A new guide for schools: How to work with families this spring
Yehyun Kim :: CTMirror
In-school teaching and learning continues to take place across the state thanks to the implementation of effective mitigation strategies.
With months of remote and hybrid learning to go, families and educators continue to adapt and innovate to meet the moment. Since August, we’ve spoken with hundreds of parents, caregivers, family support groups, educators, and students across Connecticut and the country about things things that have worked –strategies, big and small, that have made this time more manageable and helped children learn and stay connected with peers. Their tips and suggestions fill the Making Learning Work Family Guide to remote and hybrid learning.
Plan to expand child tax credit offers hope, along with direct payments
Lisa Backus, Conn. Health I-Team Writer
March 3, 2021
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Chinara Johnson is pictured with her children, from left, Zavad Morton, 5, Azania Johnson, 8, and Zakai Morton, 5, near her apartment building in downtown New Haven, Feb. 26, 2021.Cloe PoissonShow MoreShow Less
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Chinara Johnson is pictured with her children, from left, Zavad Morton, 5, Azania Johnson, 8, and Zakai Morton, 5, near her apartment building in downtown New Haven, Feb. 26, 2021.Cloe PoissonShow MoreShow Less
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When her car started making a noise more than a year ago, Chinara Johnson parked the vehicle and hasn’t used it since.
What the mink COVID-19 outbreaks taught us about pandemics
Spread of the coronavirus has exposed troubling problems at fur farms and how we respond to outbreaks there.
Denmark killed all its farmed mink last year, millions of animals, after a variant form of the novel coronavirus was detected circulating between mink and humans. New research has shown that many mink may be asymptomatic carriers of SARS-CoV-2.Photograph by Mads Claus Rasmusse, Ritzau Scanpix, AFP, Getty Images
ByDina Fine Maron
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Anne Sofie Hammer was searching for sick mink. The Danish government had hired the University of Copenhagen veterinary pathologist in June 2020 to investigate if farmers were infecting mink with the novel coronavirus. This meant going from farm to farm, looking for animals that weren’t eating or had a cough and taking blood samples and mouth swabs.