Apr 11 Are schools open? Governor, NYC mayor give different answers By Karen Matthews, Brian Mahoney, Associated Press The state governor and the New York City mayor are at odds over whether public school sites in the 1.1 million-student district will be shuttered for the rest of the academic year to curb the coronavirus. Continue reading
Apr 10 DeVos reaches settlement in lawsuit over loan relief program By Collin Binkley, Associated Press The U.S. Education Department is promising to process student loan forgiveness claims for nearly 170,000 borrowers within 18 months as part of a proposed settlement announced Friday in a federal lawsuit filed in California. Continue reading
Apr 08 Oregon governor says state’s schools will stay closed through academic year By Associated Press The announcement places the state’s more than 550,000 students and their teachers in uncharted territory as districts with vastly different resources plan for weeks of remote learning. Continue reading
Apr 07 Pass/fail grades may help students during the COVID-19 crisis, but could cost them later By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report The already dismal rate at which academic credit transfers from one college to another is likely to be even lower for the many courses this semester graded simply “pass.” Competitive professional or graduate programs may not accept them at all. Continue reading
Apr 07 Column: How colleges, hospitals and cities can work together to save lives By Dr. Michael Apkon, Joseph Curtatone, Breanna Lungo-Koehn, Dr. Anthony P. Monaco, Dr. Assaad Sayah In most major cities, there are natural partners that are uniquely suited to help relieve this unprecedented strain from the novel coronavirus pandemic on the hospital system. The key is to get started planning right now. Continue reading
Apr 05 Watch 4:15 Should parents lower the bar while working from home? By Zachary Green With the growing coronavirus outbreak, millions of parents in the U.S. are being asked to work from home while also caring for their children. Balancing the two may seem like an impossible task. But one writer says that this is… Continue watching
Mar 31 Watch 11:07 How learning changes when school happens at home and online By Lorna Baldwin, Leah Nagy More than 55 million American students are staying home amid the coronavirus pandemic. The impacts are huge — affecting students, parents and teachers. Learning is happening with a host of new challenges. Kate Gardoqui of the Great Schools Partnership joins… Continue watching
Mar 31 Can hands-on career education go online during school shutdowns? By Steven Yoder, Hechinger Report How do you teach welding virtually? As the coronavirus spreads, colleges are trying to figure out that and more on the fly. Continue reading
Mar 30 School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students By Meg Kinnard, Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press School districts and governments are now racing to give the millions of U.S. students without home internet a chance of keeping up. The nation's largest school districts, including Los Angeles and New York, are spending millions of dollars to provide… Continue reading
Mar 27 Forced off campus by coronavirus, students aren’t won over by online education By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report Online education experts say there’s a big difference between classes that were designed to be digital from the beginning and what’s happening now, which they describe as a product more of panic than planning. Continue reading