Will This Be a Lost Year for America’s Children?
As students across the country start school, education experts reckon with the long-term implications of remote learning, vanishing resources and heightened inequality.
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The 9.13.20 Issue
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Credit The Children in the Shadows: New York City’s Homeless Students
More than 100,000 city public school students lack permanent housing, caught in bureaucratic limbo that often seems like a trap. This is what their lives are like.
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CreditIllustration by Hokyoung Kim My Child Has a Disability. What Will Her Education Be Like This Year?
Public schools are obligated to teach millions of students with disabilities. But as learning moves online, many services that parents fought for are at risk.
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CreditIllustration by Tejumola (Butler) Adenuga Her School Offered a Path to the Middle Class. Will Covid-19 Block It?
Students at Richmond Hill High School in Queens don’t come from privileged backgrounds, but they go to college in impressive numbers. This year could look different.
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Montana’s Greatest Cultural Export: Inane Campaign Ads
The state perfected intensely folksy political advertising, a signifiers-over-substance approach that has pervaded the nation.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban. Source photographs (Reagan, fishing, sky): Getty Images; screen grabs from YouTube. ScreenlandA poem that widens to contain our curiosity, our fear, whatever we’re each keeping contained.
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Credit PoemGloria Steinem Is Nowhere Near Done With Being an Activist
“We are at a point of a backlash because we are winning.”
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CreditPhoto illustration by Bráulio Amado TalkAs a University Spokesman, Can I Promote a Reopening Plan I Question?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when you believe an employer is putting financial concerns ahead of health and safety — and more.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistJudge John Hodgman on Daily Breakfast Burritos
You’ve offered to make your boyfriend one every day, but won’t he get sick of them?
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CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy Judge John Hodgman
Why Would a Grown Man Play With Toy Soldiers?
Returning to a childhood pastime let me escape the horrors of real life. Even better, it took me back in time.
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CreditJoe Leavenworth for The New York Times Letter of Recommendation
CreditIllustration by Radio TipI Think of My Grandfather Every Time I Make Kofta
He wouldn’t have approved of this vegetarian version, but my meatless meatballs wouldn’t exist without his recipe.
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CreditPhotograph by Heami Lee Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Rebecca Bartoshesky. EatA look at education in America as many students go back to school amid the pandemic.
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