Problems

When Luis Pedroso, who emigrated from Portugal as a child, was attending the Lowell Public Schools, he sometimes struggled with math homework. “When I went home, I didn’t…
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Here’s what you need to know:VideotranscriptBacktranscript‘More People May Die, If We Don’t Coordinate,’ Biden SaysOn Monday, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. delivered a briefing on his economic agenda, focusing on his plans for…
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As units across UB make changes to advance racial justice, many instructors are seeking advice on how to make their teaching and curriculum more inclusive.To support these efforts, the Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIX) and unit…
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On a recent morning, Citlali Medina Cruz logged onto her iPad to take a test for her 12th grade government class, sitting at a desk in her bedroom surrounded by family photos and images of Christ and the Virgin Mary. In the kitchen, her…
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Many people know that how they sleep affects their mood and how productive they are the next day, but they may not realize that when it comes to teens and children, their sleep patterns can help determine their successes later in…
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This past spring, school districts nationwide were thrown overnight into an unprecedented experiment in remote learning. If we are honest with ourselves, the experiment deserves a failing grade.Students lost months of academic progress,…
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“Against the Odds” was written by Cristina Rouvalis and originally published in the Fall 2020 edition of Pitt Magazine, the University of Pittsburgh’s alumni publication. You can view the article here. Elayne Arrington has come to the…
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Many students, it seems, have been happy to be back in class this fall. One of the informal findings in School District 71 so far has been that more have been showing up to class, following a spring in which the coronavirus…
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The federal government is the primary lender for students who borrow money for college and graduate school, and the Education Department directly holds more than $1.4 trillion in student debt. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s…
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