Resources
- Boston Globe: Nearly a dozen Massachusetts districts faulted for asking parents to sign away special education rights (July 22, 2020)
- Axios: Coronavirus is being used to suppress press freedoms globally (March 31, 2020)
- U.N. Human Rights Council: Report of the Special Rapporteur on disease pandemics and the freedom of opinion and expression (April 23, 2020)
- Brookings: How to Cope with an Infodemic (April 27, 2020)
- The Verge: Google, Facebook, and Twitter to produce regular reports on coronavirus disinformation for the EU (June 11, 2020)
- Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center: Canaries in the Coal Mine: COVID-19 Misinformation and Black Communities (June 24, 2020)
- Lawfare Podcast with author Brandi Collins-Dexter of the report “Canaries in the Coal Mine: COVID-19 Misinformation and Black Communities” (July 9, 2020)
- Lawfare: COVID-19 and Social Media Content Moderation (March 25, 2020)
- Washington Post: Being safe and feeling safe aren’t the same thing — and the difference will matter to kids when schools open (July 8, 2020)
- Center for Civil Rights Remedies (CCRR) at the UCLA Civil Rights Project: Lost Opportunities: How Disparate School Discipline Continues to Drive Differences in the Opportunity to Learn (Oct. 11, 2020)
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Blog Posts
The Rights of Public School Teachers in a Pandemic
With the Biden administration pushing schools to reopen in-person, it is necessary to reflect on the hardships our educators have ...
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Getting our Child Co-Workers Back to School Safely—and Avoiding the “Education Contracts of Adhesion” Trap
As more private and public primary and secondary (K-12) schools move to reopen in-person, we need to ensure reopening plans ...
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Journalism During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
“When I announced it, you all said, ‘It’s not possible.’ Come on, give me a break, man. It’s a good ...
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Government Information Dissemination in the Post-Trump Era
On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki led the Biden administration’s first press briefing. Though no ...
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Federal, State, and Local Responses to Student Absenteeism during COVID-19
In the past several years, school attendance and absenteeism have been key focus areas of education policy. Consistent school attendance ...
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The Education Divide Caused by COVID-19
The United States has entered a ‘third’ wave of Covid-19 , and many students are entering yet another month of online ...
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Emergency Measures: Free Speech and Online Content Moderation During Coronavirus
A Conversation with HLS Lecturer evelyn douek In the chaos and confusion of the Coronavirus pandemic, few have stopped to ...
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