by Supporting Education | Oct 5, 2020 | News
Calling front-line workers the “real heroes in the midst of this pandemic,” Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer announced on September 10, 2020, that the state would be funding a program to offer free college tuition for as many of those workers as possible. The...
by Supporting Education | Sep 28, 2020 | News, Student Issues
A study funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and conducted by a team of researchers from the Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University took a good look at how testing rates are affecting the impact of COVID-19 around the country, looking to find the optimal...
by Supporting Education | Sep 21, 2020 | News, Teacher Issues
New York City is the country’s largest school district, with more than 1.1 million students at 1,800 schools, taught by approximately 75,000 teachers. The schools alone hold more people than many substantial cities around the world. And they were supposed to go back...
by Supporting Education | Sep 14, 2020 | News, Student Issues
With exceptions, most of the United States’ over 50 million public school students have returned to “class” in front of a screen this autumn. For some, school via group chat is just fine, but many parents are concerned that their students aren’t well-suited to the...
by Supporting Education | Sep 7, 2020 | News, Student Issues
In 1918 and 1919, the Spanish flu infected an estimated half a billion people—nearly a third of the population of the planet at the time—and killed between 17 and 50 million, including between 500,000 and 850,000 Americans (the wide variances in numbers are due to...
