Officials in Lynchburg, Virginia, said Tuesday they were fielding complaints about the hundreds of students who have returned from their spring break to Liberty University, where President Jerry Falwell Jr. has welcomed them back amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We could…
This was the week that American schools across the country closed their doors. It was the week that our public schools—often dismissed as mediocre, inequitable, or bureaucratic—showed just how much they mean to American society by their very absence. The unprecedented…
For Jalen Grimes, the virus pandemic is stirring up a slew of emotions. “Annoyed" is the first one the 13-year-old Chicagoan mentions. “Scared, confused, worried.” She was supposed to be enjoying the end of her eighth-grade year, a rite of…
I’m a parent of a high school student with high functioning autism and epilepsy. As schools all around the country announce shutdowns and move towards online education, kids like mine are going to suffer the most. The move to online…
As the principal of a small private school in Gloucester County, Mary Alimenti knows every dollar is precious, even when times are good. So with the coronavirus pandemic closing classrooms at Edgarton Christian Academy until at least the end of…
After all the admission tests, campus tours and college applications, after nervous weeks of waiting followed by the joy of acceptance or heartache of rejection, many high school seniors aiming for selective schools find one spring date looms large: May…
Schools may be shuttered and families hunkered down, but teacher Tim Rodman is keeping his Maryland classroom going during the coronavirus pandemic — ever the energetic voice of AP Macroeconomics as he hosts a video call with students who live 40 miles…
Beyond the health effects and the impact on the economy, the coronavirus has created a long tail of impacts in the United States and the world, and one of the biggest impacts has come in education. The number of K-12 school closures has skyrocketed in…
After her sixth-grade son’s school in Buffalo, New York, closed amid the coronavirus outbreak, Roxanne Ojeda-Valentin returned to campus with shopping bags to take home textbooks and weeks’ worth of assignments prepared by teachers. A single mother with a full-time…
Schools offering online instruction during the state shutdown of schools won’t be able to count any of that time toward the requirements that schools provide 180 days of instruction. That ruling from the Michigan Department of Education was met with…
Elementary and secondary schools will not be required to do standardized testing, and student borrowers with federal loans can request a reprieve from loan payments while the nation confronts the spreading coronavirus, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced on Friday. “A…
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education announced new K-12 and higher education policies in response to disruptions caused by the coronavirus. In K-12, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced the department will waive standardized test requirements for states affected by the virus.…
The fiscal impact from the pandemic could threaten everything from teacher raises and new programs to long-term efforts to overhaul school aid formulas,funding analysts warn.
Skyler Buie, 17, wasn't all that interested in going to the prom at his high school in Gardner, Kansas. But graduation? "It's a special thing that only really happens once," the senior at Gardner Edgerton High School said, "and now…
How do you create community when you can’t be together? Schools are closed for hundreds of millions of students, but educators, parents, and children are still learning – including how to keep a sense of connection.
