The Pandemic’s Powerful Impact On Students
by Jayne O’Donnell and Richard Willing Children and teens visited emergency rooms at rates 25 to 31% higher due to serious mental health disorders in the first two years of the pandemic. Graduation rates, which hit an all-time high in 2019, were back trending downward during the pandemic. And academic achievement saw such big drops […]
The Disease Took A Lot Out of Teachers Too
by Jayne O’Donnell Zena Whitworth has taught school in Prince George’s County, Maryland and Washington, D.C. for nearly 30 years. She rolled with increasingly large classrooms, low pay and a lack of resources that forced her to pay out of pocket or have students do without. But after the impact two years of Covid-19 restrictions […]
How Covid-19 Infected K-12 Education and How It May Help
by Jayne O’Donnell and Richard Willing For all the despair and death it wrought, Covid-19 may yet prove to have a positive impact on the U.S. education system. Experts say – and educators hope – that record levels of federal money designated to address lost learning and bolster student mental health may also be directed […]
Protection of Employees returning to the office
by Jayne O’Donnell Zena Whitworth has taught school in Prince George’s County, Maryland and Washington, D.C. for nearly 30 years. She rolled with increasingly large classrooms, low pay and a lack of resources that forced her to pay out of pocket or have students do without. But after the impact two years of Covid-19 restrictions […]
Obesity and COVID
by Carol Bazis, LCSW-C People who struggle with obesity – having a body mass index of 30 or higher – are at greater risk for a range of diseases including heart disease and stroke which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2022) are two of the leading causes of death in […]
