[ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and im driving into portales, new mexico, along the texas border and near the Cannon Air Force base. You know, the welcome sign here says it all 17,000 friendly people and three or four old grouches . Im here to meet a man whose strange inheritance certainly called for that kind of sense of humor. My name is john wall. My mother, irene wall, passed at 90 years old. She had left me with a very large collection that meant a lot to her, but i didnt know what to do. Great. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Welcome to my home. Well, so, what do think of all these dolls . Wow this is kind of the way it was in my moms house, only there were so many more. Johnny, i feel like im 8 years old again with all these dolls. Well, i have the reputation around here as the doll boy but i dont know anything about them. Looking around, you have earned that reputation. What are you going to do . The goal of my moms and mine was to find a
The fall. And include social distancing, hygiene measures and handwashing. Schools will attempt to maximize the number of School Events that can be held virtually. School lunches will be eaten in classrooms or out doors. Guidelines are meant to prioritize student safety. The guidelines are to help administrators and others put the right procedures in place to reopen. However, whether schools can move forward with reopening for in Person Instruction will depend on the containment of covid19 in the weeks and months to come. The guidance will allow all of our schools to plan effectively for the possibility of School Campuses offering and Person Instruction in the 2020 2021 school year to the greatest extent practical. The guidelines do not allow electives and Extracurricular Activities in which social distancing and face coverings cannot be maintained at all times. This includes choir, band, and cheerleading. The announcement from Santa Clara County comes after a National Organization of
Rising cases. We cant just focus on those areas having the surge. He was the entire country at risk. We are having 40 thousand new cases and they and i would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around. There was some encouraging news on the search for a vaccine. The United States will start at 30,000 person trial next month. Health and School Officials have released a set of guidelines for the safe reopening of schools in the fall. This includes procedures for social distancing, hygiene measures that include handwashing and schools will maximize School Events that can be held virtually or outdoors on School Lunches will be eaten in classrooms or outside. The guidelines are meant to prioritize the safety of students. They are intended to help administrators and others but necessary structures and procedures in place to be ready to reopen. However, whether schools can move forward with reopening for in Person Instruction will depend on the containment of c
Environment issues during this time. Madeline levine, phd, has long been a leading voice in thinking about wellbeing and anxiety in use today and has a new book out, ready or not, preparig our kids are really uncertain future. Fn Christine Carter is also a leading voice in the science of happiness for children and its application with a wonderful new book out called the new adolescence. Thank you all for joining me and joining this conversation. This is such an extraordinary time, really transformative and transcended and i mean, everybody sees you and your ligaments and the want to take stock of her of you guys are. How is it going right now for you guys during this covid19 anthemic . Interesting how we start to look upon our life in a new way. Trysting, how about you . Its been humbling. My life has changed quite a lot and things about have been really wonderful. I have all four of my kids home and three out of the four of them were away at school, so they are back and thats wonderfu
Katherine bentoncohen on the progressive era. Our goal today is to think about what progressivism was, and to think about what i think its core dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds believes was important, and they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see ways that they were fundamentally at some tension. Throughout class think about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century is what is progressivism. A famous article that came in and out 1982 was titled in search of progressivism. They knew it existed but quibbling about what counted, what it started, when it ended. Some people were limited only to the Political Party where it was named and others define it more broadly. For me in this class this is howly define progressivism. In the broadest sense, it was the way a whole generation of americans defined themselves polit