Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Opinion

America’s School Districts at the Decision-Making Crossroad

Following the first Coronavirus cases in the United States, most school districts across the United States paused in-person instruction in March 2020. Thereafter, these districts scrambled to provide quality virtual instruction that would continue the continuity of face-to-face instruction for the remaining two months of the 2019-2021 academic year. After students and teachers departed for their annual support vacation, most school administrators spent the summer planning for a virtual, hybrid, and face-to-face instruction for the 2020-2021 academic year.

October 1, 2020

COVID-19

Higher Ed Institutions Grapple With Public Health Implications of In-Person Instruction

At the end of June, 97% of college presidents reported that their universities planned to offer a mix of online and in-person learning in response to the coronavirus this fall, according to a survey by the American Council on Education.  But now, schools are increasingly reversing course, returning to online classes in response to the […]

September 22, 2020

COVID-19

Survey: More Than Half of Universities Plan to Reopen in the Fall

More than half of university presidents are “very likely” to allow in-person classes for at least some period of time this fall, says a recently released American Council on Education (ACE) survey.

May 31, 2020

COVID-19

Some Colleges Are Already Planning for the Next Wave of COVID-19

Even as many colleges are still struggling to figure out what the beginning of the new academic year will look like, a few have made public schedules for the next semester which already account for another wave of COVID-19 infections in the fall, which epidemiologists have said is more or less inevitable.

May 21, 2020

News Roundup

Overdose Death Trend Shifts from Rural Back to Urban

U.S. drug overdose deaths, most common in Appalachia and other rural areas in recent years, are back to being more concentrated in big cities, according to an Associated Press story. According to a report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both urban and rural overdose death rates have been rising, but […]

August 5, 2019

Opinion

Increase in American Suicides Has Historical Roots

Recent research indicates that the recent rise in suicides across the nation can be attributed partly to historical social and psychological issues, including rural isolation and high veteran populations, pressure to live up to stereotypes, disillusion with the American dream and racism.

June 15, 2018

Opinion

The Fragile State of Student Mental Health

I’m still processing the coincidence of the noteworthy suicides of two rich and famous people and the release of new statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that say suicides grew at a 25-percent rate nationally from 1999 to 2016. And then I thought about my students.

June 11, 2018