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24 Nov, 7 tweets, 2 min read
How is remote learning going so far this year as we head into the Thanksgiving break, roughly three months into the school year? A roundup of reports from around the country:
In LA, the school year started with a sharp drop in kindergarten enrollment: latimes.com/california/sto…
In DC, the racial achievement gap is growing much wider:
In St Paul, nearly 40 percent of high school students have failing grades: kare11.com/article/news/e…
In Houston, more than 40 percent of students are failing at least two classes:
In Fairfax County VA, the 11th largest district in the country, F's have nearly doubled:
I could go on and on. Feel free to add other examples. And of course, many were sounding the alarm on this months ago... propublica.org/article/the-st…

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18 Nov
Just devastating numbers and quotes in this FT story surveying people in their 20s about the pandemic's disproportionate effects on their lives and prospects. I will quote a bunch since article is paywalled. ft.com/content/0dec02…
Yikes. More than half. Image
"Those aged 25 and under are 2.5 times more likely to be without a job because of the outbreak than the 26-64 age group, the OECD found."
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2 Nov
"Experts [in Bay Area] say they are seeing evidence of significant mental and physical problems among children who are out of school, including weight gain and increased rates of depression, anxiety, drug overdoses and suicidal thoughts among adolescents." nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…
"Among children aged 10-18 treated at the ER of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, the percentage screened positive for suicidal thoughts rose to 16% in September from 6% in March. 'We really, absolutely, have to consider that the cure might be worse than the disease.'"
"San Francisco currently has 4.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people, a little more than half the rate of new cases in NYC. The share of coronavirus tests coming back positive averaged 0.89 percent for the week ending Oct. 22, lower than NYC average of 1.8 percent for that week."
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2 Oct
Whoa:

Ford Foundation chief defended postponing an art show bc proceeding w/ it "would have appeared tone deaf to what is happening in public discourse about art."

~100 artists objected.

He then apologized. Not for the defense, but for using "tone-deaf," which was "ableist."
.@SebastianSmee: washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…
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30 Sep
Worth reckoning with this @sebastiansmee on the stunning National Gallery decision to postpone an exhibition of anti-racist artist Philp Guston because his paintings features images of hooded figures that viewers just can't handle at this moment in time. washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…
"I have read unfathomable doublespeak coming out of museum PR depts but this is the most ludicrous. The idea that work w/ a powerful msg of social & racial justice should have to wait until some future when they think our current tumult has been magically cleaned up is Orwellian"
"Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, supports decision to postpone: 'Not taking a step back to address these issues...would've appeared tone deaf to what is happening in discourse about art.' From such a force for good in the art world, this is deeply disappointing."
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23 Sep
Five yrs ago, @GovLarryHogan killed the new east-west transit line for Baltimore while approving a new line in the DC burbs. That project is now in chaos--the builders have walked away from it. To keep it going, MD will take $$ from...transit in Baltimore. washingtonpost.com/local/traffica…
Flashback to 2015 Washington Post editorial cheering the approval of the DC Purple Line: "Simultaneously, Mr. Hogan made another good call by killing a major transit project in Baltimore, the Red Line, which never made transportation or financial sense." washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gre…
The big-picture story of how we got here: placesjournal.org/article/the-th…
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18 Sep
"College enrollment trends so far show especially steep drops among Black students and rural white students...'The ultimate fear is this could be a lost generation of low-income students.'"
washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
"She doesn’t have WiFi at her rural home. The local library turned her away, not wanting anyone sitting around during the pandemic. She spent hours in a McDonalds lot using the Internet, but kept getting kicked off her college’s virtual classes because the network wasn’t 'safe.'"
"When he saw students huddled outside a Sheetz store trying to do their virtual classes on the store’s WiFi network, John “Ski” Sygielski, president of HACC, Central Pennsylvania Community College, realized just how much help his school would have to provide low-income students."
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