Education

As schools debate COVID safety, students stage walkouts to voice demands

5:19pm January 23, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ian McNeely, a Maryland high school student who helped organize a walkout calling for better COVID safety measures at his school.

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Seventh and eighth grade students attend class at Olive Vista Middle School on Jan. 11 in Sylmar, Calif. Los Angeles students will be required to wear non-cloth masks.

Los Angeles school district tells students to upgrade from cloth masks

3:40pm January 23, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

Students will have to wear "well-fitting, non-cloth masks with a nose wire." Employees will have to wear surgical grade masks or higher.

Education

This Virginia high schooler is pushing to see more women of color in their curriculum

7:59am January 23, 2022

by Sarah McCammon

Sarah McCammon talks with Prasidha Padmanabhan, an 11th grader in Fairfax County, Va., about her efforts to get her school district to include more women's history in the curriculum.

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College students return to campus for the Spring semester.

How colleges are dealing with high COVID case counts on campus

6:02am January 23, 2022

Despite the omicron surge, college students are starting the spring semester on campus – and administrators are bracing for the worst.

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Sen. Barbara Blackmon, D-Canton, speaks at the well in the Mississippi Senate Chamber in Jackson on Thursday. Blackmon was among the Black lawmakers who walked out of the Senate Chamber in protest on Friday.

Black Mississippi senators walk out in protest over critical race theory ban

9:42am January 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

The lawmakers withheld their votes as the state Senate passed a bill that would ban schools from teaching critical race theory. The education superintendent has said it is not being taught in schools.

Rupali Limaye is a behavioral and social scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

How to talk to vaccine doubters: 5 tips for parent 'ambassadors'

7:45am January 22, 2022

by Anya Kamenetz

A health communications expert has developed a free online course to help people talk to those who are vaccine hesitant — and to fight misinformation with empathy.

Student loan payments resume in May. Here are 7 ways to prepare

4:15pm January 21, 2022

by Elissa Nadworny

First things first: Get acquainted (or reacquainted) with your loans. And don't count on blanket loan forgiveness.

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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced efforts to temporarily employ National Guard troops and state workers as substitute teachers and child care center workers during a news conference at Sante Fe High School in Santa Fe, N.M., on Tuesday.

Education

New Mexico is calling on the National Guard to fill in as substitute teachers

2:55pm January 21, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a new initiative to help schools and child care facilities that are experiencing "extreme" staffing shortages. The plan also taps state employees.

Dave Eggers: How Can Kids Learn Human Skills in a Tech-Dominated World?

10:07am January 21, 2022

Fiction can serve as a window into multiple realities--to imagine different futures or understand our own past. This hour, author Dave Eggers talks tech, education, and the healing power of writing.

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Survivor Jon Vaughn on U. of Michigan's sexual assault settlement

6:07pm January 20, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with ex football player and sexual assault survivor Jon Vaughn about the University of Michigan's settlement over allegations of abuse by a former sports doctor.

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