Learning in the Time of COVID

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ICE has announced that full-time international students at US colleges and universities who are taking more than one course or three credits online must transfer institutions (generally impossible in a short time frame) or return to their home countries (which may have their borders closed to travelers from the U.S.). This applies even if a school starts in-person and then switches to online courses because in-person instruction becomes unsafe. This puts international students in the bind of having to risk their own and others’ health in order to comply, if they even can, or losing access to their education.

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Police-Free Schools

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For years, Black activists have worked to raise awareness of the school-to-prison pipeline and the ways in which police officers in schools make students—particularly students of color—less safe. This week we join them in calling for schools to invest in counselors, restorative justice, and other measures to avoid law enforcement involvement on school grounds.

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Justice for Breonna Taylor

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Sometimes systemic racism is captured in statistical data: for instance, over one-third of unarmed people killed by police are Black, even though Black people make up only 13% of the US population. Sometimes systemic racism is captured in individual stories. Today’s edition is devoted to one woman’s story, the life and tragic death of Breonna Taylor.

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