How can we help? There is something so lonely about getting an education in 2020.

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Dear reader,Liz Willen

There is something so lonely about getting an education in 2020. While reporting a story last month, I met a 6-year-old who hadn’t stepped foot inside a classroom since March. “I really need some friends,” she told me. Sadly, decades of underfunding and neglect ([link removed]) have left too many school buildings unsafe to welcome students back.

On the college level, countless numbers of students are spending freshman year in their childhood bedrooms instead of on the leafy campuses of their dreams. ([link removed])

There are, however, some silver linings on the horizon. Former LaGuardia Community College President Gail Mellow is among those excited about welcoming incoming first lady Jill Biden ([link removed]) as “first professor” to the White House. And across the U.S., students inspired by the leadership of Anthony Fauci ([link removed]) are applying to medical schools in record numbers.

These are some of the stories we bring you this week. I’m hoping they leave you inspired, and that you’ll consider a donation ([link removed]) to The Hechinger Report, in honor of #GivingNewsDay.
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Main Idea


** Rundown schools forced more students to go remote ([link removed])
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Government refused to fund crumbling schools for years. Now the neglect has locked children out of learning.
Reading List


** Living the Harvard dream – from her childhood bedroom ([link removed])
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One student’s experience starting college online reveals the seesaw of a Covid semester.



** PROOF POINTS: When parents got involved in schools, kids did no better ([link removed])
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Study in Mexico also finds that giving parents more decision making power can sometimes backfire.



** Coronavirus means school food is free across the U.S. What if it stayed that way? ([link removed])
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Free school meals, the gold standard for child nutrition advocates, may be one good thing to come out of the coronavirus’s effect on the future of education.


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COLUMN: Dear Black students: Don’t let white efforts at miseducation deny your legacy ([link removed])
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The upholders of white supremacy have always tried to control us by obstructing our path to the schoolhouse through law, propaganda and duplicity. They are doing it again.


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Inspired by front-line health care workers, record numbers apply to medical schools ([link removed])
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The number of medical school applicants is up an ‘unprecedented’ 18 percent this year.


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OPINION: What math class and police brutality have in common ([link removed])
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An obsession with rule-following cuts short Black students’ opportunities.


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OPINION: Let’s welcome a ‘first professor’ to the White House ([link removed])
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Jill Biden’s commitment to teaching community college students is a big win for underserved institutions.
Solutions
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