Immediate Needs to Address Remote Learning Inequity for Students The Washington-based Technology Alliance releases new recommendations as part of comprehensive report
February 02, 2021 14:39 ET | Source: Technology Alliance Technology Alliance Seattle, Washington, UNITED STATES
Seattle, WA, Feb. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Today the Technology Alliance released a groundbreaking report on the remote learning challenges facing students across the country and recommendations to best address them. In the fall of 2020, the alliance formed The Remote Learning Task Force including a diverse group of Washington state education, business and government leaders to explore problems arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. In preparing the report “Learning During Calamity” the Task Force recognized that instead of just preparing for the next pandemic, the shortfalls they discovered should be addressed immediately to
Don t let them steal our history
Mon, 01/25/2021
By Jean Godden
In 1991 when Ron Chew, an International District institution, wanted to learn about his family s hidden history, he was able to retrieve his grandfather s nearly century-old immigration papers from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Seattle.
Those papers were filed along with many tantalizing details, referencing people and places in his granddad, Chew Quay Fong s life. From those records, Ron Chew learned that Quay Fong, only son of Chew Jung Man and his wife Chin, was born in 1877 in the village of Fow Seck in China s Hoisan District.
His granddad arrived in Seattle on April 15, 1911, petitioning to enter as a returning citizen, born on Occidental Avenue in Pioneer Square. This falsehood, memorized from coaching papers, was a necessary fiction for entry due to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in response to anti-Chinese fervor of the time.
China said it hoped Joe Biden would “be successful in governing” and called for unity in a bid to reset relations with the U.S., the day after leveling last-minute sanctions on members of the outgoing Trump administration as the new U.S. president was sworn in.
January 20, 2021
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Today is Thursday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2021. There are 344 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. reported its first known case of the new virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who had returned the previous week from the outbreak’s epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle; U.S. officials stressed that they believed the overall risk of the virus to the American public remained low.
On this date:
In 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
In 1915, the first Kiwanis Club, dedicated to community service, was founded in Detroit.
UPI Almanac for Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021
On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. CDC confirmed the United States first known case of novel coronavirus what would later come to be known as COVID-19.
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A woman wears a mask covering her mouth and nose while walking through the subway on January 27, 2020, in New York City, less than one week after the first reported case of coronavirus in the United States. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
John Mcenroe plays an exhibition doubles match at the opening of Wimbledon’s new No.1 court on May 19. On January 21, 1990, McEnroe became the first player to be disqualified from the Australian Open after an outburst in which he broke his racquet. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo