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The most grotesque and least surprising headline of these coronavirus times reads: Harvard Grabs Nearly $9 Million in Stimulus Aid. Actually the precise figure is $8,655,748, every last penny undoubtedly being banked by a small army of university accountants at this very moment.
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A Harvard Law School professor is calling for what she calls a "presumptive ban" on homeschooling nationwide. Elizabeth Bartholet, an expert on children's rights and reproductive technology, makes the case in a recent law review article for changing the system in the United States from assuming
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One month in as a remote teacher, I can tell you which two groups of my students are succeeding. There are the ones who always do well because of ability, accountability, and motivation. And there are the former home-schoolers. Some students fall in both groups, but even my "average&
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has ordered all public and private schools in the state closed through the end of the school year. The governor's announcement during a press conference Tuesday, April 21 had been hinted at in recent days.
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Public school classes have not taken place in Boston since Monday, March 16 because of the coronavirus pandemic. So far, neither have any formal online classes for the district's more than 54,000 students. Even so, teachers are still being paid as usual.
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Only a small percentage of students and parents across the state do it, but supporters of homeschooling say the coronavirus pandemic could change the way some Massachusetts students are educated long-term. As of the 2017-2018 school year, just 3.04 percent of the Bay State's K-12 students were
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Within weeks, the Coronavirus shutdown will draw to its inevitable conclusion. Life will settle into a new normal. In the long run, very likely our lives will change modestly. Perhaps we'll maintain a modified "social distance," becoming more like the Victorians and less like modern "
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Following up on my suggestion of small church services through online signup to get around coronavirus restrictions, a reader suggested outdoor Masses. That got me to thinking of what Irish Catholics did during penal times. Mass was illegal and persecuted in Ireland from around the 1650s to the 1750s, as
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