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For some students, UC Berkeley’s work-study program has been a source of support amid several challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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745 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Ben Hires (CAS’00, STH’03, MET’08) is “Opening Doors” as the CEO at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center The following article was originally published by Bostonia on March 4, 2021, and was written by John O’Rourke. Photo by Cydney Scott. Click here to read the original article. They are determined to use their experience, influence, and positions to help make their business, organization, and world a more inclusive place. They a...

Twitter Facebook In mid-March, after Boston Prep’s administration decided to close the 6–12 charter public school and move classes online because of COVID-19, Julie Duran and a team of teachers began assembling a makeshift warehouse in the school cafeteria. From it, they doled out Chromebook laptops to every student—most from low-income communities in Boston’s Hyde Park, Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan neighborhoods. That was only the start. For students who didn’t have intern...

Is there really a ‘science of reading’ that tells us exactly how to teach kids to read? Valerie Strauss © iStock /iStock (iStock) One of the longest-running education debates — commonly referred to as a war — has been over how to teach reading. It started in the 1800s, when Horace Mann, often called “the father of public education” in the United States, argued against teaching the explicit sounds of each letter. He worried that students would concentrate on soun...