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NYSSCA
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ASCA
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NYSUT
To help members during this anxious time, NYSUT's Education & Learning Trust is offering four free virtual seminars highlighting the need for self-care; how to help students succeed emotionally and academically; and practical tips for working from home. For NYSUT members interested in participating, see schedule of trainings and register starting on Monday, March 23 on elt.nysut.org.
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Washington Examiner
President Trump said that students would no longer be required to take federal standardized tests. "With many schools closed due to the virus, the Department of Education will not enforce standardized testing requirements, very importantly," Trump said. "For students in elementary through high school for the current year. They have been through a lot, they have been going back-and-forth, schools open, schools not open. ... Standardized testing and, you know, we are not going to be enforcing that." The president spoke during the White House's daily press briefing on the coronavirus.
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The Associated Press
Closing schools to combat the spread of the coronavirus is having a sweeping impact on an annual rite of spring: the standardized tests that are dreaded by millions of students and teachers alike. Several states have canceled standardized testing for this academic year as they face school closures that could last weeks or months. The tests were scheduled to begin in early April in many states. While that's easing the burden on students and teachers, it's also creating problems. The federal government requires states to perform annual standardized assessments under the Every Student Succeeds Act. And education groups warn that moving classes online won't deliver equitable learning across states, school districts and even within classrooms.
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Education Week
After Robbinsdale Armstrong High School, outside Minneapolis, shut down abruptly in response to a potential case of COVID-19, teachers and staff met one last time in person — while keeping six feet apart — to brainstorm ways to keep their students connected.
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THE Journal
With more states declaring a state of emergency, public and private K-12 schools are closing their doors and sending students, teachers and staff home to learn and work remotely. For some schools remote learning is not new, especially for private parochial schools. Many parochial schools have been using snow days and teacher professional development days for remote learning for many years. Public school systems have not followed their private school counterparts into remote learning.
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USA Today
Keiko Dilbeck, principal of Kino Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, feels sick to her stomach every time her students leave for a break. She worries about their lives at home and how much they could lose academically. And she knows they worry, too — about whether they'll have enough food, about whether a parent will be around to take care of them. Some even worry if they'll have a place to sleep.
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Disability Scoop
As schools across the nation shutter in response to coronavirus, federal officials are giving educators additional insight on how to handle the needs of students with disabilities. The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights issued a webinar and fact sheet this week for education leaders aimed at ensuring that students' civil rights are upheld while schools are closed due to COVID-19.
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By: Angela Cleveland (commentary)
 "I fought really hard to get here," she said with tears filling her eyes. "I’m in my first internship and not only am I the only woman there, but I'm the only person of color. I don't belong in this field." I sat across the auditorium, stunned by this statement from a fellow audience member. I was at a forum discussion about women in the computing workforce at Spelman College. I was shaken by what I was hearing. Was it possible that the number of women in computer science is really that imbalanced? Sadly, the answer is yes.
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District Administration Magazine
On March 11, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. In just a matter of days, our world took an unexpected turn. Professional and collegiate athletics started being postponed for weeks, or even months. "Social distancing" became a household phrase. And the world of academia was put on hold for the foreseeable future; some college campuses have been vacated for the year and some K-12 schools have locked their doors. For many of us in K-12, school closings aren't abnormal; snowfall has dictated the uncertainty of a summer release for decades. But for students and educators to go from an unexpected day off to a complete shutdown for multiple weeks is uncharted water.
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Education Next
Parents, educators, and policymakers all believe school quality matters. But what is school quality? The Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, lays out a few required indicators, including, in the case of high schools, graduation rates. But graduation rates, like test scores and other commonly used quality measures, reflect not only school quality but students' household incomes, neighborhoods, and family backgrounds and the impacts of structural racism. Schools with large shares of students from historically underserved groups or students who live in poverty tend to have lower graduation rates than wealthier white schools, through no fault of their own.
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Chalkbeat
It was a Tuesday like no other. Crosswalks were empty. Children's backpacks and lunch boxes sat unused. Yellow buses weren't rumbling down many streets, and school doors didn't swing open at dismissal. Schools were closed from New York to San Jose and so many points in between, causing an unprecedented disruption to American life with no end in sight.
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CNN
Classrooms will be empty from coast to coast in the coming weeks as the novel coronavirus spreads and officials say indefinite closures are a real possibility. If schools were to shut down long term, one of the greatest challenges for teachers, officials and school administrators would come down to ensuring all students have equal education opportunities and that their food and housing security is not put in jeopardy. More than 1.5 million public school students in the United States experienced homelessness during the 2017-2018 school year, according to a recent report by the National Center for Homeless Education. Many more students are considered underserved.
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We Are Teachers
Wow. If you're anything like me, you're experiencing a lot of different emotions right now. But chances are we are all marveling at how different the world looks than it did a few weeks, days, even hours ago. Big events canceled. Travel bans. School closures. Toilet paper becoming the nation's hottest commodity.
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By: Linda Popky (commentary)
 As the coronavirus crisis escalates, more and more restrictions are being put in place: no large gatherings, no in-person classes at school, no sporting events, avoid air travel, cancel unnecessary meetings, etc. Many employers have closed their campuses and required employees to work from home — when they can. Many industries, like retail, hospitality, and personal services, can't just be packaged up and run remotely. But there are many others that could provide remote services — but have just never made it part of their offerings.
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The 74
Since a school district in suburban Seattle closed as the coronavirus pandemic intensified, Jen Cole has worried that her 9-year-old son Gabriel, who has a developmental disability, could regress. During previous summer breaks, the Mukilteo School District provided an extended school year to Gabriel, a second-grader with atypical William's Syndrome who receives special education services that include tailored instruction, occupational therapy and speech language therapy. When campuses shuttered last week, the Mukilteo superintendent told parents that schools could go dark for "weeks to months."
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The Hechinger Report
Like it or not, we are suddenly a nation of home schoolers, with little preparation. The rapidly spreading coronavirus is instantly changing the way education is delivered, as school and home become the same place. Millions more children and families are involuntarily joining the 1.7 million kids already home-schooled by choice. "How to homeschool" is trending on Google. For many families, the switch is a crippling inconvenience. For others, it's an even bigger catastrophe: they may not be able to afford proper meals for their children, much less the technology and connectivity needed for online learning.
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Edutopia (commentary)
An American whose classroom in Beijing is now online shares what she and her team have learned since the coronavirus hit, just as U.S. teachers make the same shift.
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HealthDay News
A new Chinese study of coronavirus infection in kids could bring comfort to American parents — and highlight the wisdom of at least temporarily closing schools. That's because the study, published March 13 in Nature Medicine, found that even though children typically only exhibit mild symptoms if infected, they can shed the coronavirus long after symptoms disappear. Across the United States, local school districts have been temporarily suspending classroom activity, instead opting for online, at-home instruction.
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Education Week
As the nation shifts to online learning during the novel coronavirus outbreak, language and access barriers may shut many of the nation's nearly English learner students out of the learning process. A December 2019 report from the U.S. Department of Education found that few teachers reported assigning English learners to use digital learning resources outside of class, in part because of concerns about students' lack of access to technology at home.
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The Hechinger Report
We think of the teen years as a worrisome period when some kids can spiral downward, developing anxieties and addictions. But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period.
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Tech&Learning
Common Sense has launched two new webpages compiling extensive resources for parents and educators with best practices for learning at home, keeping kids supervised and engaged, safeguarding physical and mental wellness, and more.
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Language Magazine
With COVID-19 causing widespread school closures, children across the country are being given alternate resources, some online, to study outside of the classroom. Temporary solutions being devised for remote education range from online classroom tools like Google Classroom, to Zoom and podcasts by teachers. While parents are adjusting to this new scenario, during this time it's also important to help kids stay focused on learning and avoid overuse of games, social media and videos.
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