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Mar 2020
19m 23s

Today's Pandemic, Tomorrow's Lesson

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Host Arun Rath speaks with Gina Garro, a first grade teacher at the Garfield Elementary School in Revere, Massachusetts about the challenges of creating meaningful lesson plans for students while they learn from home for the next few weeks. Next, we hear from Boston University business school lecturer Jay Zagorsky on how people can use this time at home to enhance their skills to enter what he predicts will be a future booming job market.

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