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COVID-19 School Closures Shine a Light on the Disparities That Exist for First-Gen and Low-Income Students

With the imminent threat of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), colleges across the country shut their doors to over 100,000 students. Many students returned home, but many students—mostly first-generation and...

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This School Year Will Not Be Measured by a Test Score

As the calendar turns to April, I typically end up asking myself the same question every school year—“will they remember?” In my case, that question is a result of transitioning instruction to...

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Millions of Low-Income Students Are Being Denied Access to Internet

Access to public education is now a fundamental right. All 50 states mandate public education in their state constitutions. Once states made public education compulsory, they became responsible under...

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Remote Learning Is Creating Unnecessary Anxiety for My Students Right Now

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 school, no friends, no teachers, no routine...

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It's Time to Acknowledge That This Is the New Normal

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 time before it impacts each of us in deeply...

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Our Teachers Are Not Okay. We Know This, And If We Don’t, We Should

The last week was stressful for all of us educators, and the coming weeks will provide us with even more challenges, I’m sure. This is my first year teaching at the collegiate level full-time after...

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