March Madness
Credit.Alex Eben Meyer
March 17, 2021
Will you be watching the N.C.A.A. Division I men’s basketball tournament that begins this week? Do you think the N.C.A.A. can pull it off without a public health crisis? Do you think the tournament should happen at all this year?
Here is a little context about what is at stake:
The decision to pull 68 teams from across the country into a tournament in Indiana will have enormous repercussions for college sports. A successful men’s tournament, as well as a smooth women’s tournament in Texas, would lift the morale and finances of an industry that the pandemic has left in a precarious position. The N.C.A.A. lost nearly $56 million in its most recent fiscal year, primarily because the 2020 men’s tournament was not held.
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Detroit Service Learning Academy Celebrates Learn & Serve Challenge Kick Off
Contact: Chawn Greene-Farmer
Detroit, Michigan - Today, Michigan Community Service Commission Executive Director, Paula Kaiser VanDam, was on hand to recognize the 3
rd Annual 2009 National Learn & Serve Challenge at Detroit s Service Learning Academy (DLSA). VanDam will join 250 students in a kick off celebration at the DLSA at 3:00 p.m. During the celebration, she will present a proclamation from Governor Jennifer M. Granholm recognizing Learn & Serve Challenge Kick Off.
Service learning provides an opportunity to learn and reinforce academics while addressing community needs, said VanDam. This type of unique programming is a perfect way to build a foundation of civic engagement to provide students relevant and important learning experiences.
NYT publishes Mira Costa students political themed pandemic Legos
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by Kevin Cody
In anticipation of the one year anniversary of the pandemic, the New York Times posed the question on its Learning Network, “What has it been like to be a teenager during the first year of a historic pandemic?”
The newspaper received over 5,500 responses. On March 7, one year from the day the World Health Organization declared the world was in a pandemic, the Times published a dozen of the responses.
Among the entries chosen for publication was Mira Costa sophomore Maddox Chen’s commentary on Presidential politics, done with Legos. Chen submitted the following note along with his Lego photo:
A child benefit plan in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill would give monthly checks to families with children. Do you think this plan should become permanent?
Teens on a Year That Changed Everything
In words, images and video, teens across the United States show us how they have met life s challenges in the midst of a pandemic.
March 7, 2021
What has it been like to be a teenager during the first year of a historic pandemic?
The New York Times, through its Learning Network, asked the question, and more than 5,500 responses poured in.
In words and images, audio and video, they reported that it was, in many ways, a generation-defining disaster. Being trapped inside and missing the milestones that ordinarily mark coming of age in America was lonely, disorienting, depressing and even suffocating.