This is Teacher Appreciation Week, and Virginia Commonwealth University says a number of its graduates deserve special thanks. They serve in the state’s poorest schools – places where resources are limited and teacher-turnover is high.
Two new reports suggest Virginia schools are increasingly segregated by race and economic status. For many kids that means less access to educational opportunities.
The mild 2020-21 flu season offered a bit of relief amid the hundreds of thousands of deaths from the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean it will be the same during the next flu season.
After a year of deaths from COVID-19, researchers say that the toll is significantly higher, from both unaccounted deaths from COVID and mortality indirectly caused by the pandemic.
