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

April 25, 2020, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Kitchen staffs preparing meals for frontline workers at Pagu in Cambridge. Pagu is one of the first restaurant partners of Off Their Plate (OTP). OTP is a brainchild of Natalie Guo, Harvard Medical student, providing relief for two hard hit industries, Health care and restaurant industries. OTP, working with World Central Kitchen has expanded in 9 cities, working with more than 50 restaurants and 110 health care facilities across the nation and fundraised 3 million dollars since March. The organization pays restaurant $10 a meal to produce for frontline workers. The National Restaurant Association estimates that 3 million industry employees have already lost their jobs, and restaurants across USA will take a $225 billion sales hit through May . No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

To protect frontline workers during and after COVID-19, we must define who they are

Adie Tomer and Joseph W. Kane

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Webinar: Strengthening the civic fabric of the nation

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

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[COVID-19] is just a much earlier example of life being very unpredictable and forcing students to be much more flexible, and also developing a real sense of resilience and ability to withstand the uncertainty. And to adapt, and to think creatively.

The Guardian Monday, June 8, 2020

Strategies for increasing affordable housing amid the COVID-19 economic crisis

Ingrid Ellen, Erin Graves, Katherine O’Regan, and Jenny Schuetz

Monday, June 8, 2020

Save our education budgets: Maintaining expenditure on education post-pandemic

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

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A girl holds her chalkboard as she arrives to attend lessons at the evening school in Ouakam neighbourhood, Dakar, Senegal January 16, 2019. Picture taken January 16, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Ensuring learning continuity for every African child in the time of COVID-19

Adedeji Adeniran

Thursday, June 4, 2020

A pupil, wearing a protective mask, writes on a classroom chalkboard at the Merlan school of Paillet during the reopening of schools, as the lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is eased, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast May 25, 2020. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Education is crucial to Africa’s COVID-19 response

Jean-Marc Bernard, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, and Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Schools have been closed and Two Rivers Middle has a sign saying so as the coronavirus outbreak continued to force many people indoors in Nashville, Tenn. Saturday, March 28, 2020.Empty 04

Reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Your questions, our answers

Daniel A. Domenech, Michael Hansen, Heather J. Hough, and Emiliana Vegas

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Alexeen Simms, a server at the Hungry Tarpon Restaurant in Islamorada, Fla., provides a luncheon entree to a couple Monday. June 1. 2020. After being closed to visitors since March 22, 2020, to help curtail the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Florida Keys reopened to tourists Monday. Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Podcast: A roadmap for reopening America

John R. Allen, William A. Galston, Ross A. Hammond, Molly Kinder, Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Rashawn Ray, and David Wessel

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

West Central sixth-grader Collin Freemark works on math problems on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 in Hartford, S.D. Freemark's class uses online tools, like video chat, to learn remotely.Remotelearning003

Virtual charter schools and online learning during COVID-19

Brian Fitzpatrick, Mark Berends, Joseph J. Ferrare, and R. Joseph Waddington

Tuesday, June 2, 2020