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Commentary: Instead of Raging Over ‘Maus,’ Support Local People Who Are Fighting the Ban

by Whitney Kimball Coe on February 3, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Plenty of people in East Tennessee are livid over a school board’s decision to remove “Maus” from the language arts curriculum. But indiscriminate outrage on TV and social media isn’t helping the local dissenters who are trying to build a better way forward. A few minutes before I gave an […]

Students enter the classroom in Godley, Texas, on August 5. Godley is a town of approximately 1,000 residents about 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth. The school district is among the first to open in Texas for the fall term. Photo: AP Photo/ LM Otero

When You Aren’t Old Enough for a Vaccine: An Alabama Sixth Grader on COVID-19

by Taylor Tomlin on November 2, 2021 Comments are Disabled

This article was written before FDA authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of 12. The COVID-19 pandemic has been by far the most distressing experience of my life. We learned to live wearing masks and only hang out with our friends outside. Over the past eighteen […]

Free Tuition Might Save Community Colleges — But What If Students Need More?

by Melanie Bavaria on May 19, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Five years ago, Brooke Clark would have never believed that she would make the Dean’s List. In fact, Clark had always felt guilty that she had not finished college. After graduating high school in 2013, Clark was taking care of her ill father, working full-time, and attending a new college […]

Robert Mitchell has taught in the Pittsburgh public school system for 26 years, but COVID has drastically changed what his school day looks like. Instead of being in the classroom with his students, Mitchell has created a digital workspace in his home where he teaches his middle school students Spanish. Photo: Justin Hayhurst/100 Days in Appalachia

In the Union Strongholds of Central Appalachia, Labor Struggles for Health Benefits Echo in Teacher Vaccination Efforts

by Laura Harbert Allen on March 23, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Robert Mitchell gets up while it’s still dark. Since the pandemic began last March, Mitchell, who has taught in the Pittsburgh city school system for 26 years, rises early to make sure his digital classroom is set up for the day. Between lesson planning – which includes some off-screen Spanish […]

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Commentary: Remote Learning Highlights Inequities in Public Education. But A Premature Return to In-Person Learning Could Be Worse.

by Joshua Weishart on January 14, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Defending plans to reopen schools at the deadliest, most infectious period of this pandemic yet, some officials have invoked the right to education in their state constitutions. A West Virginia Department of Education spokesperson recently remarked that the inequities of remote learning are “a derogation of the right to a […]

In Rural Virginia, Remote Schoolwork Is Powered by the Sun

by Meg McIntyre on October 29, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Solar-powered internet hotspots in Louisa County, Virginia, help fill the void in internet access in rural areas. A few times a week, Daphne MacDougall and her three kids pile into the car and head for the Holly Grove Christian Church, about two miles from their home in southeast Louisa County, […]