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Pandemic Learning Loss Is Exacerbating Existing Racial And Economic Inequities In Education
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Housing sales have soared in Texas, and some may wonder how it compares other real estate booms and bubbles of the past, including the one in California more than a decade ago that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
Luis Torres, a research economist at Texas A&M University’s Texas Real Estate Research Center, told Texas Standard there are a few distinctions between the current Texas boom and what happened in California in the mid-2000s.
First of all, mortgage lenders’ practices were unique during the California real estate bubble, and they significantly contributed to the credit crisis that destabilized the financial system.
/ AISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde visits a classroom on the campus of LBJ Early College High School in October 2020.
Many parents and educators are grappling with how to plan for the upcoming school year as the delta variant of the coronavirus spreads widely, and infects more people, in Texas.
What’s more, they have to figure out how to help kids who’ve fallen behind in school because of the constantly shifting learning landscape during the pandemic.
Sarah Mervosh, a national reporter for The New York Times, told Texas Standard that while students did make learning gains last year, they did it much more slowly than normal, amounting to widespread “learning loss.” Also, there were glaring racial disparities in learning loss, which Mervosh says exacerbate existing inequities in the education system.
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The control room at NBC Nightly News in 2008. A media literacy expert says, especially during the pandemic, it s important to evaluate health news from multiple perspectives.
As the delta variant of COVID-19 sweeps across the country, cases and hospitalizations are on the rise, especially in places with relatively low vaccination rates. And there’s real and growing concern that misinformation flourishing in some of those places is having a direct effect on people’s health care decisions.
But one tool that could help cut through that misinformation is media literacy. Yvonnes Chen, who researches media literacy and health at the University of Kansas, told Texas Standard that giving people the tools to better discern fact from fiction in the media they consume could help them make better decisions about their health.
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