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By Thomas Catenacci
Teachers unions largely won’t explain why they want to keep public education virtual, even though studies have suggested that schools aren’t coronavirus super-spreaders as originally expected and that students’ performance have suffered in remote environments.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, elementary and high school students nationwide have been forced to take classes remotely, which has caused many children to fall far behind both on exercise, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers, and classwork, The Washington Post reported. A New York Times article labeled remote learning among the most “insidious” tragedies emerging from the pandemic.
Trump is considering a move that would prolong Yemen s misery
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Mohamad Bazzi
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Editor s note: Mohamad Bazzi (@BazziNYU) is a journalism professor at New York University and former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday, where he was the lead writer on the 2003 Iraq war and its aftermath. He is a non-resident fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.
(CNN) In one of its final foreign policy acts before leaving office, the Trump administration is considering designating Yemen s Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization. The move is part of President Donald Trump s and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo s campaign to impose more sanctions on Iran and its allies in the Middle East and to create new hurdles that would make it difficult for the incoming Joe Biden administration to resume negotiations with Tehran.
Secretary-General Appoints Tor Wennesland of Norway United Nations Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Tor Wennesland of Norway as his new Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority. In this capacity, Mr. Wennesland will be the Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Quartet.
Mr. Wennesland succeeds Nickolay Mladenov of Bulgaria to whom the SecretaryâGeneral is grateful for his important contributions and leadership of the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.