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Welfare of children concerns lecturer
Senior lecturer, researcher, and coordinator of early childhood programmes at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Zoyah Kinkead Clark is expressing concern for the welfare of young children, many of whom she says might be displaced come September, given the upheaval in a number of private
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Get cracking on COVID back-to-school rules, Phillips says | Lead Stories | Jamaica
Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips is appealing to the Government to treat as a matter of urgency the protocols for the reopening of schools in September. Educational institutions were ordered closed on March 13 as a containment measure amid the...
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New Data Shows Majority of Educators Willing to Go Back to School if Key Safety Conditions Are Met - Milwaukee Community Journal
National Poll Shows Educators Fear Lack of Federal Investment in Safe Reopening, Prefer Hybrid Model to Meet Kids’ Needs WASHINGTON—In a nationwide survey of nearly 1,200 K-12 educators, paraprofessionals and higher education faculty and staff conducted in June of this year, 76 percent say
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NCEL to launch new online course for principals, vice-principals
The National College for Educational Leadership (NCEL) is now accepting applications for its Virtual Instructional Leadership (VIL) online course that will be launched within
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COVID-19 'an opportunity' say African educators in major new survey - Voice Online
THE RESULTS of a survey, released by eLearning Africa and EdTech Hub, show that many... The post COVID-19 'an opportunity' say African educators in major new survey appeared first on Voice Online.
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McLean: Options on table to re-energise students
Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Dr Grace McLean, says several options are being explored to help students who might have regressed because of the disruption to the teaching learning process since the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close early in March, come the September
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BCPS News Release – Board of Education Unanimously Endorses Black Lives Matter Resolution | Afro
Resolution proposed by Student Member of the Board Omer Reshid
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Effective Anti-Racist Education Requires More Diverse Teachers, More Training : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR
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Kenya: KNUT, UASU Want Schools to Remain Shut Until September
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu) are proposing schools to remain closed until September
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An Amiable Robot Provides a New Way to Introduce Coding in the Classroom
KUBO teaches coding to students aged four through ten using interactive, offline activities
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EDUCATION: College Board Creates Advanced Placement Curriculum on African Diaspora for High School Students
(Photo of high school students by AP/Jaime Henry-White via Creative Commons) Years in the making, the influential College Board is launching an ambitious national curriculum on race with an Advance…
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How Houston ISD plans to equip students on first day of school online - DefenderNetwork.com
The largest school district in Texas, and the seventh largest in the U.S., has the difficult task of starting the first day of the new academic year virtually for 209,772 students on Tuesday, Sept. 8. While the way students learn has transitioned from in-person to online because of the COVID-19
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Parents helping children navigate distance learning
WITH schools making the switch to distance learning due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, parents across the island have had to take on the added task of assisting their children with their lessons at home, while juggling work and other
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Masks in class? Many questions as Germans go back to school - Black News Channel
By DAVID RISING Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Masks during class, masks only in the halls, no masks at all. Distance when possible, no distance within same-grade groups, no distance at all. As Germany's 16 states start sending millions of children back to school in the middle of the global
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LETTERS: Hard choices as schools await reopening
This will make it hard to implement a system of managing students, teachers and workers for those who stay out of school with their families and who may be a potential link to community based transmission
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The Minister explained that ample time was given to parents and students to prepare and urged parents to work along with their
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Covid-19: Teachers using fake doctors' notes to avoid returning to school - Limpopo command council
Limpopo's Provincial Coronavirus Command Council (PCCC) has accused some teachers of submitting fake doctor's certificates, on their vulnerability to Covid-19 because of comorbidities, to avoid returning to work on
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Elizabeth Koontz
On this date in 1919, we celebrate the birth of Elizabeth Koontz, an African American educator and politician. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz was born in Salisbury, N.C., and attended that city’s public school system. She graduated from Livingstone College in 1938. Koontz attained her Masters Degree from
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Diddy, Dr. Steve Perry Open Third Charter School: “We Are Grooming Future Leaders”
"We are grooming future leaders that will change their communities and the world," Diddy reportedly said in a statement.
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Jacobson, Joel, Seattle, Washington
Joel Jacobson has taught language arts in the Seattle Public Schools since 2008.  He currently teaches at Nathan Hale High School where he works with a diverse population in inclusive classrooms.  He chose to teach at Nathan Hale, the school he graduated from, because of its commitment to the princ
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A message from SCS Supt. Ray: Grace above all things - TSDMemphis.com
by Dr. Joris Ray While it is my honor to serve as the superintendent for Shelby County Schools, my greatest role is father – to be more precise – the father of a college student and the husband, brother, uncle and cousin of teachers. These hats are not unique to just me – my []
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Wits, UKZN students team up for podcast on social injustices
Two students have come together to create a podcast of conversations about social issues and injustices.
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Cameroon: Teens Urge Education for Peers in Separatist Crisis Areas
Schools in French-speaking regions hosting the children are calling for peace so that schools closed in the troubled English-speaking regions can be
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Mixed reactions from students about the resumption of physical classes
After months of being away from the physical classroom, teaching resumed today for students sitting Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) examinations, scheduled to get under way on July
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BCHS student, teacher honored by Georgia DOE
A recent Burke County High School graduate as well as a BCHS teacher have received prestigious honors from the Georgia Department of Education. Recently, the GaDOE named Jesus Saenz, Class of 2020 salutatorian, and Tonya Torek, ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) and French teacher, as
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Angola: Ministry of Education Assesses Distance Learning Efficiency
Luanda — The upgrade of the TV and radio classes in the primary and first cycle (7th to 9th grade) education system were analyzed last Tuesday, in Luanda, at a meeting between the minister of Education, Luísa Grilo, and coordinators of the
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Do not go to school, Eastern Cape officials tell Grade R, 6 and 11 pupils
The coronavirus crisis has worsened in the Eastern Cape, as pupils in Grades R, 6 and 11 have been told to stay away from school on Monday.
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Saturday school is out as SCS lays out options for school year calendar
After pushback from teachers and school board members, Saturday school is out as an option to help Memphis students catch up after missing 44 days of school because of coronavirus
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Medical Student Malone Mukwende Creates Booklet to Teach Doctors How to Spot Symptoms of Illness on Dark Skin
Malone Mukwende, a second-year medical student at St. George’s, University of London, was motivated to create “Mind the Gap” after he noticed a lack of diversity in his learning materials. So Mukwe…
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JTA happy with PEP placement method
MONTEGO BAY, St James Owen Speid, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association, says the organisation is satisfied with the methodology used by the Government for students' Primary Exit Profile (PEP) placements.We were pretty pleased with what they did, in terms of using those scores to compute
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