Jan 27 WATCH: Education Secretary Cardona gives update on student support during the COVID-19 pandemic By Collin Binkley, Associated Press Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Thursday that the nation’s schools must act more urgently to help millions of students who have fallen behind during the pandemic. "We must make up for lost time,” he said. Continue reading
Dec 17 Schools respond to emergency threats on TikTok By Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press Vickie Cartwright, the interim superintendent of schools in Broward County, Florida, one of the nation’s largest school districts, said the U.S. government should take action if TikTok won’t get rid of dangerous posts that hurt American schools. Continue reading
Sep 13 School vaccine campaigns targeting students face blowback By Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press A return to in-person school this month are raising the stakes for high school students who want to be safe in packed classrooms and homecoming rallies. Continue reading
Jun 16 Loan relief granted to defrauded for-profit college students By Associated Press The Biden administration said it is approving 18,000 loan forgiveness claims from former students of ITT Technical Institute. Continue reading
May 19 Watch 3:12 The hardships and lessons from teaching remotely during the pandemic This week we’ve been looking at how the pandemic affected students, their lives and their learning. Tonight we hear from teachers. These voices are part of “‘DISRUPTED’ — How COVID Changed Education,” a special report from the PBS NewsHour Student… Continue watching
Feb 04 Pressure builds on schools to reopen during pandemic By Michael Kunzelman, Holly Ramer, Associated Press The debate is pitting politicians against teachers who have yet to be vaccinated against COVID-19. In Chicago, there's so much rancor that teachers are on the brink of striking. Continue reading
Feb 02 Watch 7:43 Reopening schools during the pandemic is proving to be a complex assignment By Stephanie Sy As the pandemic drags on, the toll taken on students and teachers, while trying to protect them from infection, has become one of the outbreak's most vexing and intractable challenges. Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, the nation's… Continue watching
Dec 18 Abducted Nigerian schoolboys freed after quick response By Carley Petesch, Lekan Oyekanmi, Associated Press The relatively quick release of the more than 330 boys took place after a prompt response by the government, which appears to have learned from earlier mass school abductions, especially of the Chibok schoolgirls, that did not have such a… Continue reading
Dec 15 Boko Haram claims kidnapping of Nigeria students in north By Sam Olukoya, Associated Press Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadist rebels have claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in one of the largest attacks in years on a boys' school in northern Katsina state. Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch 9:40 How schools are coping with constantly changing landscape of COVID-19 By Amna Nawaz, Courtney Norris The past few weeks have represented a back-to-school period like no other in recent memory. How are students, teachers, parents and administrators adapting to an academic year reshaped by the pandemic? We hear directly from some of them, and Daniel… Continue watching