Making up for Lost School Time, India-China Relations Amid COVID-19, and More

May 1, 2020

If the “summer slump” can affect student learning in just two months, what impact might the COVID-19 slump have on children who are missing as much as six or more months of schooling? Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Helen Shwe Hadani, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek highlight the difficult challenges presented by lost school time and discuss how educators can adjust.

China’s handling of the coronavirus crisis has only increased Indians’ skepticism toward its neighboring country. Tanvi Madan writes that Indians largely blame China for the origins of the virus and criticize China for its lack of transparency about the outbreak, influence on the World Health Organization, and efforts to take diplomatic and commercial advantage of the crisis.

Building on his recent work, a new analysis from William Frey examines the demographic and political attributes of areas in the United States that have reached high COVID-19 prevalence status since the end of March. As the virus spreads into new areas with a broader range of population groups, public attitudes on preventive measures and the reopening of the economy may shift, Frey argues.

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