Sandra Plantz, an administrator at Gallia County Local Schools for more than 20 years, oversees areas as diverse as Title I reading remediation and federal grants for all seven of the district’s schools. In recent years, though, she has leaned in hard on a role that is overlooked in many districts: homeless liaison.
Ms. Plantz’s district, in rural Ohio, ser ... Show More
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The ‘Ghost Fleets’ Moving Oil Around the World
Since December, the U.S. has been stopping and seizing oil tankers traveling in and out of Venezuela. They are part of what is known as a ghost fleet — tankers that try to secretly move oil around the world, funding states such as Venezuela, Iran and Russia.Christiaan Triebert, a ... Show More
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Sep 2020
Good Morning de New York, où la rentrée scolaire divise en plein Covid-19
<p>La rentrée scolaire à New York se déroule en plusieurs étapes. Cette semaine, ce sont les écoles maternelles qui rouvrent. En tout, la ville compte plus d’un million et demi d’écoliers. Une reprise loin de se passer en douceur. New York a été durement frappée par le coronaviru ... Show More
3m 58s
Sep 2020
School Is Off To A Slow Start, And It's Going To Be A Long Year
With Labor Day weekend gone, summer is unofficially over — and millions of children head back to school this week, many virtually. Two teachers — Rosie Reid in California and Lynette Stant in Arizona — share how things are going in their schools so far. Many states have decided t ... Show More
12m 22s
Sep 2023
La escuela menguante: por qué si hay menos alumnos no se nota en los recursos
<p>La caída de la natalidad de las últimas décadas se ve en las aulas de infantil y primaria, las que tradicionalmente conforman los colegios, que esta semana vuelven a abrir. La inmigración amortigua algo que cada vez haya menos niños y niñas, pero no compensa. Eso sí, no afecta ... Show More
15m 59s
Aug 2023
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)
An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and policies of care that fail them. Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England (MIT Press, 2023) is an ethnographic portrait of fam ... Show More
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