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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many MSK team members found themselves juggling new safety protocols, changing work schedules and homework. 

You read that right: homework.

As NYC-area schools closed their doors and transitioned to virtual learning, parents and caregivers were left balancing their own workload while also needing to provide more help for their kids on school work than ever before. 

This included explaining difficult concepts, helping kids juggle all of their assignments and schedules, and trying to make sense of Common Core math. 

That’s when MSK started offering a unique benefit for all employees and their families: Homework Connection.

It’s a no-cost-to-employee, online, virtual tutoring service for all children and dependents of MSK employees. Offering help for kids in kindergarten through college, the service has tutors who speak English and Spanish standing by 24/7 (no appointments necessary) to help out with assignments, studying, test prep and more. The feedback on the program so far  has been very positive.

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“All of our employees have lives and responsibilities outside of work, and our goal is always to find ways that we can help them succeed in every aspect of their lives,” said Christine Pfeiffer, Associate Director of Work/Life & Recognition. “During the pandemic, virtual school work became a big struggle and we wanted to help.”

Homework Connection is provided through LifeCare, one of MSK’s Work/Life benefit providers. All MSK employees can sign up and register, so that their account is ready to go when they need it. 

Any child, spouse or dependent of an MSK employee can use the service to get help on all subjects. It even has test prep for students planning to take the SAT, ACT or any other standardized test given throughout the country. 

“No more searching for the right tutor, figuring out if their schedule works for your family and how to pay for the help your kids need,” said Candice DeJesus, a Work/Life Program Manager at MSK. “This service takes care of all of that for you.”

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When a student needs help, they can log into their account and request a tutor. HomeWork Connection has more than 25,000 professional tutors, many of whom are current or retired teachers.

Students can get help on a particular assignment, tutoring on a subject they’re struggling with, or get help preparing for an upcoming test. 

They connect with a tutor via web chat, phone or video and have up to 5 hours of free tutoring a month. Students also have unlimited access to study guides, practice tests and other resources. 

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Homework Connection is also offering Parent Coaching to help parents better understand and assist their kids with their homework. 

Employees who are going back to school themselves can also use it for help with college coursework. 

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As school schedules continue to evolve in the upcoming months and into the fall, Homework Connection will continue to be a resource -- so kids get the help they need, parents have one thing taken off of their plate, and, ultimately, families have more quality time to spend together.

“Parents are very busy and every minute we spend with our children we want it to be quality time,” DeJesus said. “So to have something like this to be the middle ground and allow parents to take something off of their plate -- it’s a game changer.”

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Electric Boat Benefits recently announced the addition of a free tutoring benefit through LifeCare called Homework Connection. As a reminder, Homework Connection provides access to thousands of online tutors to help your child with their at-home assignments, projects and papers. This benefit is at no cost to you and will be automatically included in your existing employee benefits package. Each family will be allotted 5 hours of tutoring per month. There are three main components to using the online tutoring:

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SHELTON, Conn. , Feb. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The country's leading work-life provider, LifeCare, has experienced a dramatic increase in the usage of MilkShip – their breast milk shipping service enabling breastfeeding moms to send their milk home while they travel.

"When we launched the MilkShip service, we knew that being able to safely ship valuable breast milk home to children was supremely important to breastfeeding moms traveling on business," explains Peter Burki , Founder & CEO of LifeCare, "We are pleased that, over the past year, we have seen such a significant increase in utilization by our members."

Specifically, the number of MilksShip requests fulfilled in January 2020 was equal to the total of requests received in the first half of 2019. In all of these instances, mothers faced with the prospect of business travel were able to maintain their breastfeeding and pumping schedules. MilkShip saved them from needing to stockpile milk in advance of their travel, an option that may not have been available due to timing and other considerations.

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A railroad track in Moscow, Arkansas.

A railroad track in Moscow, Arkansas. 

Photo courtesy of Erjan Aisabay.

When Jack Spaulding was growing up in Moscow, Tennessee, he always wondered how the town, a small, rural community of about 80 residents, got its name. It didn’t seem to have any obvious connection with Russia, but could any of the local tales he’d heard actually be true?

“I would ask all the old folks here in town if anybody knew how the town got its name. Well, I got all these hokey answers like, ‘Well, it's because of the moss and... they used to send the cows down there to graze on the moss. Moss cow. And then after that Ma's cow — like, belonging to your mother's. ... Nobody really had any idea where the name came about,” Spaulding says.

A mailbox in Moscow, Kentucky.

A mailbox in Moscow, Kentucky. 

Photo courtesy of Erjan Aisabay. 

Spaulding eventually dug deeper, and his research turned up an unexpected finding: The area had been known as something like “Moscow” since before the town was founded in the early 1800s. That clue led him in a new direction.  

“I went through the dictionary looking for any type of word that would sound similar to Moscow or would be spoken by Europeans like 'Moscow' and I believe as I recall, the word closest to that was Mashetow," he says.

According to Spaulding, Mashetow was a Native American word meaning "to go" or "the place to where we're going."

"I think Moscow was the place to where the Native Americans would go for the watering ground. ... What is this place? Mashetow! This is the place we're going.”

Spaulding’s conclusion wasn’t definitive, but it was a worthy effort. He isn’t the only person to set out trying to figure out why a small town in the middle of America acquired the same name as the capital of Russia. There are more than 20 identically named cities scattered across the country. There’s a Moscow in Idaho near the border with Washington, another up north in Maine and one down south in Texas.

When Ren Vasilyev, now a professor of geography at the State University of New York Geneseo, was a graduate student, she decided to tackle the riddle of America’s many Moscows. It was 1986, the height of the Cold War battle with the Moscow-capitaled Soviet Union, and in those misty pre-Internet days, a project like this required a lot of analog legwork.

She poured through old county history books, and found that just as with Spaulding's hometown, most of the Moscows in America didn’t have anything to do with Russia or its capital.

One was the result of a misunderstanding: Moscow, Kansas. Town officials had tried to name their city after Luis de Moscoso, a Spanish conquistador, but they decided to shorten the name to M-O-S-C-O. When they submitted an application to create a post office, it came back with the extra letter.

“The guy in DC thought that these little silly people in Kansas didn't know what they were doing and had spelled the name wrong. So he had added that W on it,” Vasilyev says.

But, the most common reason people named their community Moscow, she learned, was more straightforward.

“Things like Spring Valley or Springfield or Blossom Hill, or you know, those kind of pretty generic names were already taken. And so people started using what were considered exotic names, hoping that no one had already used them,” she says.

The fire department in Moscow, Michigan.

The fire department in Moscow, Michigan. 

The mystery of the Moscows of America also intrigued Erjan Aisabay, who set out to visit all of them and write a book about his experience. Aisabay, who was born in Kazakhstan but attended college in the original Moscow, launched his project hoping that America’s shared love of Russia’s capital city might help bring the two countries together.

But as Aisabay drove from state to state, his dream of finding a Russian connection dwindled. And some of America’s Muscovites turned out to be less than supportive. Like in Moscow, Texas, where his attempt to strike up a conversation didn’t turn out as planned.

“I say, 'Hi my name is so and so, you know I'm writing a book about Moscows' and then you know she looks at me like completely mistrust and she's like 'You should leave.' ... And I saw something that looked like a gun. ... This was my last Moscow and I'm like, 'I don't want to die in my last Moscow!'”

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A road sign in Moscow, Ohio in 1987. 

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5:18 Reporter Alina Simone has always been curious about the origins of all the Moscows in the United States. There are 26 Moscows

6:39 Ren Vasilyev decided to tackle the riddle of America’s many Moscows as a graduate student in 1986

7:01 Most Moscows didn’t have much to do with Moscow. In fact, they weren’t even pronounced Moscow

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12:04 Erjan visited Moscow, PA to look for any evidence of the supposed Slavic connection

13:27 Professor Vasilyev’s research shows that only one Moscow, the town of Lester in New York, cast the name aside for political reasons

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