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Supreme Court hears Maine case about state funds being used for religious education

The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could expand state aid to religious schools. On one side is the school choice movement, and on the other is Maine, defending its public education.
- Nina Totenberg
Some lockdown drills can harm students' mental health. Here's what one expert advises

The shooting at Oxford, Mich., drew attention to the school's lockdown drills and how students were trained to respond to such crises. But certain high-intensity drills can have negative impacts, too.
- Rachel Treisman
Thousands of Seattle child care workers will get Covid "thank you" cash

About 3,500 Seattle child care workers will get holiday gifts from the city - as much as $835 each to thank them for caring for the city’s kids during the pandemic.
- Ann Dornfeld
Biden pledged to forgive $10,000 in student loan debt. Here's what he's done so far

President Biden provided hundreds of thousands of borrowers with debt relief this year — but his campaign promise to cancel at least $10,000 of student debt per person remains unfulfilled.
- Cory Turner
3 Bellevue students say they told school leaders about abuse, sexual misconduct, but response was lacking

This story contains depictions of sexual violence. Three years ago, at Interlake High School in Bellevue, student Priyal Sahai said she was cornered and groped by another student in the girl’s bathroom. When she told an assistant principal what happened, Sahai said he told her to give the teen boy “grace” — that he was going through a rough time.
- Ashley Hiruko
Loretta J. Ross: What if we called people in, rather than calling them out?

How can we have more productive conversations with people we vehemently disagree with? Civil rights activist Loretta J. Ross gives us the tools to call people in—instead of calling them out.
- Manoush Zomorodi
Colleges with high vaccination rates must now decide if they'll require boosters

Wesleyan University is among a small group of colleges requiring COVID-19 boosters for spring semester. Will other institutions follow?
- Elissa Nadworny
‘The science isn’t complicated.’ An investigative reporter details the effects of climate change disinformation in public education

‘We’re pumping millions of tons of warming pollutants into the atmosphere every day. The trick is, you don’t need very much of the population to doubt it to stop action.’
- John O'Brien
New Delhi is closing schools as it tries to deal with air pollution

Kids in Delhi, India, have been indoors for 20 months –- first for COVID, now for smog beyond four times what's safe. Officials have installed towers to filter it, but scientists say they don't work.
- Lauren Frayer
Who belongs at a women's college in 2021? Students want admissions policies to change

Women's colleges have adapted admissions policies for a generation that increasingly identifies as nonbinary. Hollins University's exclusion of nonbinary applicants has raised hackles.
- Melissa Block

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