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Greg Toppo
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Senior Writer, The 74
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By Greg Toppo Verified| The 74 Verified Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Just a few weeks into the COVID pandemic, veteran New York journalist David Zweig began looking into the evidence behind universal school closures. In early 2020, the findings suggested that children were essentially unaffected by the virus and minimally contagious when they caught it. He envisioned a magazine piece arguing for reopening schools, and began pitching it to major outlets. No one was interested.
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By Greg Toppo Verified| Yahoo Verified San DiegoU.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Tuesday told a crowd of educators, tech executives and investors that public education in America is unsustainable, suggesting that the nation’s low literacy and math scores show it has “gotten to a point that we just can’t keep going along doing what we’re doing.”Speaking at the annual ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, said, “Let’s shake it up. Let’s do something different.
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The 74
The 74 Media is a nonprofit news organization focused on covering the U.S. education system from early childhood through college and career. Founded in July 2015 by Campbell Brown and Romy Drucker, it aims to address key issues in education, including teacher quality and educational options for families. The organization is named after the estimated 74 million American schoolchildren enrolled in K-12 education at its inception. The 74 Media provides comprehensive news and investigative reporting, expert opinion and commentary, and video and multimedia journalism. Its reporting highlights the voices of teachers, innovators, researchers, school leaders, and policymakers. The organization also operates LA School Report and LA School Report en Español, which focus on local education issues in Los Angeles. Through its work, The 74 Media seeks to foster an informed dialogue about improving education and addressing systemic challenges within the system.
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