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COVID-19 and the Underlying Political Impact on the Public Education System

The Lowe Down

COVID-19 and the Underlying Political Impact on the Public Education System. When COVID-19 hit the United States in the spring of 2020, many schools switched to remote learning for the remainder of that school year. The 2020-2021 academic year has seen a dramatic decline in public school enrollments. Article by Kara Hagler.

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Nurturing the Delaware Innovation Space

First State Insights

Topics covered include the 2017 creation of the Innovation Space at the DuPont Experimental Station; aspirations for and early successes resulting from the Delaware Innovation Space; and how the ongoing dynamics of government, industry, and higher education collaborations set the tone for innovation ecosystems in Delaware and elsewhere.

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More systematic equity and revitalization planning as an imperative and opportunity in the suburbs: Northern Virginia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to a new report by the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, poverty, rates of people without health insurance, educational attainment, job opportunities and overcrowding all worsened in those neighborhoods between 2013 and 2021.

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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I have discussed undergrounding/decking for North Capitol Street, the Southeast-Southwest Freeway, and parts of Connecticut Avenue in the core. -- " DC and "city repair" of the urban grid ," 2020 Freeway undergrounding and removal is a trendy move in urban planning these days (" Can Removing Highways Fix America's Cities? ," New York Times ).

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. A good example is Bilbao. -- " Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced?

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). He went on to promulgate a law, the Coronavirus Act of March 2020, that is perhaps even more 'extreme', although mitigated by its incomprehensibility.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. It also requires participation across the spectrum of agegroups, ethnicities, genders, educational levels, orientations, and so on. The Guardian , 5 May 2020. Murray 2020. Murphy, S.,

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