Inequality makes school reopenings less fair
4 years, 4 months ago

Inequality makes school reopenings less fair

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Erin Bromage is an associate professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Erin Bromage CNN If the community transmission in my area remains low, my wife and I have made the calculated decision that we will send our children to school. We can speculate as to why there is a wealth disparity with infection rates in our communities: More people in lower income neighborhoods may have been essential workers, providing more opportunities for exposure; often the housing density in those neighborhoods is high, increasing the ease of transmission between households once infections have penetrated the neighborhood; and often within households there are more people in less space, enhancing within-the-home infection rates. The infection rates we have seen among lower income essential workers and their families could now become the infection rates we see in children attending school. But make no mistake, if there is community transmission in your local area, once schools resume there will be infected children and staff within those school walls.

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Malls Open, Social Gatherings Allowed, Time We Let Children Return to School
3 years, 3 months ago

Malls Open, Social Gatherings Allowed, Time We Let Children Return to School

News 18  

Schools have remained largely closed for 1.5 years even as adults go to work, malls, and social gatherings each time a wave recedes. If asked about opening schools, at one end of the spectrum are parents who say—“I am worried about the third wave targeting children” or “We worry about kids bringing infection home to elders” or the ultimate conversation-stopper …

Should schools be reopened? Data shows children least vulnerable to Covid
3 years, 4 months ago

Should schools be reopened? Data shows children least vulnerable to Covid

India Today  

The debate is contentious. Children, the data reveal, represented 14.2 per cent of all Covid cases and accounted for 1.3-3.6 per cent of total reported hospitalizations in the United States. In the pre-Covid year of 2019, 47 per cent children lacked access to education and/or health, which shot up to 56 per cent during the pandemic, according to UNICEF data. …

Prioritising school reopening on the road to recovery
3 years, 5 months ago

Prioritising school reopening on the road to recovery

The Hindu  

Most schools in India have been closed since the national lockdown started in March 2020. A survey across 10 States in India in November 2020 estimated that nearly two-thirds of children in rural India may drop out of school, a staggering statistic which is likely to have worsened with continuing closure. Due to the shutdown of schools, mid-day meal schemes …

Can schools be reopened during the pandemic?
3 years, 5 months ago

Can schools be reopened during the pandemic?

The Hindu  

By the end of June 2021 over 150 million children in 19 countries were either attending virtual classes or had no schooling at all. It is known that 90% of infections among children remain asymptomatic or mild, and although the few children with severe disease will need hospital care, only 1-2% require intensive care unit management. Data over the past …

School reopening: Biden says schools ‘should probably all be open’ in the fall
3 years, 7 months ago

School reopening: Biden says schools ‘should probably all be open’ in the fall

CNN  

CNN — President Joe Biden said Friday that K-12 schools “should probably all be open” in the fall for in-person learning after more than a year of most of the country’s kids facing the challenge of remote instruction due to the coronavirus pandemic. Cardona told CNN’s Ana Cabrera on “CNN Newsroom” there is “still some hesitancy” about the safety of …

CDC's New Guidance For Reopening Schools May Not Be Effective
3 years, 10 months ago

CDC's New Guidance For Reopening Schools May Not Be Effective

NPR  

CDC's New Guidance For Reopening Schools May Not Be Effective The director of Harvard's Healthy Buildings program tells Steve Inskeep that updated CDC guidance on reopening schools during the pandemic may not help to return more kids to the classroom right away. We've So the community spread metric idea sounds great, but the reality is it doesn't really tell us …

Divides in parent opinion complicate school reopening push
3 years, 10 months ago

Divides in parent opinion complicate school reopening push

Associated Press  

President Joe Biden is pushing for K-8 schools to fully reopen in his first 100 days. So just like trust is earned, mistrust is also earned.” A CDC report in December similarly found that racial and ethnic minority parents were more concerned about some aspects of school reopening than white parents, including that mitigation measures wouldn’t be followed and the …

Muddled promises on schools pose political problem for Biden
3 years, 10 months ago

Muddled promises on schools pose political problem for Biden

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is in a political firestorm over how and when to get more schools open during the coronavirus pandemic, with Republicans seizing on confusion surrounding Biden’s goal to reopen a majority of schools within his first 100 days to paint the president as beholden to teachers’ unions at the expense of American families. Until the nation …

Here’s the CDC’s advice for reopening schools safely
3 years, 10 months ago

Here’s the CDC’s advice for reopening schools safely

LA Times  

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines Friday for how to open K-12 schools safely in a bid to help students across the nation resume in-person learning before the end of the 2020-21 school year. “These recommendations simply provide schools with a long-needed road map of how to open schools safely in a community.” How these …

The battle over schools reopening heats up. What are the facts?
3 years, 10 months ago

The battle over schools reopening heats up. What are the facts?

CNN  

CNN — As the Biden administration works to speed up the country’s Covid-19 response, reopening schools has become one of the primary benchmarks of recovery. While discussing the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines and teachers being categorized as essential workers, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said during a briefing last week that “there is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely …

Reopening of schools emerges as complex flashpoint for Biden administration
3 years, 10 months ago

Reopening of schools emerges as complex flashpoint for Biden administration

CNN  

CNN — President Joe Biden’s team is promising new guidance on school reopenings next week. And the administration created fresh confusion this week over the direction its school guidance is headed when Walensky said during a briefing Wednesday that “safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely” – only to have White …

Where Is It Safe To Reopen Schools? New Research Offers Answers
3 years, 11 months ago

Where Is It Safe To Reopen Schools? New Research Offers Answers

NPR  

Where Is It Safe To Reopen Schools? New Research Offers Answers Enlarge this image toggle caption Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe via Getty Images Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe via Getty Images Since the beginning of this pandemic, experts and educators have feared that open schools would spread the coronavirus further, which is why so many classrooms remain closed. But a new, nationwide study …

Opinion: Teachers are more than Covid data points
4 years ago

Opinion: Teachers are more than Covid data points

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Alexandra Robbins is an education reporter and the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestseller “The Nurses.” She is currently at work on a book about K-12 teachers. In a statement emailed to New York City outlet THE CITY in response to questions in May about how the Department of Education had handled the situation, …

Washington state urges schools phase in classroom learning
4 years ago

Washington state urges schools phase in classroom learning

Associated Press  

SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is loosening school reopening guidelines amid a resurging coronavirus pandemic and pleading with reluctant teachers to return to the classroom, particularly those tasked with educating the youngest and neediest students. Inslee, a Democrat, unveiled the state’s latest reopening standards on Wednesday, which urge schools to begin phasing in in-person learning no matter what the …

What Other Countries Can Teach The U.S. About Safely Reopening Schools
4 years, 5 months ago

What Other Countries Can Teach The U.S. About Safely Reopening Schools

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING One of the many challenges of reopening classrooms in the United States is that there isn’t much good data, if any, about what could happen. “There are so many different ways in which schools have reopened around the world, and it’s hard to put in a capsule to say ‘This is the best way’ or ‘This is …

I'm A Teacher And I'm Terrified Of What Could Happen When Schools Reopen
4 years, 5 months ago

I'm A Teacher And I'm Terrified Of What Could Happen When Schools Reopen

Huff Post  

Amy Mitchell via Getty Images When I began teaching in 2006, I never imagined I’d be calling on students to share their journal entries while pouring bowls of cereal for my own children. Of course we understand that working parents need to be able to go to work, but working teachers and other school staff also want to survive to …

Most Americans think it is unsafe to reopen schools: Poll
4 years, 5 months ago

Most Americans think it is unsafe to reopen schools: Poll

Al Jazeera  

Just 26 percent of American adults said they thought it was safe for schools in their community to bring students back. Only one in four Americans think it is safe for public schools to reopen as US coronavirus cases climb, and four in 10 parents said they would likely keep their children home if classes resume, a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion …

Here’s what the CDC recommends schools do as they reopen
4 years, 5 months ago

Here’s what the CDC recommends schools do as they reopen

CNN  

CNN — In his push to get schools to reopen, President Donald Trump has complained that guidelines offered by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to safely reopen amid the Covid-19 pandemic are “very tough” and “expensive.” If you’re one of the many parents and educators around the country agonizing over the upcoming start of the school year, …

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