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How should teachers respond when a colleague says or does something — knowingly or unknowingly — that is racist? Today,  Dr. Sawsan Jaber, Denise Fawcett Facey,  and Felicia Darling "wrap up" this three-part series with their thoughts.

What has your online learning experience been as a student this fall?  What is working for you and why?  What is not working for you and why? 

This new series will highlight contributions from students in Larry Ferlazzo's classes.

When so much is out of our control, the act of volunteering puts some control back in our hands. And with the normal rhythms of life still very much disrupted, it’s a good way to occupy and engage children who might otherwise feel stuck. For families who want to volunteer in this new landscape, what options are there? Quite a few, says Karen Daniel, vice president of programs at Youth Service America. “We have a project ideas database on our website, where people can search by the issue area that they care about and by their spark, which is what they love to do. We really believe in helping kids start with something they love so that the project is fun for them, too.”

 A Hechinger Report/Associated Press analysis of career and technical education enrollment data from 40 states reveals deep racial disparities in who takes these career-oriented courses. Black and Latino students were often less likely than their white peers to enroll in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and information technology classes, according to the analysis, which was based primarily on 2017-18 data. Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. 

New York City school buildings will shut down Thursday in an aggressive attempt to fight off another surge of the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio and schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced.

Newark students recently shared some of the challenges of attending school remotely during a virtual chat with their mayor, where they discussed the isolation of online learning, the frustration of heavy workloads, and the strain of being a teenager during a global pandemic.

Generous family leave time. Reduced tuition for child care programs. Fewer requirements to receive government support. These are some of the policies other countries have taken to ease the burden on parents or providers during the coronavirus pandemic, some of which come from nations that have long been supportive of children and their families, according to a new brief from the  National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE).

The racial and ethnic makeup of school boards rarely matches that of the students in the schools they are responsible for. Yet a growing body of research suggests having more diverse school boards can make concrete differences in how schools operate. Some studies suggest, in fact, that having just one minority member on a board increases a school district’s financial investment in high-minority schools, and even some measures of student achievement and student climate. But at a time when the student population is growing more diverse, most school boards across the country don’t meet even that low bar, according to a new survey by the EdWeek Research Center.