Dana Goldstein, The New York Times
Published: 09 Apr 2021 09:50 AM BdST
Updated: 09 Apr 2021 09:50 AM BdST Almarie Frazier with her 12-year old daughter, Kamari, and 7-year old son, Wayne, at home in Oakland, Calif, March 28, 2021.The New York Times
Over the past year, Deprece Bonilla, a mother of five in Oakland, California, has gotten creative about helping her children thrive in a world largely mediated by screens. );
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She signed them up for online phonics tutoring and virtual martial arts lessons. If they are distracted inside the family’s duplex, she grabs snacks and goes with the children into the car, saying they cannot come out until their homework is done. She has sometimes spent three hours per day assisting with school assignments, even as she works from home for a local nonprofit organisation.
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Rong Xiaoqing, City Journal, April 4, 2021
On February 26, when former New York City schools chancellor Richard Carranza announced his resignation, the Asian-American parent groups who had been calling for his ouster for more than 18 months were wary celebrants. Carranza’s departure was a measure of vindication for these parents, who want the city to retain its current selective admissions systems for gifted children and for teenagers seeking entry into top public high schools. Carranza was determined to reduce what he called segregation in city schools and to create more opportunities for black and Hispanic students an effort, the parents understood, that would come at the expense of Asian-American students who worked hard to do well under the current system. Even before the surge in attacks against Asians in the past year, the education issue had made many feel victimized by American society. But now that Carranza is gone, they aren’t popping champagne corks: New
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The NY Times published a story yesterday which notes that some educators have proposed a terrible new way to deal with pandemic learning loss among students: Don’t test for it so we don’t know how bad it is.
You’ve probably heard by now that a bunch of research suggests the last year has been terrible for many K-12 students, particularly those in public schools. Online learning has been a real struggle for a lot of kids, to the point that some have simply disappeared and have given up trying. In some cases the impact on kids goes beyond learning deficits to serious emotional problems and even suicide. And even knowing all of that, teacher’s unions in some places like Chicago and LA continue to fight the reopening of schools now and won’t even commit to fully reopening in the fall.
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Apr 08, 2021 07:29 AM EDT
On Tuesday, a 12-year-old boy killed himself by jumping from the roof of an Upper East Side building in New York City.
Boy died after jumping in 15-story apartment building in New York
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Police Step Up Patrols In Asian Neighborhoods In NYC After Atlanta Shootings NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 17: NYPD officers hand out information about hate crimes in Asian communities after mass shootings in Atlanta that left 8 dead, including 6 Asian Americans, on March 17, 2021 in New York City. Stop AAPI Hate a nonprofit social organization that tracks incidents of discrimination, hate and xenophobia against Asian Americans said it recorded 3,795 anti-Asian hate incidents between March 19, 2020 and February 28, 2021.