Lourdes Pelaez-Kingery was recovering from appendix surgery when she got the phone call that parents of college-age kids have come to dread in this time of coronavirus: Her daughter tearfully explained that she had moved out of her dorm at Texas A&M University-San Antonio days earlier after her suitemates threw […]
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Alternatively, he could have decided weeks, if not months ago to start the school year completely remote and announced that the city would gradually move toward in-person learning if conditions allowed for it. But the mayor chose neither of those paths. He set deadlines that he refused to put in […]
To enjoy the CBBC Newsround website at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on. Young app designers have developed an education app Lockdown saw lots of people doing all sorts of new things. A team of young business minded children, turned their attention to creating an app! […]
Sal Khan’s first inkling that COVID-19 was going to disrupt education around the world came in February, when the popular online learning platform he created saw a surge in traffic from South Korea. “We got a letter from a teacher who was saying how they were using Khan Academy to […]
More from Variety “Olivia Pope had no vulnerabilities. Outside of Fitz, she was a superhero,” Washington explains during a Zoom call from her Los Angeles area home. “And just built into Black motherhood is fear and vulnerability. And that was a layer to her identity that Shonda knew was not […]
Switching from in-person to online schooling has been hard on many families – and on their budgets. About one-quarter of parents say they’ve gone into debt to pay for their kids’ at-home school expenses, with a large share blaming the cost of paying for their kids’ breakfasts and lunches when […]
Aug. 17, 2020: Nordstrom is joining forces with nonprofit Shoes That Fit for the 10th year in a row to provide new sneakers to children in need in local communities. This year, the department store has enlisted the help of Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas to encourage people to help […]
I saw a Tesla with #BlackLivesMatter written on the rear windshield the other day. It appeared to be a parent picking up their kid from a “pandemic pod,” which, if you’re not familiar, is a small cluster of families who pool resources to hire a private tutor, who may be […]
Photo credit: Staff From Popular Mechanics For many families, the prospect of going back to school is still up in the air. Even if schools do open up again, some of us are still opting to keep our kids at home. But just because it may be the safest option […]
(Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) With in-person school just starting for many children, face masks have become the new backpacks in terms of being necessities for at least 2020 and 2021. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children 2 and older “wear masks in public and […]
The temptation, while watching Jesse Moss’ and Amanda McBaine’s endlessly compelling documentary Boys State, is to look upon our nation’s youth and despair. This immersive piece of verite —like the filmmakers’ previous work, The Overnighters, the film makes you feel as if you are experiencing it in real time—chronicles the […]
Kids bike deals Teaching your kids to ride a bike is a task that every parent will face, and there are multiple ways to go about it. Typically, the process consisted of a number of months using stabilisers followed by that unnerving-but-joyous day when the stabilisers came off. The invention […]
It’s the question weighing on every parent’s mind: Given the ongoing threat of the coronavirus, is it a good idea for my kid to return to the classroom? As of last week, 17 of the nation’s 20 largest K-12 school districts were preparing to start the academic year with online-only instruction, […]
The 2020-2021 school year will soon begin the way it ended in South Florida: online. And while your child may be temporarily learning through a computer screen instead of in a classroom, that doesn’t mean you should delay a trip to the doctor. All public and private schoolchildren from kindergarten […]
Zachary Carr hadn’t known Victor for long. Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. But Carr had spent enough one-on-one time with Victor to discern that the boy was unusually fidgety during their latest morning […]
Get ready to pack your back-to-school pencils, binders and … hand sanitizer? While some schools and universities are opting for remote learning or a hybrid of in-person and online sessions, others are pushing ahead with in-person classes – with proper sanitation protocols, of course. Social distancing markings, COVID program coordinators and smaller class sizes are only a […]
South Florida parents, desperate for in-person education for their kids during the COVID-19 pandemic, are teaming up with their neighbors to create 21st-century schoolhouses in their homes and offices, complete with teachers and tutors to supervise. These parents were disappointed with the virtual offerings from South Florida’s school districts last […]
From Good Housekeeping As the novel coronavirus pandemic surges on, the demand for face masks has some retailers scrambling to make more — and sometimes, finding a mask that’s actually in stock and ready to be shipped is tricky. Medical-grade surgical masks are in tight supply as healthcare workers on […]
Maria Reyes, second from left, spends time with her daughters Marilyn, 9, from left, Darlene, 4, Sophia, 6, and Leilani, 5, right, near their home in Los Angeles on July 27. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Darlene Bahena flounced around her dusty backyard in a sleeveless blue princess dress […]
A student gets his temperature checked by a teacher before entering a summer STEM camp at Wylie High School in Texas. Schools across the USA continue to plan on how to reopen schools this fall. As many school districts across the USA prepare to reopen campuses, some fear classrooms will become […]