• Morning Edition

  School Reopenings Should Keep Public Health In Mind, Pediatric Group Says

  NPR's David Greene talks to Sally Goza, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, who was at the White House Tuesday when President Trump announced he is urging schools to reopen in the fall.

• Morning Edition

  We Are Repeating Discrimination Experiment Every Day, Educator Says

  NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Jane Elliott, who created the blue-eyes/brown-eyes classroom experiment in 1968 to teach students about racism. It was so enlightening, she repeated it for decades.
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  All Things Considered

  Why U.S. Schools Are Still Segregated — And One Idea To Help Change That

  Rebecca Sibilia, founder of EdBuild, says a Supreme Court case shaped a funding model for public schools that reinforces inequity. She tells All Things Considered about a new model that could help.

• All Things Considered

  How Teachers Are Thinking About Reopening Schools

  NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with three teachers — Maxie Hollingsworth, Mariah Najmuddin and Karen Lloyd — to hear how they're thinking about schools reopening amid a global pandemic.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  UW plans to welcome some students back to campus in the fall

  A letter sent by university president Anna Mari Cauce on Monday pointed to a hybrid approach to resuming classes starting September 30. Some courses will remain online and some will be available in person.

• All Things Considered

  Why A History Professor Says 'Racist' Emancipation Memorial Shouldn't Come Down

  Protesters want to remove the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Yale history professor David Blight about why he thinks the memorial should stay up.
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  TED Radio Hour

  A.J. Jacobs: How Can We Thank Those We Take for Granted?

  How many people helped make your morning coffee? A.J. Jacobs set out to thank them—from the farmer to the barista and everyone in between—and discovered the list was much longer than he thought.
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  All Things Considered

  Education Dept. Rule Limits How Schools Can Spend Vital Aid Money

  U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos signaled she is standing firm on her intention to reroute millions of dollars in coronavirus aid money to K-12 private school students.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  'I can't breathe': A 2nd-grader. A security guard. A Seattle school.

  The Seattle School Board has voted to suspend the placement of police in schools in response to police brutality, especially against Black people and children. Security guards, however, far outnumber cops in Seattle schools. Some say the district should also reexamine the way it uses security guards to police student behavior - even in the youngest grades.
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  RadioActive

  For students of color, Covid-19 reveals deep inequities in Seattle area schools

  High school looks different this year for most students: classes on Zoom, drive-through graduations, social distance birthday parties, skipped proms. But some students have more pressing worries as classes move online. How do you make the switch to online learning when you don’t have wifi at home? RadioActive’s Mimi Zekaryas and Essey Paulos look at the education gaps between white students and students of color, as well as schools in wealthy areas and those where most students come from low-income households.

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