Inside teachers' never-ending crisis shifts: 'You just keep going all day and all night'
Handing out food, hunting down students, organizing distance learning. This is one day in the life of an Inglewood teacher during the coronavirus crisis. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - April 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Paloma Esquivel Source Type: news
Startling disparities in digital learning emerge as COVID-19 spreads: UN education agency
With most of the world’s students now at home due to COVID-19, the pandemic is revealing startling divides in digitally-based distance learning, data from the UN education and cultural agency, UNESCO, and partners has revealed. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - April 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Students are in 'desperate need' of computers amid coronavirus distance learning
Coronavirus: Gov. Newsom announced donations and other efforts to provide computers to students during closures, but it falls far short (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - April 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Howard Blume, Paloma Esquivel, Sonali Kohli Source Type: news
Virus forced schools online, but many students didn't follow
Nearly a month after schools shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many are struggling with distance learning (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Adapting smartwatches to improve distance learning and health
(University of Houston) Stress sweat gives signals about your cognitive and emotional states that can be measured by a smarter watch being developed by University of Houston engineer Rose Faghih. Those signals can help create a better online learning experiences and health outcomes. For her project, Faghih has won the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
The Fierce Urgency of Now
By Yasmine SherifApr 9 2020 (IPS-Partners) We are living in a crisis unprecedented since World War II: COVID-19. The pandemic brutally sweeps across the globe, where we already face a massive global learning crisis and multiple brutal humanitarian crises. How much more can those left furthest behind in forced displacement and armed conflicts take?
Across 26 countries of conflicts and forced displacement, host-governments are now struggling to find solutions for the 230 million estimated children and youth out of school, not the least the girls who are the most marginalized. UN agencies and civil society are trying their b...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yasmine Sherif Tags: Education Health Source Type: news
How Peg + Cat can be a math class during coronovirus school closures
During coronavirus school closures PBS offers distance learning on TV and online for students. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - April 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Arit John Source Type: news
USDA Announces Second Application Window for Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program Funding
Bette Brand, Deputy Under Secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, announced a second application window for funding under the Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grant program. Only electronic applications will be accepted between the April 14 and July 13, 2020 window. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - April 3, 2020 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
51 Residents at a California Nursing Home Test Positive for Coronavirus
(LOS ANGELES) — A Southern California nursing home has been hit hard by the coronavirus, with more than 50 residents infected — a troubling development amid cautious optimism that cases in the state may peak more slowly than expected.
Cedar Mountain Post Acute Rehabilitation in Yucaipa has been told to assume that all of its patients have the COVID-19 virus, San Bernardino County Department of Public Health Director Trudy Raymundo said. As of Tuesday, 51 residents and six staff members had tested positive. Two patients have died, including an 82-year-old woman who had existing health problems.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert Jablon / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 News Desk overnight Source Type: news
Education Cannot Wait Interviews Henrietta H. Fore, Unicef Executive Director
Henrietta H. Fore, Executive Director, UNICEFBy External SourceApr 1 2020 (IPS-Partners) Henrietta H. Fore became UNICEF’s seventh Executive Director on 1 January 2018. She has worked to champion economic development, education, health, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in a public service, private sector and non-profit leadership career that spans more than four decades.
From 2007 to 2009, Ms. Fore served as the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Director of United States Foreign Assistance. The first woman to serve in these roles, she was responsible for managing $39.5...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Education Health Source Type: news
COVID-19 and Education in Emergencies
Credit: Education Cannot Wait By External SourceMar 31 2020 (IPS-Partners) Armed conflicts, forced displacement, climate change induced disasters and protracted crises have disrupted the education of 75 million children and youth globally. And that number is growing in an unprecedented way with the spread of COVID-19. Education has been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic with 1.53 billion learners out of school and 184 country-wide school closures, impacting 87.6% of the world’s total enrolled learners. Drop-out rates across the globe are likely to rise as a result of this massive disruption to education acce...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Education Health Source Type: news
15,000 L.A. high school students are AWOL online, 40,000 fail to check in daily amid coronavirus closures
With campuses closed due to the pandemic, LAUSD is struggling with distance learning. Only two-thirds of high school students are participating daily. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 31, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Howard Blume, Sonali Kohli Source Type: news
School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students
The pandemic that launched a massive, unplanned experiment with distance learning has created extraordinary hurdles for schoolchildren left behind by the digital divide (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Stay-at-home order will start Friday at midnight, Walz says; restaurants closed until May 1
Gov. Tim Walz announced a stay-at-home order on Wednesday that will take effect Friday at midnight. That order, which says Minnesotans must refrain from leaving their homes, will continue until April 10 to stop the spread of the novel cornavirus that causes COVID-19.
Bars, restaurants and other businesses where large numbers of people gather will remain closed until May 1. Schools will go forward with a distance-learning curriculum starting March 30 and lasting until May 4.
"Together we've done… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 25, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Carrigan Miller Source Type: news
Marge knows best. How 'The Simpsons' inspires one L.A. mom in quarantine
A mom of three teens focuses on meals, distance learning and games of Quiplash as the coronavirus quarantine means a whole lot of family time. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Margaret Gray Source Type: news
