Back on September 8, 11 days before Boston College’s season-opening game, Eagles first-year coach Jeff Hafley announced defensive lineman Luc Bequette had joined the Boston College roster after transferring from Cal. “We are trying to get him acclimated as fast as we can, give him a helmet and let’s roll,” […]
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As thousands of children return to classrooms throughout Florida, local school officials, teachers and doctors spent Wednesday picking apart a state mandate requiring schools to resume in-person instruction this month amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We have no business opening schools by a certain deadline, and certainly not by Aug. 31,” […]
Students and faculty members at the University of Georgia staged an August 6 “die-in” protest in response to the school’s fall plans. (Screenshot: CBS46) Students at the University of Georgia staged a “die-in” demonstration — playing dead on the campus lawn — to protest the school’s August 20 opening plans. […]
Students and faculty members at the University of Georgia staged an August 6 “die-in” protest in response to the school’s fall plans. (Screenshot: CBS46) Students at the University of Georgia staged a “die-in” demonstration — playing dead on the campus lawn — to protest the school’s August 20 opening plans. […]
The Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers Los Angeles agreed upon a deal for online learning just before the first day of school on Aug. 18. (Los Angeles Times) How do we start school online? I have five children and one Wi-Fi hot spot. I can’t answer the […]
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Soaring coronavirus infections have provoked a lot of second thoughts among U.S. colleges and universities that were hoping to resume at least some in-person instruction in the fall. That’s understandable, but troubling. It’s crucial to engage students in meaningful collaborative experiences that are difficult to achieve on […]
Photograph: Cj Gunther/EPA The public school district in Charlottesville, Virginia, has proposed a model for schooling this fall that resembles what most districts are trying to do. Because state health officials recommend putting three to six feet between students, and because classrooms were already crowded and schools over-enrolled, the district […]
University of California campuses will offer mostly online instruction this fall, but each school has the power to set its own rules and at least two of them are already revising early plans to account for new coronavirus outbreaks. Some schools plan to offer 30% of instruction in person, while […]