Online Learning Opens Door For More Student Punishment If Students And Parents Are Not Careful

By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995As students have been pushed to online learning by Coronavirus, everything may outwardly seem very safe and innocent to parents, with kids attending distance classes quietly. ...

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Covid-19 provides an opportunity to re-imagine a New Normal

Pic courtesy: ICRISATThis was unexpected. The world’s leading global business publication, the Financial Times, wrote in an editorial: “Radical reforms – reversing the policy direction of the last four decades – will need to be put on the table.” After...

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Partisan media fuels divisive Covid-19 coverageBe honest: as you’ve been reading, viewing, and listening to Covid-19 coverage, have you thrown anything yet at the TV? Used language traditionally attributed to sailors?While my TV is still intact, I can’t...

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Lockdown: Agriculture serves as the lifeline

When people across the country are confined to their homes the only pressing requirement they have is for food – and that too three times a day. Whether you are rich, sitting comfortably in your homes and trying out new recipes to prepare a fresh dish...

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Covid-19 in the mediaOn Thursday, I'm making a presentation on Zoom for the International Relations Council titled, Covid-19 in the media. I'm taking a cue from an old Clint Eastwood western, and exploring the issue by looking at the good, the bad, and...

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Remembering Martin Khor -- a tribute

Pic courtesy: WikipediaThe stakes were very high. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) was deliberating, and if I am not mistaken this was sometimes in July 2008, on the extent to which agricultural products could be covered under Special Safeguard...

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How To Ensure Your Kids Get Educational Services And Don't Get Left Behind During Coronavirus

By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995Millions of students have been impacted by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in California and the US.  Being a student forced home with no or limited access to education has been detrimental...

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Should we call Covid-19 a 'crisis' and a "pandemic'?As I wrote in the new Peace Journalist magazine, reporting Covid-19 poses many challenges for peace journalists. One of those challenges involves the language we use.On Twitter, Peter Moor, an Ulster...

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When billionaires are willing to sacrifice human beings for the sake of economy ..

As coronavirus spreads, the rich are buying lavish bunkers to escape the virus. This one in Germany is spread over 76 acres. Pic reproduced from -- Los Angeles Times  Let’s be very clear. As Robert Reich, a professor of economics at the...

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