How to Reopen Schools
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Can teachers be vaccinated quickly? And can most schools safely reopen now? Yes and yes. There are two obvious ways to reopen schools. One is to take precautions like mask wearing that minimize the risk of outbreaks inside school buildings. The other is […]
Opinion | Can We Stop Fighting About Charter Schools?
Yet from all the attention this debate grabs, you would never know that only about 6 percent of public school students attend charters. More students have parents who are undocumented, and far more are disabled. More children live in states where corporal punishment is still permitted in schools. But these students’ needs generally don’t have […]
Free sanitary products in NZ schools to beat period poverty
Research shows that one in 12 young people skipped school because they did not have access to sanitary products. New Zealand’s schools will provide access to free sanitary products for female students from June as part of the government’s latest attempt to stem “period poverty” in the country. Period poverty occurs when women and girls […]
Impeachment, Schools Reopening, Valentine’s Day: Your Friday Evening Briefing
(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. Donald Trump’s impeachment team concluded its incendiary defense of the former president, setting up a verdict in the trial as early as Saturday. Mr. Trump’s lawyers called the House’s charge that he incited an insurrection at the Capitol […]
US CDC recommends schools reopen with universal masking
School reopenings have been the focus of labour disputes between teachers unions and their districts in major US cities. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday issued new guidance for US schools to reopen, recommending universal mask-wearing and physical distancing as key mitigation strategies to getting children back in the classroom. The […]
Covid-19 Live Updates: Establishing New Guidelines, the C.D.C. Urges Reopening Schools
Here’s what you need to know: An empty classroom at Govalle Elementary School in Austin, Texas, in December.Credit…Sergio Flores for The New York Times The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday urged that K-12 schools be reopened and offered a comprehensive science-based plan for doing so speedily, an effort to resolve an urgent […]
What Will It Take to Reopen Schools?
The Biden administration is determined to restart in-person learning quickly. But there are some major hurdles. Source link
Indonesia bans mandatory religious attire in state schools
Activists lauded the government’s decision after outcry over non-Muslim students being forced to wear a hijab. Activists in Indonesia have lauded the government’s decision to ban public schools from making religious attire mandatory, a move that followed national outrage over non-Muslim students being forced to wear a hijab. Andreas Harsono, a researcher at Human Rights […]
‘No room for debate’: Hong Kong outlines security law for schools
Hong Kong children as young as six years old will be taught the “great importance” of the territory’s national security law and what constitutes foreign interference and subversion under new education guidelines for the city. Beijing imposed the security law in June last year after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in […]
Opinion | San Francisco Schools, Radicalism and the Pandemic
This week, the San Francisco School Board of Education voted 6 to 1 to proceed with a plan to rename 44 of the city’s currently shuttered schools, wiping away notables like Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Paul Revere, Robert Louis Stevenson and even Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior senator, for various forms of cooperation with white supremacy […]
The Debate Over Reopening Schools
Good morning. It’s been a month since Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced his Safe Schools for All Plan, in which he aims to reopen schools for in-person learning by February or March. However, with the Feb. 16 deadline to open schools looming, there’s no telling how many districts have actually signed on to adopt the plan. […]
Opinion | I Can’t Believe I Need to Say This, but We Need Schools More Than Bars
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For almost 10 months now, around 35 million Brazilian children have been out of school. When schools were closed in March, at the beginning of the pandemic, I thought we only had to be a little patient. As soon as we got the virus under control, they would be the first […]
UK urged to keep schools closed as it hits daily COVID record
The United Kingdom on Saturday recorded more new coronavirus infections in a single day than ever before, registering more than 57,700 cases within 24 hours, many of which are attributed to a possibly more contagious virus strain that is particularly rampant in London. In the same period, 445 virus-related deaths were also recorded. The British […]
Hong Kong to close more schools after spike in coronavirus cases #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
In-person classes in lower primary schools halted after the city’s top health official says the situation is ‘severe’. Hong Kong has suspended in-person classes for lower primary school students after the city’s top health official said the coronavirus situation in the city was “severe”. Classes for primary one to three students will be suspended for […]
New York City schools to close again as city fights COVID-19 #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
New York City is shuttering schools to try to stop the renewed spread of the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday in a painful about-face for one of the first big US school systems to bring students back to classrooms this year. The nation’s largest public school system will halt in-person learning Thursday, the […]
In Pictures: Schools shut and pregnancies rise in COVID-hit Kenya #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Jackline Bosibori wept when she found out she was pregnant. The 17-year-old’s mother, who is raising six children alone, collapsed in their one-room home. They had been repeatedly threatened with eviction and couldn’t afford another mouth to feed. “If I was in school, this could have not happened,” said Bosibori, who wants to become a […]
US schools suspend classes as COVID-19 cases grow: Live news #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
A sustained rise in coronavirus cases is pushing governments to adopt strict new measures to fight the pandemic. More than 52 million people have contracted COVID-19 globally and at least 1,290,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. News about a successful Pfizer vaccine has given people hope, though its price and availability are still […]
NYC delays start of school year to allow more preparation time
New York City is delaying the start of its school year by several days to give teachers more time to prepare to have students back in classrooms amid the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday. In a deal struck with unions representing teachers, staff and administrators, instruction that was supposed to begin […]