At a dining room table in Middletown, 9-year-old Leighann Jansen logs into class alongside three other siblings while balancing a wriggling toddler in her lap. In a modest Utica home, 16-year-old Say Kler Paw — part of a refugee family of 11 — puts her English and tech skills to good use to help […]
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Wisconsin Rural Students Face Digital Divide As Students Return
This is the third in a series of stories examining how school districts around the country are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. You can read the whole series here. By Peter Cameron/The Badger Project The 40-acre farmette where the Hellenbrand family lives in south-central Wisconsin is an eclectic mix of […]
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How to make sure children are mentally prepared for the big return to school
A child in a facemask – E+/ Vladimir Vladimirov When school starts next week, some pupils won’t have seen a classroom for nearly six months. However, the doughty 11-year-olds of Highgate Primary School in Haringey had a preview of Covid-era school life when they briefly returned in the summer term. […]
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After 2020, TV will try to return to ‘normal.’ We shouldn’t let it
Joe Biden embraces his wife, Jill, after accepting his party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) But just as the skies turned bright blue in the early days of the pandemic, when people took seriously the order to stay home — giving us an incidental […]
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Quarantine requirements may delay return to in-person school
Shannon Silver had planned to take her family on a trip from her home in Connecticut to visit relatives in Ohio just before the start of the school year for her two children. But she and her husband reversed course when people traveling from Ohio were added to a list […]