4 posts tagged with education by toastyk.
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Education and Censorship in the US
Children's author Maggie Tokuda-Hall lost a deal with Scholastic to license her book about love and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II because Scholastic (the world's largest book publisher and distributor of children's literature) requested that she remove the mention of racism in her author's note. Scholastic, after the public outcry, has apologized and offered to restart the conversation with her. Meanwhile, book challenges and bans of "woke" material continue to proceed at an alarming rate in the US. [more inside]
America's After-School Afterthought
The hours between school dismissal and the end of the workday are a mess. They don’t have to be. (SLVox)
Schools and the Path to Zero
Strategies for school reopening: building trust, infection control, OSHA, vaccines are recommendations made by experts at Pandemics Explained, a blog from Brown School of Public Health. They've issued guidance here. [more inside]
Why Reopening Schools Has Become the Most Fraught Debate of the Pandemic
Can we safely reopen schools? These debates over the science have grown more charged, as leaders seek to bring more students back to the classroom, but as Congress continues to drag its feet on stimulus funding. Many cash-strapped districts are struggling to implement the kinds of mitigation strategies that experts say have worked well abroad and that more-affluent schools have adopted. As COVID-19 cases rise nationwide, the question remains if reopening schools is a tolerable risk or a dangerous gamble, especially for communities of color ravaged most hard by the virus.
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