The coronavirus closed schools. Our diseased politics is keeping them closed. Alexander Nazaryan
WASHINGTON The other day, I listened to my daughter’s first lesson of the day, which is conducted over a video feed, like every lesson of her day has been since last March. She sat in our dining room, at a relatively clean table where only a few remnants remained of the previous night’s dinner: a stray strand of spaghetti, a dusting of grated parmesan.
As a former public high school teacher in Brooklyn, I wanted to see if remote learning had improved since last spring, when it was widely considered to be a disaster. Back then it was just as widely believed that, come September, children would be back in the classroom, remote learning all but forgotten by the first frost.
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Biden makes tackling racial, ethnic inequities during coronavirus pandemic a priority
Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post
Dec. 15, 2020
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Sandy Brown, 60, of Flint, Mich., visits the bodies of her husband, Freddie Brown Jr., 59, and her son, Freddie Brown III, 20, both victims of covid-19, at Dodds-Dumanois Funeral Home in Flint on April 10.Photo by Brittany Greeson for The Washington Post.
Long before Yale researcher Marcella Nunez-Smith began to study racial inequities in health care, she lived them.
She grew up on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a place, she said, where people too often die too young from preventable conditions.
Adventist Schools, COVID-19, and the Big Government Bailout: Is the Funding in Jeopardy?
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For two years, schools in the Chesapeake Conference of Seventh-day Adventists received scholarship funds from the state of Maryland for low-income students. The funding, administered through the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today (BOOST) voucher program, helped disadvantaged families afford a private school education.
However, in 2019, the state launched an investigation into the written policies of private schools that received the allocations, eventually concluding that Adventist schools in the Chesapeake Conference were in violation of state guidelines prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.