How four middle schoolers are navigating the pandemic
Isolated from peers and forced into remote learning, students experience loss, educational setbacks – and some unexpected academic progress.
‘It’s just too much’: Why some students are abandoning community colleges
Fall enrollment at community colleges was down 10 percent from a year earlier, according to National Student Clearinghouse data.
For some colleges, COVID-19 ‘accelerated innovation’ in how to adapt
The pandemic has accelerated innovation in an industry that’s usually slow to change.
‘I’ve never seen the campus’: What it’s like to attend Harvard from your childhood bedroom
Zoom lectures haven’t been as bad as she thought they would be, though the upstairs neighbor’s vacuuming is distracting when she’s trying to pay attention.
The rampant spread of the coronavirus has exposed a crisis of crumbling and dilapidated school buildings brought on by decades of underfunding and neglect.
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.
Mental health support, better remote instruction and a focus on vulnerable students -- high schoolers are pressing legislatures and school boards to make their appeals heard.
With their summer jobs and internships canceled and anxiety about getting Covid-19 — or just succumbing to boredom — college students have found one type of work that they largely can do at home this summer: mentoring younger students to…
Local high school students convinced Pennsylvania’s Historical and Museum Commission to commemorate Philadelphia’s 1967 Black student walkouts. Soon afterward, city officials removed a statue honoring the former police commissioner who ordered the young protesters beaten.
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