Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH awards, a brand-new segment in which we list a series of stupid people and say caustic things about them. Hot off the heels of a fun, popular, and spirited 2020 IDIOT OF THE YEAR series, we have decided to give the people what they want. Read more…
Last fall, the United Kingdom rolled out a national program that provides subsidized, personalized tutoring to elementary, middle, and high school students who fell behind when schools shut down as a result of the COVID outbreak. The U.K.’s National Tutoring Program, which will last two years, is specifically designed to bring disadvantaged students back up to […]
The 9/11 attacks occurred during Amy Fast’s first week of teaching. Nearly two decades later, she now serves as principal of McMinnville High School in McMinnville, Ore. In times of blindsiding public crisis, all eyes are on her for guidance and stability: Students and staff, teachers, and families look to her to lead the community […]
Enlarge (credit: Flickr) Early in 2020, I wrote about my experiences of moving to online learning: learning to use new tools, changing the way I taught, and dealing with the challenges of remote assessment. Sitting, unmentioned in the background, was the fact that the faculty where I teach had already agreed to revamp our electrical […]
A disproportionately high number of minority and poor students weren’t in colleges for evaluations that autumn, complicating attempts to gauge the pandemic’s effects on a few of the most vulnerable pupils, a non-profit firm that conducts standardized testing mentioned Tuesday. In general, NWEA’s autumn examinations demonstrated central and middle school pupils have dropped measurably behind […]
Though economic fault lines of economic and racial woes were subjected from COVID-19, their fissures are laid bare with a very long overdue reckoning on race that’s tough companies to move beyond older saws of inclusion and diversity supporting the question of exactly what it means to become antiracist at each level of their enterprise. […]
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