Tag: school reopening
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President-Elect Biden Seeks to Reopen Most K-8 Schools Within First 100 Days
This article was published on the Council for Exceptional Children on January 8, 2021. On December 29, President-Elect Joe Biden delivered pandemic-related remarks that included a call to action for most K-8 schools to reopen by the end of his first 100 days in office. Biden called on Congress to provide additional funding for states…
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Homeless Families Struggle With Impossible Choices As School Closures Continue
This article was published on NPR by Cory Turner on October 7, 2020. The closure of school buildings in response to the coronavirus has been disruptive and inconvenient for many families, but for those living in homeless shelters or hotel rooms — including roughly 1.5 million school-aged children — the shuttering of classrooms and cafeterias has been…
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The Back To School Facilities Toolkit Helps Visualize School Design After COVID-19
The executive director of the Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School describes how Gensler, PBDW Architects, PSF Projects, Situ, and WXY Architecture + Urban Design are reimagining school facilities and processes in an era of social distancing. This article was published by The Journal of the American Institute of Architects by Katie Gerfen. Summer break is officially…
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Online learning cannot just be for those who can afford its technology
The dramatic shift to online learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic risks widening educational inequalities. This article was published by Nature Research on September 23, 2020. Every day, hundreds of millions of students, teachers and support staff, are participating in a learning revolution: the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the centuries-old tradition that students…