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    What students need when schools reopen

    Rather than assuming all students are behind when schools reopen, we should begin the school year providing grade-level content and addressing lost-learning challenges as they are identified.

    By Kristy Sullivan May 13, 2020
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    The world will need 9 million more nurses and midwives this decade

    Around the world, nurses are demonstrating their compassion, bravery and courage as they respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Never before has their value been more clearly demonstrated.

    By Robin Mutz May 12, 2020
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    Mom taught me to hope, and to ask ‘why not us?’

    The Stockwell and Abbott families started a Downtown lunch spot 40 years ago that inspired a son’s lifelong belief in city-building: ‘Nine-year-old me didn’t doubt Downtown could rally, because I had seen my own family do it.’

    By Marvin Stockwell May 10, 2020
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    A German student didn’t find romance in Memphis; she found reality

    A German student learns to love America. She also learns that American students are baffled by Trump's election, and that some want to carry guns on campus.

    By Katharina Kleine Wachter May 09, 2020
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    COVID-19’s profound effects on children are on the horizon

    Children may face immediate and long-term consequences of COVID-19 – from delays in seeking medical attention for current illnesses, to chronic toxic stress, to the threat of communicable diseases due to delayed vaccinations.

    By Bindiya Bagga, Jason Yaun May 08, 2020
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    Quarantine Diary: School on Zoom’s out for summer, maybe forever

    My family of five popped into our hairdresser’s backyard for a quarantine cut. We got good cuts over good conversation, muffled slightly by our masks.

    By A J Quinlen May 06, 2020
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    Shelby Farms and the quarantine work week

    I planned five hours of my work week at Shelby Farms, waking up bright and early, packing up lunch, protective gear, my 7-year-old and heading from my Downtown home to the park. Before long I ordered a hammock from Amazon and found us a spot near Beaver Lake. 

    By Roquita Coleman-Williams May 06, 2020
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    What we’ve learned from COVID-19

    While children are not now in traditional classrooms, they are learning lessons. Don’t be surprised if the next generation floods the health care industry with new workers whose knowledge and ideas will be married to selfless compassion.

    By Mark White May 05, 2020
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    Education stimulus funds should restore what children lost

    The Tennessee Department of Education and Gov. Bill Lee should use federal stimulus money to restore our children and their schools back to the position they were in prior to March 20, 2020.

    By Terri C. Harris May 05, 2020
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    Morris: A healing dose of Brooks Ramsey’s wisdom

    Hundreds of people in Memphis will tell you that Brooks made life worth living again or saved their marriages. If ever I was in the dark pit, I called Brooks, and he talked me out.

    By G. Scott Morris May 03, 2020
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    Musicians are emergency responders

    Studies show that anxiety, heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate can be reduced by listening to music, and that music has been linked to better sleep while on a ventilator in the ICU. Health care professionals have described a reduction in stress and empathy fatigue from listening to music.

    By Žak Ozmo August 26, 2020
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    A Memphis music playlist for April/May

    This month's playlist is accompanied by news about the Music Export Memphis COVID-19 Relief Fund, which to date has awarded more than $100,000 in grants to individual Memphis musicians.

    By Elizabeth Cawein May 02, 2020
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    Coronavirus changed the world – and Ramadan

    For as long as we can remember, Ramadan has been a communal activity. Perhaps coronavirus is a sign that we need to slow down and remember what’s important in life. 

    By Danish Siddiqui May 01, 2020
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    Parenting in a pandemic

    The boundaries between work and home have completely broken down, and life will not really return to normal as long as parents don’t have any place to send children during the day.

    By Jerri Green May 01, 2020
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    UTHSC dean: Current COVID antibody tests aren’t always correct

    Ask your doctor if the test you’re taking is specific to COVID-19 and have him or her review with you its limitations, particularly if the test is not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

    By Scott Strome April 29, 2020
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    Pedestrians may be missing, but cranes are still moving Downtown

    Downtown projects at One Beale, FedEx Logistics' headquarters and Union Row are working toward completion. What's missing in the pandemic is pedestrian vibrancy.

    By Jennifer Oswalt April 27, 2020
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    Our pandemic workforce relies on immigrants

    Many of the heroes who are attending to the sick and dying in our hospitals are immigrants: 25% of physicians in the United States are foreign-born, and 1.5 million immigrants are employed as doctors, nurses and pharmacists. 

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa April 26, 2020
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    Stay-at-home orders may lift, but the threat persists

    A true return to pre-COVID-19 life in Memphis will require either a vaccine or the development of herd immunity.

    By Scott Strome, Jon McCullers April 23, 2020
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    As need for legal aid grows, vulnerable are least able to afford it

    Community Legal Center and Memphis Area Legal Services are receiving "panicked calls from people who have been furloughed or fired and who lack money to feed their children and keep a roof over their heads."

    By Anne Mathes, Cindy Cole Ettingoff April 23, 2020
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    Schools can use COVID shutdown to plan for 21st-century education

    Even as we re-imagine and advocate for 21st-century facilities, we must do so knowing that learning can no longer be contained in the four walls of a classroom, nor should it.

    By Kevin Woods April 22, 2020
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    Quarantine Diary: Pack animals

    We’ve watched Memphis’ social distancing “grade” drop down to a D. I think it shows how bad we all are at staying away from each other. On a smaller scale – the me scale – I’ve been finding more and more ways to socially distance … with people.

    By A J Quinlen April 22, 2020
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    From hospital to home: Appreciating the socially distant life

    At the same time I was lamenting our Easter plans, I forced myself to pause and look around. I was spending a Saturday morning playing with my children in the yard and smoking a pork shoulder on the grill. Our current condition had “forced” us to find a way to spend the entire day as a family.

    By Rusty Shappley April 21, 2020
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    A simple way to improve Tom Lee Park: Close Riverside Drive

    The city’s decision to temporarily close Riverside Drive converted the noisy and congested road that divides the Riverwalk from Tom Lee Park into a centerpiece of bustling pedestrian activities. 

    By William Evans, Mary V. Relling April 19, 2020
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    COVID-19 patients face a long journey to recovery

    Those who survive moderately severe and severe cases of the virus may face aftereffects such as reduced vitality, shortness of breath, lung infections and decreased mental capacity, among other problems. 

    By Moacir Schnapp April 18, 2020
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    At MIFA, ‘We had to get the meals out’

    How could we continue to deliver MIFA Meals on Wheels, a service that, by design, is face-to-face, during social isolation? Our answer stretched our imaginations and our capacity.

    By Sally Jones Heinz April 17, 2020

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