time his school starts, theyâre like, Night school? I didn t know they had that for kindergarten, said Kimberly Hyman, whose 6-year-old son, Ian, is in the evening learning program run by KIPP charter school in New Jersey.
Itâs a strategy thatâs helped grown-ups for years, and now, itâs helping the youngest students stay on track through the pandemic.
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It’s almost impossible for kindergarten students and first graders to learn remotely without adult supervision. But school and work start and end around the same time. It’s difficult for parents to oversee remote learning and do their jobs at the same time, even if they’re working from home.
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Educators have truly shown themselves as heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic, adapting to virtual learning, juggling the education and care of their own children, and staying on top of health restrictions and personal protective equipment requirements to keep themselves and their students safe. Now it seems like teachers are taking it one step further once again, signing on well after 3 p.m. to help their students.
I actually first heard about this trend from my sister, Heather Melms, a speech therapist at a fully remote elementary school in New Jersey. With both parents working full-time and a caretaker unable to help, one of her pre-K students couldn t participate in his online speech therapy during normal school hours. That s why my sister scheduled a weekly evening session with her student after his parents were done with work.