by Alia Wong | Aug 10, 2020 | education, government, k-12 education, money matters
Zachary Carr hadn’t known Victor for long. Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. But Carr had spent enough one-on-one time with Victor to discern that the boy was...
by Alia Wong | Jul 17, 2020 | education, health care, higher education, lifestyle, parenting
As the number of coronavirus cases surges across the U.S., skepticism is mounting over colleges’ ability to resume campus activity in the fall. Still, as of mid-July, around 55% of colleges were aiming for an in-person fall semester while another 30% were...
by Alia Wong | Jul 7, 2020 | education, higher education, language & culture, politics, race
Rohini Mettu got a perfect score on the ACT standardized test. The 20-year-old University of Washington student worked hard for that outcome, spending countless hours in expensive test-prep classes and countless more studying on her own. But Mettu, a rising junior,...
by Alia Wong | Jun 16, 2020 | education, health care, higher education, money matters
Back in March, people began trickling into Calvin University’s health center complaining of symptoms such as body aches and sore throats. The students and employees tested negative for the flu, leading campus officials to suspect they’d come down...
by Alia Wong | May 18, 2020 | education, health care, higher education
Residential colleges are scrambling to get and provide clarity as to how the COVID-19 pandemic might alter their educational offerings. This guesswork involves questions such as whether campuses will even be allowed to reopen in the fall — and if so, what sorts of...
by Alia Wong | Dec 9, 2019 | education, hawaii, k-12 education, language & culture, politics, public schools, race
Solomon Enos The orphan was surveying the sea from atop a lava-rock shrine when he saw them—omens that looked just as his uncle, a kahuna, had foretold. There was a flock of airborne stingrays amid a series of towers, all hovering over a forest floating...
