After three weeks of school closures, Kymberly Calhoun was concerned about her son, a basketball player at Western International High School in Detroit. He was struggling to get out of bed in the morning and playing too many video games.…
For the first time in France’s history, students won’t take the national end-of-high-school exam known as the Baccalaureat this year, amid school closures due to the coronavirus crisis. Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer made the announcement Friday. Many other countries in…
The $2 trillion coronavirus law could give the education secretary the power to waive special education rules as school districts struggle to teach all their students online.
In one three-week period, a pandemic has completely changed the national landscape on assessment. Every single state has won permission to skip the statewide standardized tests that are required by federal law, something that hasn't happened since 1994, when the…
Eighty-four percent of teachers agree with states’ and districts’ decisions to close schools due to COVID-19, but more than half are concerned students will struggle to learn in a virtual environment and fall behind academically, according to survey results released Thursday.…
Novelist Jacqueline Woodson is a slow reader. Taking her time lets her savor each word, brings her closer to each story, and it lets her pay respect to her ancestors who weren't allowed to read.
Mackenzie Horvath had high hopes for the last few months of her senior year at Jackson Memorial High School. The 17-year-old had a great job at Jackson Premium Outlets, she’d committed to Montclair State University for the fall, and she…
When Henry County Schools, along with the rest of the districts in Georgia, closed down because of the novel coronavirus, Jolie Hardin, executive director of leadership development and employment services for the district, knew there was one March event that…
Due to the uncertainties surrounding the health and financial implications of the pandemic, many colleges will not have filled their classes by the traditional May 1 deadline. Colleges that are concerned about not meeting their numerical enrollment goals will likely be…
Right now students are out of school in 185 countries. According to UNESCO, that's roughly 9 out of 10 schoolchildren worldwide. The world has never seen a school shutdown on this scale. And not since Great Britain during World War II…
Like many high school juniors, Sarah Alli-Brown has had a lot of thoughts swimming through her head these last two weeks. Are we going to go back to school? What about the SAT? Would it be illegal to have SAT…
With the present need for coronavirus tests, university research labs are rapidly switching to patient testing. Many are calling on graduate student volunteers to make it happen.
Schools Reconsider the Calendar as Students Grow More Diverse
School districts are competing against each other for purchases of digital devices as remote learning expands to schools across the country.
Schools are wrestling with how to handle grading in a remote learning environment when not all students have reliable access to teachers, online resources, and parents who can help them.
