A sign (left) outside a Mongolian-language school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, reads: “When the people have conviction, the state has strength and the ethnic minorities have hope.” The sign at right says: “Rule of law.” Emily Feng/NPR hide caption toggle caption Emily Feng/NPR A sign (left) outside a Mongolian-language school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, reads: “When the people have conviction, the state has strength and the […]
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In any ordinary school year, school nurses are busy. This year, that’s an understatement. “Our role has expanded tenfold,” says Eileen Gavin, who co-leads a team of nurses for Middletown Township Public Schools in New Jersey. She and school nurses across the country face an unenviable and unprecedented task: caring for students and staff during a global pandemic. “We were at the front line of COVID-19 […]
Benjamin Dally and his daughters Emma (center) and Cleo are fostering Frisky the frog from a science classroom at PS 58 in Brooklyn, N.Y. Sarah Stacke for NPR hide caption toggle caption Sarah Stacke for NPR Benjamin Dally and his daughters Emma (center) and Cleo are fostering Frisky the frog from a science classroom at PS 58 in Brooklyn, N.Y. Sarah Stacke for NPR In the […]
In The Classroom That Zoom Built By Belle Chesler, Tom Dispatch. May 12, 2020 In The Classroom That Zoom Built2020-05-122020-05-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/shool-e1589306880832.jpg200px200px Above photo: From 112International. The Empire Has No Clothes. Do you hear that silence? That’s the absence of footsteps echoing through our nation’s public school hallways. It’s the silence of teaching in a virtual space populated with students on mute who lack a physical presence. It’s the […]