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Ban Lifts Holocaust Book
Onto List of Bestsellers
How rich is the irony-on so many levels?
A Tennessee school board bans a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
about the Holocaust, and now that book has hit the bestseller list
on Amazon.
The Complete Maus, about the experiences of the author's parents,
broke onto Amazon's top 20 list and, as of early last week, had held
the No. 2 spot. The graphic novel wasn't in the top 1,000 before the
ban.
Written by Art Spiegelman, Maus is set in 1940s Poland during
the Holocaust and chronicles his parents' internment in Auschwitz,
depicting Nazis as cats and Jewish people as mice.
The novel was part of the 8th grade English/language arts curriculum
in the McMinn County school system, and its removal-
sparked by a discussion about how to best teach students about the
Holocaust-has drawn international attention.
Minutes from the district's school board meeting indicate objections
over some of the language used, and, at first, schools director
Lee Parkison suggested redacting it " to get rid of the eight curse
words and the picture of the woman that was objected to. " The nude
woman is drawn as a mouse.
" It shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids, why does
the educational system promote this kind of stuff? It is not wise or
healthy, " board member Tony Allman said about the book.
Instructional supervisor Julie Goodin, a former history teacher,
said she thought the graphic novel was a good way to depict a horrific
event.
Spiegelman, 73, called the recent removal " absurd " and " myopic. "
" I think they're so myopic in their focus and they're so afraid of
what's implied and having to defend the decision to teach Maus as
part of the curriculum that it led to this kind of daffily myopic response, "
he added.
Vol. 41 * Issue 21 * February 9, 2022
4 New Survey: How the Pandemic Has Made
School Leadership More Stressful
6 Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Who Sympathized
With School Administrators, Set to Retire
8 Efforts to Ban Critical Race Theory
Now Restrict Teaching for a Third
Of America's Kids
9 How the Evolving Science on COVID
Precautions Puts District Leader in a Bind
10 Conversation with Quinta Brunson,
Creator of ABC's 'Abbot Elementary:
'Who Are We Without Teachers?'
12 Want to Tackle Chronic Absenteeism?
Try Texting Parents
14 Can Online Tutoring Help Schools Dig Out
Of a Pandemic Learning Hole?
OPINION
16 How to Promote Diversity and Inclusion
At Your School
17 Stress, Hypervigilance, and Decision Fatigue:
Teaching During Omicron
20 How We Get Holocaust Education Wrong
DEPARTMENTS
2 Briefly Stated
5 What the Research Says
18 Letters to the Editor
19 EdWeek Top School Jobs
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Early Masking Prevented
Child-Care-Venue Closures
Put on a mask. After all, if youngsters can do it ...
Child-care programs in the United States that instituted child-masking
policies in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic were less
likely to close in the following year, according to a new Yale study.
The study, published Jan. 27 in JAMA Network Open, tracked 6,654
center-based and home-based child-care professionals from all 50
states during a one-year period starting in late spring of 2020.
Child-care programs that required masking children 2 years and
older early on in the pandemic (from May through June of 2020) saw a
13 percent reduction in program closure over the following year, says
the study. Researchers found that continued masking throughout the
year was associated with a 14 percent reduction in program closure,
while controlling for other mitigation measures such as social distancing
and symptom screening.
" It's the disruptions in learning opportunities and care routines
that harm children, not the masks, " said Walter Gilliam, a professor
of child psychiatry and psychology at the Yale Child Study Center and
the study's senior author.
The study, which also controlled for the extent of COVID transmission
in the surrounding community, is among the first large-scale longitudinal
studies of the impacts of COVID safety measures in childcare
programs.
Over the course of the one-year period, 43 percent of child-care programs
in the study closed at least temporarily because of a suspected
or confirmed case of the disease among employees or children.
Researchers found that among a number of safety measures, from
social distancing and staggered arrivals and departures to outdoor
drop-off and pickup, child masking was the most associated with
reduced rates or program closure. For instance, six-foot distancing
policies were associated with a 7 percent reduction in child-care closure-roughly
half the rate of reduction associated with child masking.
Masking rates were higher among employees, however.
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