Blog Post #3
Prompt: Research a contemporary news story related to education justice. (You might check out NPR’s or NYT’s education pages for ideas.) Briefly introduce the issue (linking to relevant articles for classmates who’d like to read more and appropriately citing information taken from outside sources), and then share your thoughts on the issue. Why is the issue important? How should we respond to it? What are the event’s broader implications? (Make sure you’re not just reporting on the event, but sharing your own reflections and responses.) The end of the universal free lunch program in the United States has led to students to accumulate large amounts of meal debt that they have no real way of paying off. A school in Oakland, Missouri noticed that around 80-million more meals were provided when they were offered to students for free during the pandemic. While this story focuses on one school district, similar narratives are appearing all over the country as the federal program ended...