By: Yewon Lee
The question becomes: how do we reverse or mitigate declining enrollment in rural schools?
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By: Yewon Lee
Rural students make up approximately 15% of all American students, but are often left out of the national conversation in addressing roadblocks to their educational success.
By: Sarah Son
On May 13th, the C.D.C. announced that it is safe for fully vaccinated people to take their masks off in most indoor settings. Despite this seemingly positive shift of mask policies, it has brought much confusion as well.
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By: Nicole Lavelle
2021 has already been a groundbreaking year in terms of vaccinations. Currently, there are two available and recommended by the CDC in the United States. These are the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. However, there are an additional three, AstraZeneca, Janssen, and Novavax, in phase three trials which means that more people may be vaccinated soon.
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By: Bobin Park
After suffering devastating losses over the virus, more than 400 thousand cases in the U.S. alone, lawmakers in Congress have finally approved the $900 billion Covid relief package. However, this Tuesday, Trump refused to sign the new relief package.
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By: Nicole Lavelle
As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in the United States entering the winter season, lockdowns, closings, and shutdowns are inevitable. A second wave means different things for Americans. Businesses are shutting down, unemployment is up, and millions of Americans are facing food insecurity. Food insecurity is currently at extremely high levels, which can have disastrous effects on people’s health in the future.
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By: Kaila Morris
With only 5,491 coronavirus cases compared to the 327,000 in Ohio, Rwanda has handled the pandemic remarkably well. Often overlooked in global politics, the 12-million person country has long been poor and overpopulated, in part because of its limited natural resources and the brutal aftermath of the 1995 genocide––but their largely successful approach to the pandemic has proved that fighting the coronavirus doesn’t have to be a losing battle, even with limited supplies.
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By: Aambar Agarwal
November 25, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Christian and Jewish religious groups contested COVID-19 restrictions in New York. Despite rising cases and continued deaths in New York and the rest of the US, the conservative majority argued that Governor Cuomo’s restrictions attacked the religious freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment. They argued that communal worship is more important than countless American lives.
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There have been many changes since the start of the worldwide pandemic, COVID-19, from travel bans to school closings as social distancing measures became enforced, and people had to stay home all day. As social interactions became harder to have, many people increased their reliance on one method for contact: technology.
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As many facilities are going online due to global pandemic. Volunteering is no exception, This is why I have decided to make a guide to online volunteering, so many of the people in need will get the help even during this situation.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly shifted the lives of everyone. However, there is another large group of Americans who have yet to receive sufficient aid during these times: the students.
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As the school year began, many districts have decided to pursue online learning, at least temporarily until it would be safe for students to physically attend school. However this new method of teaching and learning had sparked many disagreements in our community.
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Work vs. Fun. This is a dilemma that floats around in the minds of current students as school has become online.
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Currently, over 40% of Americans are obese. If nothing changes, by 2030, one in four Americans will be severely obese (i.e. more than 100 pounds overweight. The obesity epidemic has long plagued the US; COVID-19 is just a newcomer. Unfortunately for us, there’s a deadly correlation between the two.
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Word Cloud by Emily Qian
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In class learning and student activities were forcefully shifted into lagging Zoom meetings and awkward emails. Despite the drawbacks of virtual learning however, I strongly attest that the closing of educational facilities has and will continue to benefit our country throughout this infectious crisis.
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Now that it gets closer and closer to the start of the next school year, the debates for how the next school year will look grow louder and school districts have to decide how learning will continue.
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The Trump administration has handled the Coronavirus Pandemic the worst out of any other country, and refuses to take accountability for it.
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By definition, civic virtue should be practiced despite government urging or rules put in place. But is civic virtue supposed to be practiced in America?
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Dear Senator Sherrod Brown, Personally, the three of us are very anxious of what the future holds since global warming is going to threaten our generation and future generations the most. We’re writing in hopes that you would be able to make a change on our behalf.
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