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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – The effect of lockdowns that kept people mostly confined to their homes for months during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic that began in March 2020 showed children were hard hit by the isolation.
That was found in a study, The Effects of COVID-19 Restrictive Measures on the Rights of the Child by Antonios Kouroutakis, an Assistant Professor at the IE University in Madrid said Kathimerini.
The study was conducted under the auspices of the Ombudsman in collaboration with the UNICEF Greece Country Office and with the coordination of the Assistant Ombudsman for the Rights of the Child.
Perhaps not surprising was just how severe the emotional toll was, with 87.2 percent of parent or guardians noticing their children were more anxious, and 42.2 percent experiencing emotional transitions.
Junior high and high school students who had to take classes online with schools shut down lost touch with their friends for the most part, despite being allowed for exercise with social distancing.
The study showed 90.6 percent of teens weren’t happy with taking remote courses by themselves and 53.1 percent said there were Internet connection problems disrupting those classes and had difficulty concentrating.
The research drew on questionnaires distributed electronically to children, parents, teachers and others, the paper also said.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.