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Hurricane Ida has closed schools for more than 250,000 students across Louisiana.

Education

Hurricane Ida's Impact On Students Could Be Worse Than Katrina, Expert Says

1:57pm September 03, 2021

by Anya Kamenetz

Many New Orleans area students had re-enrolled in other schools within two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. This time, one expert predicts "five or six weeks of essentially no learning happening."

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Alexis Nikole Nelson: How Foraging Restored My Relationship With Food

12:30pm September 03, 2021

Forager and TikTok influencer Alexis Nikole Nelson shares how the great outdoors has offered her both an endless array of food options and an outlet to reconnect with her food and her culture.

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HOUSTON, TEXAS - AUGUST 23: Students at the Xavier Academy, like many schools around Houston, are required to wear masks. Staff and faculty have been vaccinated and 90% of students in attendance have also been vaccinated.

6 Strategies To Make Classrooms Safer As The Delta Variant Spreads

11:31am September 03, 2021

by Maria Godoy

Research shows increasingly that layering one strategy on top of another can help minimize the spread of the coronavirus in classrooms.

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Jasmine Crowe: What Can We Do To Tackle Food Waste And Hunger?

9:28am September 03, 2021

Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe has one mission: feed more, waste less. Her company Goodr is tackling food waste and getting food to those who need it most.

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Amanda Little speaks at TED@Dell, October 22, 2020. Photo courtesy of TED.

Amanda Little: What Is The Future Of Our Food?

8:26am September 03, 2021

How should we ethically feed our world? Are we supposed to return to organic pastoral practices or trust new technology? Journalist Amanda Little believes the answer lies in the middle.

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It's Unclear When Public Schools Will Reopen In Hurricane-Battered New Orleans

6:17am September 03, 2021

As New Orleans recovers from Hurricane Ida a key piece of civic infrastructure may not resume functions for weeks: the public schools. NPR's A Martínez talks to Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr.

On Sunday, Bishop Sycamore High School lost to the second-ranked high school football team in the U.S., IMG Academy of Florida, 58-0.

People Are Wondering If An Ohio School Even Exists, After A Football Blowout On ESPN

4:57pm September 02, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

Questions continue to be raised about how the game was scheduled and whether the Columbus, Ohio, high school even exists.

Students wear mask as they arrive at school for in-person learning at Holmes Middle School in Wheeling, Ill., on Oct. 21, 2020. Students in Illinois schools will be able to take up to five excused mental or behavioral health days beginning in January 2022

Kids In Illinois Will Soon Be Able To Take 5 Mental Health Days From School

1:36pm September 02, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

Starting in January, students will be allowed to use their five mental health days without needing to provide a doctor's note for their absence.

Makiyah Hicks and Jonetta Harrison in front of their high school, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, in Washington, D.C. They are finalists in this year's NPR Student Podcast Challenge for their entry "Loss and Transformation."

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These Students Grew Up Around Gun Violence. They Decided It Was Time To Talk About It.

7:02am September 02, 2021

D.C. has long struggled with one of the highest rates of gun violence in the country. Three local students talked to their community about losing their loved ones and living with the grief.

A U.S. Air Force air crew prepares to load evacuees aboard a C-17 aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 31. Several public school students from Sacramento, Calif., remain in Afghanistan since the U.S. evacuation end

Several California Public School Students Are Still Trapped In Afghanistan

9:36pm September 01, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

The San Juan Unified School District in Sacramento, Calif., says officials believe some of the district's students have been able to leave since the U.S. evacuation ended Tuesday.