Noticias América

USA: Letters to the Editor: Betsy DeVos is a product of Trump’s indifference to public education

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

USA/August 30, 2020/Source: https://www.latimes.com/ To the editor: While your editorial delineates Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ callousness and indifference to the pandemic, it is your observation that President Trump is “not all that interested in education” that resonates most. As reprehensible as DeVos is, she is only doing the bidding of a man who doesn’t care about education and […]

Canadá: Glitches a virtual certainty as Ontario classes resume, but lessons to be learned

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

Canadá/ August 29, 2020 /By Michelle McQuigge/source: https://globalnews.ca The technical glitches and occasional outages that will almost certainly be part of this year’s virtual school experience in Ontario may also prove to be teachable moments for educators and students alike, according to various experts in the field. School boards, teachers and researchers say recent failures of key online […]

USA: Lack of COVID-19 testing at Colorado’s rural universities epitomizes higher education inequities

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

USA/August 30, 2020/By ELIZABETH HERNANDEZ/Source: https://www.denverpost.com/ State higher ed officials working to bring testing to Adams State University in Alamosa Adams State University President Cheryl Lovell is imploring the state — or anyone who will listen — to help connect the rural school with the COVID-19 testing it’s currently unable to afford or access, even as […]

Aldeia do Alto Xingu improvisa hospital, contrata médica e tem mortalidade zero por Covid-19

Publicado: 29 agosto 2020

Brasil/ 29 de agosto 2020/ Por: Carolina Dantas, G1/Fonte: https://g1.globo.com/ Médica de saúde da família pediu demissão de hospital em São Paulo para ser contratada pela Associação Índigena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu. Covid atingiu dezenas de índios da comunidade, cacique e até anciã de 90 anos. Todos sobreviveram. Imagem interna de leitos improvisados por povo […]

USA: ‘Please don’t kill him’: Fall college classes kick off with COVID-19 warnings, miles of Plexiglas

Publicado: 29 agosto 2020

USA/ 29 August 2020/ Source/ https://www.usatoday.com/ By Dave Bangert, and Nikos Frazier, Lafayette Journal & Courier WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – After months of planning and preparation for a new semester under the coronavirus pandemic, Molly Coomes was nearly as eager as Purdue University officials to resume in-person classes this week. Some of the details, though, would […]

Chile: Según estudio del Mineduc, alumnos podrían perder hasta el 88% de los aprendizajes de un año por la pandemia

Publicado: 29 agosto 2020

Chile/29 de agosto de 2020/fuente: https://www.cnnchile.com El Ministerio de Educación en conjunto con el Banco Mundial dieron a conocer este jueves los resultados del estudio realizado en conjunto “Impacto del Covid-19 en los resultados de aprendizaje y escolaridad en Chile”. La investigación muestra la medición de una serie de indicadores del sistema educativo, tales como el impacto en los resultados […]