Parents across America are facing the pandemic school year feeling overwhelmed, anxious and abandoned. With few good options for support, the vast majority have resigned themselves to going it alone, a new survey for The New York Times has found. Just one in seven parents said their children would be […]
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling on House lawmakers to return this week to vote on a bill that would block the changes that the Trump administration has made to the U.S. Postal Service. Pelosi and other Democrats say the changes will cause a slowing of the flow of mail and potentially […]
Traci Wells was at a school board meeting when she found out the springtime balancing act between her job and helping her children with online schooling would stretch into the fall. “I was like, I cannot do six more months of this,” says Wells, a mother of four, who is director […]
The usual debates in education circles aren’t helping right now. These conversations — about school choice and vouchers and equity, public vs. private vs. charter vs. home, standardized testing and screen time and district residency rules and teachers’ unions — can’t be suspended as COVID-19 spikes around the country ahead […]
Traci Wells was at a school board meeting when she found out the springtime balancing act between her job and helping her children with online schooling would stretch into the fall. “I was like, I cannot do six more months of this,” says Wells, a mother of four, who is director […]
Getty Images Today, A-level students around the country will have received their results, giving them an indication of where they might go to university. The results were expected to be mired in controversy following a last-minute decision by the government to allow students in England to use mock exam results […]
Olivia dark, 18: ‘I’d mentally prepared to go this year and have no idea what I’d do in a gap year. I feel ready to start a new chapter in my life’ – JAY WILLIAMS For countless British school leavers, the emotional maelstrom of the past few months didn’t end […]
Welcome to Money Diaries — College Edition where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last dollar. Today: a public health major at a university that costs $30,000 per […]
University of Miami football coach Manny Diaz made a surprise appearance during a Zoom videoconference with the media Tuesday night. He spoke about everything from the first five days of practice to handling coronavirus-related matters to the news of the Big Ten and Pac-10 announcing they won’t play football this […]
Large lecture halls, packed libraries and bustling dining halls won’t be the reality this year for local colleges. Instead, many facilities will be closed or reorganized to encourage social distancing. Schools such as DePaul University, Loyola University Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago all have extensive pages dedicated […]
Exactly a year ago, the Indian government scrapped the controversial Article 370 from the country’s constitution to strip the northernmost state of Jammu & Kashmir of its autonomy. With that, it also cut off internet access for millions of people in the region, with a view to maintaining law and […]
Many of the nation’s largest school districts plan to begin the fall semester online-only. As schools consider reopening, children face a future in which online courses will probably be part of the curriculum. To make the best of this situation, here are some tips to help your child adapt to learning from home. Studies show that in online learning, […]
CHICAGO – Millions of parents across the nation are facing difficult decisions about what to do with their kids this school year. But the pandemic affects every family differently, for reasons that range from their socioeconomic status to their health to the fields they work in. Some parents are in a […]
Roberto Jurado hid with his 88-year-old mother between toy machines at the entrance of the Cielo Vista Walmart. Lying in broken glass, he listened as the sound of gunshots grew closer. Then the man with the AK-47 was only 10 feet away. “That day, I believe I stared death in the […]
CHICAGO – Millions of parents across the nation are facing difficult decisions about what to do with their kids this school year. But the pandemic affects every family differently, for reasons that range from their socioeconomic status to their health to the fields they work in. Some parents are in a […]
LANSDALE, PA — The North Penn School Board of Directors voted on Thursday evening to begin the school year fully online, with no in-person instruction through early November. They join Norristown and Upper Dublin as other Montgomery County school districts who have decided against bringing students back into physical classrooms […]
In its biggest coronavirus vaccine deal yet, the U.S. said Friday it will pay French pharmaceutical company Sanofi and Great Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline up to $2.1 billion to test and produce 100 million doses of an experimental coronavirus vaccine. The deal is part of Operation Warp Speed, a White House-led initiative aimed […]
Last spring, with schools shut down to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, educational apps became a lifesaver. As parents, educators and students adjusted to the virtual classroom, many leaned on apps and tech to help bridge the gaps in learning. Among them was the popular Khan Academy, started […]
Miami-Dade County Public Schools will start the school year remotely — and late — on Aug. 31, school officials announced Wednesday. Students, parents and teachers have been anticipating what some would say was an inevitable decision by school officials. With less than a month to go and an infection rate […]