Education

News Brief: Senate Health Committee, U.K. Reopening Plan, College Lawsuit

5:59am May 11, 2020

Senate panel considers if it's safe for U.S. to reopen. Leaders in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales reject Boris Johnson's reopening plans. And, Florida Career College faces class-action lawsuit.

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Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on May 7. Cassidy says testing needs to be targeted.

Sen. Bill Cassidy On Reopening Schools: Children Are Paying A High Price At Home

5:51pm May 10, 2020

by James Doubek

"Children, they are paying the highest price relative to their risk of having a complication from coronavirus," the Louisiana senator tells Weekend Edition. He says testing needs to be targeted.

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What Recent College Graduates Are Going Through During The Pandemic, Continued

9:55pm May 08, 2020

by Elissa Nadworny

NPR's education reporter talks about what graduating seniors are going through right now as the colleges are closed due to the pandemic and answers their questions.

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What Recent College Graduates Are Going Through During The Pandemic

9:51pm May 08, 2020

by Elissa Nadworny

NPR's education reporter talks about what graduating seniors are going through right now as the colleges are closed due to the pandemic and answers their questions.

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French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron participate in a video conference with mayors and directors of schools at the Pierre Ronsard elementary school in Poissy, west of Paris, on Tuesday.

French Education Minister Says School Reopenings Will Be Done 'Very Progressively'

4:39pm May 08, 2020

by James Doubek

France's minister of education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, talked with NPR about the gradual reopening of schools, which will be voluntary. Still, many parents and administrators are against the plan.

France Is Planning A Partial Reopening Of Schools

4:01pm May 08, 2020

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jean-Michel Blanquer, French minister of education, about how France is planning to reopen primary schools on May 11.

And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School, by Judith Warner

Judith Warner's New Book On Middle School Suggests It Doesn't Have To Be All Bad

4:01pm May 08, 2020

by Mary Louise Kelly

The author of And Then They Stopped Talking To Me tells NPR, "I expected middle schoolers to be these sorts of monsters. And they weren't. They were just kids."

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Education

Small, Private Colleges Get Boost From Coronavirus Relief Funds

1:18pm May 08, 2020

Congress set aside $350 million to help colleges with "significant unmet needs" related to the pandemic. Most of that money has gone to small schools that serve just a fraction of U.S. students.

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Students Call College That Got Millions In Coronavirus Relief 'A Sham'

7:01am May 08, 2020

by Cory Turner

In a federal lawsuit, students accuse Florida Career College of breaking promises about career training and job placement. The for-profit school has been allotted $17 million in federal pandemic aid.

CDC Guidance For Reopening Schools, Child Care And Summer Camps Is Leaked

7:14pm May 07, 2020

by Anya Kamenetz

The document has been in the works for some time, but reports say the White House tried to suppress it.