CNBC’s “College Voices 2020” is a series written by CNBC interns from universities across the country about coming of age, getting their college education and launching their careers during these extraordinary times. Michelle Gao is a senior at Harvard University, studying government and statistics. The series is edited by Cindy Perman. […]
COVID
College football’s COVID struggles may be getting worse
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (“How To Be A Social Media Savage” handbooks sold separately by whoever runs the Maryland football Twitter account: MORE DASH: Big Brand Struggles | Heisman Race THIRD QUARTER: COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND COVID, THE ONGOING STRUGGLE From the beginning of this […]
Readers Write: COVID and education, Fifth District race, mental health, the bail system, voting
Our instruction manual for combating COVID-19 started with blank pages. We’ve slowly filled them with notes and studies and gradually applied them to rules of practical living, along with government recommended standard practices. But those “notes” are in pencil, with many erasures and cross-outs. We’ve learned conclusively that this virus […]
Portland Public Schools socks away $20 million in reserves, rural teachers call in sick after student tests positive for COVID: The week in education
Portland Public Schools spent some $8 million to provide Chromebooks for all of its students in the spring and another $10 million on coronavirus-related expenses so far this school year. Still, the state’s largest district began this school year with more money than it anticipated through a mix of austerity […]