Noticias América

Lar de idosos cria ‘armaduras’ de plástico e promove ‘semana do abraço’ em SP

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

Brasil/ 30 de agosto 2020/ Por: G1 santos/ Fonte: https://g1.globo.com/ Funcionários produziram estrutura onde as pessoas encaixam os braços para abraçar os idosos sem contato físico, em Cubatão. Ação repercutiu na web. Lar promoveu ‘semana do abraço’ adaptada à pandemia, para que idosos pudessem rever familiares e amigos — Foto: Reprodução/Facebook O Lar Fraterno de […]

Canadá:Plan to let Vancouver students learn from home a good start, but not enough: parents

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

Canadá/August 30, 2020/By Simon Little/ source: https://globalnews.ca A Vancouver parent who’s suing the province over its COVID-19 back-to-school plan says a new learn-from-home option in the city is a good start, but that the province needs to do more. The Vancouver School Board announced plans Friday for a new “transitional” option that would allow students to […]

COVID-19: UNESCO and partners in education launch global campaign to keep girls in the picture

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

UNESCO/August 30, 2020/Source: https://en.unesco.org The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest school closures and education disruption in history, with more than 1.5 billion students affected at the height of the crisis. Over 767 million of these students were girls. Now, another major challenge is looming. Over 11 million girls — from pre-primary to tertiary education […]

Cuba: Ministra de Educación ofrece nuevas precisiones sobre el reinicio del curso escolar

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

Cuba/30 de agosto 2020/Por: Randy Alonso Falcón, Oscar Figueredo Reinaldo, Lissett Izquierdo Ferrer/Fuente: http://www.cubadebate.cu/ Tras haber realizado un recorrido por todas las provincias del país en el que participaron viceministros, directores generales y directores de los niveles educativos del Ministerio de Educación (Mined), entre los días 15 al 22 del presente mes, la ministra de ese organismo, Ena […]

USA: Letters to the Editor: Betsy DeVos is a product of Trump’s indifference to public education

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

USA/August 30, 2020/Source: https://www.latimes.com/ To the editor: While your editorial delineates Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ callousness and indifference to the pandemic, it is your observation that President Trump is “not all that interested in education” that resonates most. As reprehensible as DeVos is, she is only doing the bidding of a man who doesn’t care about education and […]

Canadá: Glitches a virtual certainty as Ontario classes resume, but lessons to be learned

Publicado: 30 agosto 2020

Canadá/ August 29, 2020 /By Michelle McQuigge/source: https://globalnews.ca The technical glitches and occasional outages that will almost certainly be part of this year’s virtual school experience in Ontario may also prove to be teachable moments for educators and students alike, according to various experts in the field. School boards, teachers and researchers say recent failures of key online […]