

Education Jan 01

Students are still struggling to find spaces in their homes to work, dealing with financial and health crises, and homeschooling their own children or siblings.
By Lilah Burke, Inside Higher Education
Education Nov 26

More U.S. schools are rethinking traditional Thanksgiving lessons that focus on the English settlers but teach little about Native Americans.
By Collin Binkley, Associated Press
Education Nov 25

The rampant spread of the coronavirus has exposed a crisis of crumbling and dilapidated school buildings brought on by decades of underfunding and neglect.
By Meredith Kolodner and Bracey Harris, Neal Morton, The Hechinger Report
Education Oct 12

A dozen charter schools have essentially chosen to become medical-educational experiments, offering in-person instruction for select groups of students.
By Ashraf Khalil, Associated Press
Sep 14

By Associated Press
Schools throughout the country struggled to identify new classroom spaces, for instance in church oratory buildings, and construct outside learning spaces.
Aug 30

While virtual learning is not expected to be a long-term substitute for in-person learning, there are various creative ways in which educators can innovate and experiment to improve the experience. Sal Khan, Founder and CEO of Khan Academy, an education…
Aug 30

By PBS NewsHour Weekend
Even as schools strategize reopening, parents don’t know what the upcoming school year might look like. Some are struggling with balancing work with parenting while others are trying to cope with schools shifting from a hybrid structure to remote learning.
Aug 29

By PBS NewsHour
When schools across the nation shifted to remote learning at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the change exacerbated several inequities between students including class, race, access to technology, and learning abilities, indicating which students may or may not succeed.
Aug 27

By Aaricka Washington, The Hechinger Report
Education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history and antiracism. With young kids, the challenge is finding ways to tackle those topics in substantive yet age-appropriate ways.
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