Depending on who you ask, standardized tests are either more important than ever as students return to school after almost six months at home, or are the last thing students and teachers need during a pandemic.
Sophia Yoon
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
Sophia Yoon is a student at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and a summer 2020 intern at Bridge. As a public policy major, she covers general news and policy affairs. She is the Daily TV Editor on the Michigan Daily, the campus newspaper of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the only printed daily newspaper published in Washtenaw County. She can be reached at skyoon10@gmail.com or on Twitter @sophiayoon0.
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Deadline for Michigan low-income college aid extended due to coronavirus
Michigan’s low-income high school grads will have an extra year to sign up for financial aid that provides free tuition to the state’s community colleges.
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Will coronavirus curb ACT and SAT admissions tests at Michigan colleges?
High school students can’t find sites to take high-stakes tests, or are seeing sites cancelling exams due to COVID-19. With more colleges already going test-optional, could these entrance exams be on the wane?
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Whitmer strips name of slavery advocate Cass from Michigan office building
The Lewis Cass Building in Lansing will now bear the name Elliott-Larsen, in honor of the authors of Michigan’s landmark civil rights act.
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For some Michigan college students, coronavirus is a risk worth taking
Whether it’s fatalism, naiveté or both, college students appear to be less concerned about catching the potentially deadly virus than school officials, even after more than 100 people were infected at one East Lansing college bar.
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COVID fallout: Fewer Michigan low-income students may be going to college
A Michigan private college leader sends up a warning flare, saying that low-income high school grads aren’t enrolling or making deposits to save spots in upcoming college classes at the same rate as last year, a casualty of the economic upheaval caused by the pandemic.
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Michigan colleges aren’t seeing coronavirus enrollment drops they feared
Preliminary indicators for first-year enrollment are steady or higher at Michigan’s largest universities. That’s a huge relief for college officials, who worried many would avoid campus until a COVID-19 vaccine is developed.
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Pomp and scary circumstance: images of Michigan grads amid coronavirus
High school graduation season in Michigan is always a special time. This year was like no other.
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Whitmer lifts ban on summer camps, some school sports workouts
As coronavirus infections and deaths recede in Michigan, the governor on Friday lifted a ban on children summer camps. That’s a huge relief to some families.
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Michigan launches a WiFi hotspot map to aid those lacking Internet access
It’s just a map, and there are only 300 hotspots marked so far, but a new interactive hotspot locator is a step in the right direction toward increasing broadband access.