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Commentary Higher Education

How Gutting the U.S. Department of Education Would Hurt Students and Their Families

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NEW EAGLE, PA - SEPTEMBER 24: A plume of exhaust extends from the Mitchell Power Station, a coal-fired power plant built along the Monongahela River, 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, on September 24, 2013 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania. The plant, owned by FirstEnergy, will be one of two plants in the region to be shut down, affecting 380 employees. The Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Obama administration have been taking major steps to get coal-fired power plants into compliance with clean air regulations. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Commentary Rights & Justice

Environmental Racism Has Left Black Communities Especially Vulnerable to COVID-19

VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 09: A boy wears a face mask as food is delivered to his truck at a Food Bank distribution for those in need as the coronavirus pandemic continues on April 9, 2020 in Van Nuys, California. Organizers said they had distributed food for 1,500 families amid the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Commentary Rediscovering Government

A Better Child Tax Credit During the COVID-19 Crisis

STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT - APRIL 18: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Recovering from COVID-19, Guatemalan immigrant Junior, 7, tries to log-in to his school ChromeBook on April 18, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. He and his father Marvin have been sick and in quarantine at home for several weeks. His mother, Zully, a Guatemalan asylum seeker also sick with COVID-19, gave birth to baby boy named Neysel by emergency C-section at Stamford Hospital. Junior's Bilingual /ESL teacher Luciana Lira at Hart Magnet Elementary in Stamford, became temporary guardian for the newborn, while the family recovers. Lira continues remote teaching her elementary school students, while also caring for the infant at home. She plans to continue doing so until the Guatemalan family all test negative for the virus and can care for the child themselves. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Commentary Early Education

English Learners Are Home with Their Home Languages, and That’s Okay

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Report K - 12

Expanding Access to Summer Learning in Response to COVID-19

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS - MARCH 12: A student walks through Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University on March 12, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Students have been asked to move out of their dorms by March 15 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) risk. All classes will be moved online for the rest of the spring semester. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Commentary Higher Education

What Does Pandemic Unemployment Insurance Mean for College Students?

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 14: A public school stands closed on April 14, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. According to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City’s public schools will remain closed through the end of the academic year because of the coronavirus. But following that statement, Governor Andrew Cuomo, who often disputes with the mayor, stated that the final decision on how long schools will be closed was his. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Commentary Early Education

NYC Schools Should Drop Admissions Screens for Upcoming Year

Commentary Rediscovering Government

Direct Payroll Subsidies Are Next Dose of Economic Medicine Needed for COVID-19

Commentary Unemployment

Skyrocketing Unemployment Claims Widens Medicaid Gap

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS - MARCH 12: Sophomore Sadia Demby moves her belongings through Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University on March 12, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Students have been asked to move out of their dorms by March 15 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) risk. All classes will be moved online for the rest of the spring semester. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Report Higher Education

How Colleges Can Advance Equity with CARES Act Emergency Student Aid

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 25: People participate in an affordable child care rally at the U.S. Capitol, on April 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. The group Child Care Aware rallied to raise awareness of the need for quality, affordable child care that is accessible for all families. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Commentary Care Economy

States Are Stepping Up with Emergency Child Care Solutions for Frontline Essential Personnel in Response to COVID-19

STAMFORD, - MARCH 17: Bilingual teacher Maria Sanislo (R) explains a Google Chromebook to a family at KT Murphy Elementary School on March 17, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. Stamford Public Schools closed last week to help slow the spread of COVID-19, and students are now

Commentary COVID-19

What Schools Need Now Is Internet for All, and Teachers to the Front

HIALEAH, FLORIDA - APRIL 08: An unemployment application is seen in a box as City of Hialeah employees hand them out to people in front of the John F. Kennedy Library on April 08, 2020 in Hialeah, Florida. The city is distributing the printed unemployment forms to residents as people continue to have issues with access to the state of Florida’s unemployment website in the midst of widespread layoffs due to businesses closing during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Commentary Unemployment

New Data Show Unemployment Programs Delivering Aid, but Struggling with Record Demand

SEATTLE, WA - MARCH 06: Students at the University of Washington are on campus for the last day of in-person classes on March 6, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. The University will close starting Monday, March 9, as a precautionary reaction to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, outbreak for the remainder of the winter quarter. (Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images)

Commentary Higher Education

To Monitor for Colleges That May Soon Fold, Look to Liquidity

25th June 1949: A Palestinian refugee camp near the shores of the Dead Sea in Jordan, in the year following the Arab Israeli War which marked the creation of the State of Israel. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4818 - Who'll Help The Refugee Arabs? - pub. 1949 (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Report Middle East

Neither Intractable nor Unique: A Practical Solution for Palestinian Right of Return

Commentary Middle East

Order from Ashes Podcast: Lebanon, Neoliberalism’s Proving Ground

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