The Denver school district is bracing for a “dire financial situation” next year, in the likely case that a coronavirus-induced economic downturn decimates Colorado education funding. At a virtual meeting Thursday, the school board discussed drastic options to cut district spending, including freezing teacher pay, […] My friend and colleague Doug Holly, who has died aged 89, spent most of his career at the University of Leicester school of education, where he taught others to be humanities teachers and also wrote three books on educational topics. The son of Norman Holly, […] Seamus Oates was deciding whether to keep his schools for vulnerable and difficult children open during the coronavirus crisis when an email from a teaching assistant dropped into his inbox. “Dear Seamus,” it read. “I have to admit I haven’t been overly concerned [about Covid-19]. […] Global crises often bring surprises for schools. The first world war flagged up the high number of young soldiers who couldn’t read or write. In the second world war, middle-class country families despaired when evacuated children showed up malnourished and riven with lice. In the […] Justine Tanomjit, a commercial law student at Aberystwyth University, was headhunted for a job as an insurance broker that would have begun in June. Two weeks ago she got a call saying the interview was cancelled. “I feel so sad and frustrated. I’d been nervous […] School closures do not appear to have a significant effect on the spread of infections during outbreaks such as Covid-19, a study suggests. Researchers found that school closures alone were predicted to reduce deaths by around 2 per cent to 4 per cent amid the Covid-19 outbreak […]
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