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What should communities do when a school closes for good?

Thursday, June 25, 2020

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Framing a legislative agenda to achieve meaningful school safety and policing reform

Kenneth Alonzo Anderson and Meredith B.L. Anderson

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Botswana Real-time Scaling Lab

Five emerging insights on scale and systems change in education

Jenny Perlman Robinson, Molly Curtiss Wyss, and Patrick Hannahan

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

9 year old student Jordan in his bedroom in front of his laptops during distance virtual school learning amid Coronavirus Pandemic in Broward County, Florida Public Schools. Florida began their experience with online virtual distance learning, amid the growing coronavirus pandemic on March 31, 2020 in Miramar, Florida. (Photo by JL/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Unequally disconnected: Access to online learning in the US

Victoria Collis and Emiliana Vegas

Monday, June 22, 2020

Students in the Munroe Elementary School after-school garden club (L-R) Anai Carrillo, Jessica Grimaldo, Andrea Torres and Sandaley Haileseolph at the table in the foreground chop vegetables to put in a stir fry dish they would cook in Denver, Colorado May 9, 2012. The students learn to grow and prepare healthy meals in the school's garden club, with some of the food going to the school's lunch program. Colorado has the second fastest growing childhood obesity rate in the nation says non-profit LiveWell Colorado. Groups like Livewell are working to reduce childhood obesity by supporting school gardens, especially in low income areas, to provide learning about healthy food while actually providing nourishment. Studies have shown that children are more likely to try eating fresh fruit and vegetables if they are involved in growing them. Photo taken May 9, 2012. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH EDUCATION SOCIETY) - TM3E85F16B801

The calm before the storm in local education politics

Paul T. Hill and Ashley Jochim

Monday, June 22, 2020

Students listen to a greeting from a principal through TV class at an elementary school, where students found positve for a new coronavirus test, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture on June 18, 2020. The elmenatary school decided to operate the staggered attendance to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infection. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Investing in public education worldwide is now more important than ever

Friday, June 19, 2020

Students Laila Lacy, 17, and Ashley Williams, 17, stand in front of graduation balloons at a drive-thru graduation ceremony at University High School amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 12, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

University finances and COVID-19: Different schools, different risks

Thursday, June 18, 2020

A handful of students remain on campus at Monroe Community College, Friday, May 15, 2020. The college allows students who don't have a residence to go back to or live too far away to remain living on campus. Nights Asefa of Greece works on homework while Danniela Morales who lives in Jamaica in the Queens borough of NYC, eats a cupcake. Asefa, who will attend SUNY Albany in the fall said, "I hope everything goes back to normal," and that they can see each other face to face.Rochester Coronavirus Mcc Students Reopen Rochester Two Girls

Support for school-aged moms in Jamaica during COVID-19

Dasmine Kennedy

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Back in school after two months of confinement, schoolchlidren are studying again in their classrooms according to the health standards in force. Vincennes, France. May 26, 2020. Hugo Lebrun / Hans LucasDe retour a l ecole apres deux mois de confinement, des ecoliers etudient de nouveau dans leur classe selon les normes sanitaires en vigueur. Vincennes, France. 26 mai 2020. Hugo Lebrun / Hans LucasNO USE FRANCE

How much learning may be lost in the long-run from COVID-19 and how can mitigation strategies help?

Michelle Kaffenberger

Monday, June 15, 2020

Germantown High School closed its doors to students in mid March of this year due to the coronavirus outbreak. May graduation ceremonies in the Madison County School District will be conducted by appointment and students may have no more than five guests in attendance. Thursday, May 14, 2020.Germantown High School

How Congress can equitably allocate COVID-19 education aid to states

Sarah Reber and Nora Gordon

Monday, June 15, 2020