While the end of the pandemic is likely still months off, the White House has called for most K-8 schools to reopen by May, with in-person instruction at least one day a week, prolonging the possibility of distance learning.
Though virtual challenges remain – like teacher burnout and learning loss – some districts are pinpointing remote practices worth keeping. Sifting out solutions from the struggle may help solve chronic problems of quality and equity, say education experts.
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Educators creating solutions to the challenges of remote learning are seeing the outlines of the future: pandemic innovations that have staying power and may even help solve chronic problems of quality and equity.
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The only thing wrong with democracy in America is that some people don’t agree with me! Seriously, I have my blind spots too. But it’s also true that the public finds it difficult to hold different things in mind at once. That’s one of the hardest things about playing the piano – one has to control two hands doing different things at the same time. Coordination is hard and hard for the brain, although over time we learn to do it for the things that we have to do every day. When it gets to law or foreign affairs, coordination is a constant issue, enough to give one a headache. But good law and good policy depend on it.
New York bill proposes local police be banned from working with ICE
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Protestors hold a rally outside the front doors of the Rensselaer County Sheriff s office on on Thursday, Feb. 20, 20202, in Troy, N.Y. There is a bill in the state Legislature in March 2021 that would ban state law enforcement agencies from working with ICE. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union
ALBANY The lights flashed red and blue behind him as Daniel Hernandez was driving his truck home from an auto garage.
A Catskill police officer pulled Hernandez over in February 2020, allegedly for having a loud exhaust, according to the immigrant advocacy group Columbia County Sanctuary Movement. Questions from police about his car turned into questions about his immigration status, and when the officer suspected Hernandez was undocumented, he took him to the station in handcuffs, holding him until U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived to detain him.
Dozens rally in downtown Syracuse for Breonna Taylor, Judson Albahm
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Activist group Rebirth SYR has pledged 40 days of action to honor Judson Albahm, who was killed by police on March 4.
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Balloons, signs, candles and posters adorned the statues lining the Firefighter’s Memorial Park in downtown Syracuse on Saturday as Rebirth SYR, a local activist group, staged a rally.
Dozens of community members gathered at the park to remember Breonna Taylor and Judson Albahm. Plainclothes police officers fatally shot Taylor, a 26-year old EMT, in March 2020 while serving a no-knock warrant in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment, sparking nationwide protests against police brutality. The officers involved were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his latest reform plan for the NYPD on Friday, a blend of commitments and aspirations that range from hiring more cops who live in the five boroughs to "undoing the legacy and harm of racialized policing."