August 2020

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This Month’s Q&A: August 2020

Albert Baker, Ph.D. Interim Chair, Department of Computer Science U.A. Little Rock THESE ARE FRAUGHT times for school communities, communities being the operative word. The immediate question is how to keep everyone safe when classes start again, but there are also long-range questions in the air. We sat down with Dr. Al Baker, interim chair […]

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Director’s Chair: August 2020

A NUMBER OF you might not remember September 11, 2001. Tragically, a large number of people lost their lives that day, and the resulting security measures required to mitigate the risk of another such incident impacted parts of all our lives permanently. But as hard as 9/11 was to accept, it brought some positive changes

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Guest Column: August 2020

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A HOMESCHOOLED KID?It was great then, and it’s even better now Damon Neiser,Regional Vice President of Partnerships,MIND Research Institute THANKS TO THE pandemic, the fastest growing trends in education are homeschooling, virtual schooling, and micro-schooling, the term for small neighborhood schools that typically enroll fewer than 10 children. And yet,

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