Coronavirus (COVID-19) Families, Communities, and Education

Webinar: Reopening schools in the fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic

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Sisters Jamie, 9, (L) and Jamella, 8, do their homework at South Los Angeles Learning Center in Los Angeles, California March 16, 2011. The center is run by School on Wheels, which uses volunteers to tutor homeless children in shelters, parks, motels, and two centers. There has been a surge in the number of homeless children in Los Angeles in the last five years, due to persistent unemployment and mounting foreclosures. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY)

Getting tutoring right to reduce COVID-19 learning loss

Matthew Kraft and Michael Goldstein

Thursday, May 21, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Boxes of N95 protective masks for use by medical field personnel are seen at a New York State emergency operations incident command center during the coronavirus outbreak in New Rochelle, New York, U.S., March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

What can be done to protect front-line communities from COVID-19?

John Hudak and Makada Henry-Nickie

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Little Tokyo

How Little Tokyo, Los Angeles is approaching community-led recovery through arts and culture

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Middle school reading teacher Shayna Boyd prepares for the start of remote teaching due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in her home office in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. April 8, 2020. Picture taken April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan O'Brien.

COVID-19 shows that America’s broadband plan is still in beta

Monday, May 18, 2020

Arielle Sadia, a 16 years old student in Odienné, in the Northwest of Côte d'Ivoire. During the coronacrisis schools are closed. But theimath teacher was reluctant and took the initiative to teach with a limited group of students twice a week for two hours.They respect the social distance and wear a mask during classes. "I find it a dood initiative because I can not just sit and wait at home doing nothing. I prefer to come to school. I encourage the youth to study even more now during this crisis. My dream is to become an engineer. " says the young girl and first of her class. For every child, education.

5 actions to help bring the most marginalized girls back to school after COVID-19

Robert Jenkins and Rebecca Winthrop

Friday, May 15, 2020

Prerna School in India

COVID-19 in India: Education disrupted and lessons learned

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Empty bunkbeds await detainees at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) newest detention facility in Anson, Texas. Called the Bluebonnet Detention Center (BBDC), it will start receiving detainees during the week of Dec. 9, 2019 and is slated to accommodate up to 1,000 ICE detainees.1231bluebonnet002

As COVID-19 spreads in ICE detention, oversight is more critical than ever

John Hudak and Christine Stenglein

Thursday, May 14, 2020

FILE PHOTO: People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at an Arkansas Workforce Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S. April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo/File Photo

What weekly unemployment claims reveal about the local impacts of the COVID-19 recession

May 14, 2020

Helen and Tyler McClenahan help their kids with school work at home during Washington Governor's "stay home, stay healthy" initiative as efforts continue to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Seattle, Washington, U.S. March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

Where’s the rallying cry? America’s children are unequally prepared to absorb the impacts of COVID-19

Lisa A. Gennetian and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Wednesday, May 13, 2020