Six on Schools: Teachers across America confront a thorny question: How to talk about coronavirus in class?; Brooklyn teacher at center of coronavirus scare reveals gaps in NYC response; The Best & Most Useful Free Student Hand-Outs Available Online;
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"Hester nodded. She made several promises: By lesson’s end, she said, her students would understand the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic. They would know whether a virus is alive (it’s not). They would leave class less scared of the coronavirus, she vowed, and better equipped to fight its spread.
“We are going to learn about the coronavirus so we can be prepared,” Hester said. “The best way to prepare is to educate people.”
It’s a challenge confronting teachers across the nation as the flu-like illness, which originated in China at the end of last year, veers rapidly toward pandemic status. This week, infections soared to more than 113,000 in more than 100 countries, and deaths climbed to about 4,000 worldwide.
The virus is infecting America, too: More than 600 cases of the disease have been reported in the United States, in more than 30 states and the District, with 22 deaths.
“Coronavirus is dominating classroom discussions,” said Jaclyn Reeves-Pepin, executive director of the National Association of Biology Teachers. “And there hasn’t been a lot of good information, especially online, so we’re all just kind of playing catch up.”
Rampant false information — for example, exaggerated estimates of the virus’s mortality rate or advertisements for fake cures — has ricocheted across the Internet in recent weeks, fueling anxiety. The phenomenon is especially pronounced among young people, said Ingrid Katz, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor who studies infectious diseases, because teens tend to glean their news from social media platforms."
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Horrible story about how a NYC teacher who had symptoms & had visited Italy had to wait days to be tested; meanwhile was treated horribly by NYC Health Dept. & others; when finally tested had to wait 4 hours in an empty room w/no bed or chair https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/03/09/brooklyn-teacher-at-center-of-coronavirus-scare-reveals-gaps-in-nyc-response/
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"Lesson 2: Deep listening is hard to come by.
As a society, we’re not taught how to listen. Instead, what’s celebrated is our ability to speak up. This is curious, since listening may be the single most important trait for personal and professional relationships. Listening entails being fully present when speaking with someone, giving them your undivided attention and not judging or overanalyzing what’s being said. It’s almost as if you put your egoic self to rest and you allow yourself to just listen."
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"By 1976, state felony disenfranchisement laws had excluded 1.17 million citizens from voting throughout the U.S. By 2016, the number of disenfranchised felons had grown to 6.1 million as a result of policies leading to mass incarceration.
In 2013, the Supreme Court decision in Shelby v. Holder weakened the enforcement provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. States began to enact restrictive laws around postal addresses, polling places and identification laws. As recently as 2018, five states advanced bills to restrict voting rights.
As Selma’s Amelia Boynton reminded us in her historic 1964 race for Congress, “A voteless people is a hopeless people.” Educating, motivating and activating students on the right to vote is central to our future as a nation.
We can use everything within our power–a cadre of dedicated yet under-resourced teachers, the power of the internet, the accessibility of film–to capture the spirit of youth activism and promote change.
Or we can gloss over the past and be complicit in fostering the divisions and inequality that run rampant today. The decision is ours."
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