Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940 opened up an evacuation account for each of the Bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey, to which certain costs could be charged, such as the cost of the evacuation ships, rail travel and the education costs of children. There were concerns over helping Channel Island private schools with their costs as British private schools received no help when evacuated from cities. From the people who had left the Channel Islands in 1939-40 and been evacuated in 1940, over 10,000 islanders served with Allied forces. A higher percentage of serving people from the islands had died per head of pre-war population than
Lisa Guernsey Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens", was published in September 2015 and is co-written with Michael H. Levine of the Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Lisa Guernsey Lisa Guernsey (born April 6, 1971) is an American early education researcher, author, and former journalist. She is currently director of the Learning Technologies Project at New America, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. She is also deputy director of the organization's Education Policy Program. Guernsey is a former technology and education writer at "The New York Times". She has written for numerous other major publications including