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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted, well, everything, but at times I find that I have more time to communicate, virtually if necessary, with family and fr

Access to public education is now a fundamental right. All 50 states mandate public education in their state constitutions. Once states made public educati

This year, there will be no more school bells. There will be no more pencils to sharpen or papers to pass out. There will be no end of the year awards asse

Last week I looked at the stark disparities in the quality of online instruction offered to children during the COVID-19 school closures, comparing Princet

Late this morning the U.S. Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or the CARES Act. The total tab is $2 trillion and includ

Is everybody doing okay?  Probably a silly question, but I really wanted to check-in on my American Sign Language (ASL) students. It was day three of no sc

Kasserianingera, this is a greeting of the Masai people of Africa, simply translated as, “And how are the children?” Because the Masai place their children

Public schools in Washington, D.C., shut down in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak at the end of the school day on March 13, 2020. They are curren

To call the last few weeks hard, unprecedented and surreal feels trite. We are facing a pandemic unlike any in the last century and it is only a matter of