Professors Say Students aren’t Ready for College After Pandemic Learning: ‘Far from normal’; COVID-19 Stimulus Checks are Triggering Social Security Overpayments Across the Country, and other C-Virus related stories
Professors say students aren’t ready for college after pandemic learning: ‘Far from normal’:
When Jonathan Malesic, a writing professor with two decades of teaching experience, returned to campus at Southern Methodist University after a year of teaching remotely during the pandemic, he was shocked to find a new class of students who were less enthusiastic and less engaged than ever before.
“Students weren’t turning in homework, and when they were, they were turning in assignments really late,” he told The Post. “The quality of the work really had simmered.”
Attendance quickly fell off, and those who did show up were falling asleep in classes. One student, Malesic recalled, made a habit of watching European soccer matches on his laptop every class.
“I worried it was only me, but it turns out it was part of a bigger trend,” said Malesic, author of The End of Burnout.
A bombshell report from the Center for Reinventing Public Education, a non-partisan research organization at Arizona State University, has uncovered vast learning lapses and unprecedented educational setbacks due to school closures.
“Three years after the start of the pandemic, Covid-19 is continuing to derail learning, but in more insidious and hidden ways,” the researchers concluded. “Things are far from normal, even though students are back in school.”
According to the report, fewer students arriving at college today are prepared for the level of work that’s expected of them. —>READ MORE HERE
COVID-19 stimulus checks are triggering social security overpayments across the country:
Channel 11 has new developments in our investigation into Social Security overpayments. We’ve been telling you for more than a month how Social Security has been demanding people pay back billions of dollars the agency says it shouldn’t have given them. Now, we’ve learned some families say they’ve lost their Social Security because of money they got as extra help during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social Security’s own rules say those COVID-19 stimulus checks should not count against your benefits eligibility as assets or income, but since our initial report last month, we’ve heard from people across the country saying that’s exactly what happened.
“I just assumed since the government put the money in, they would understand that she’s going to have extra money,” Dave Greune tells 11 Investigates.
Dave Greune says his adult daughter Julia’s only income is her monthly social security check. Julia is blind and has cerebral palsy. During the pandemic, $3,200 in stimulus checks, or economic impact payments, were deposited into her bank account. Now, the Social Security Administration has frozen her monthly payments and is demanding thousands of dollars be returned.
“The only reason that her assets were too much was because of the stimulus payments she got during COVID,” Greune said.
In our report last month. 11 Investigates first revealed how hundreds of thousands – maybe millions – of families have been hit with overpayment demands from Social Security, even when it was the government who made the mistake. —>READ MORE HERE
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