This story is being provided for free as part of a series on childcare during the COVID pandemic, powered by the Solutions Journalism Network and dedicated to delivering solution-oriented stories about problems our community is facing.
Younger children have historically taken major developmental cues from their older peers. Perhaps something we took for granted pre-COVID was the natural interaction of children of different ages inside schools and during extracurricular activities.
Insert the pandemic, and those interactions ceased. Feared now are potential social stunts, as younger children have missed out on key social experiences typically gained inside a school building environment, on the bus, during play dates, or on sports teams and in summer camps.
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When Rashid Beisenov moved his young family from Kazakhstan to take a job in north Alabama three and half years ago, his children spoke only their native Russian language. On the advice of a family friend, they settled in Madison and enrolled their two oldest children in the city school system.
In the summer of 2018, his children a son in second grade and a daughter in first grade were invited to the district’s revamped summer learning program for English language learners. Beisenov’s family speaks Russian at home.
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This story is being provided for free as part of a series on childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic, powered by the Solutions Journalism Network and dedicated to delivering solution-oriented stories about problems our community is facing.
FRAMINGHAM With a young daughter in the MetroWest YMCA day program, Framingham mom Katie Brennan just secured a promotion at her job.
“I definitely do not think it would have been something I could do if I was working remotely at home with my kids,” said Brennan, whose other child is a seventh-grader. “Without that day care, it wouldn’t have been possible.”
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2020 Brodsky Prize winner Emma Rosenbaum, who established the Runaway Bulldog as an independent student publication. Photo/Allegra Boverman
MANCHESTER, NH – New Hampshire high school journalists are invited to apply for The 2021 Brodsky Prize, established by a former editor of Manchester Central High School student newspaper Jeffrey Brodsky to encourage innovation by a new generation of student journalists. The $10,000 Brodsky Prize is open to all New Hampshire high school students, attending public, charter or parochial schools.
Judging criteria include a student’s journalistic initiative and enterprise, as well as what Brodsky calls “a contrarian nature and out-of-the-box thinking.” Since many school newspapers have been challenged by the COVID pandemic, this year’s Brodsky Prize focuses on student responses to essay questions, using a Solutions Journalism lens.