Children tumble off a yellow school bus, where every other seat is marked with caution tape. Wearing whimsical masks—one has whiskers, another rhinestones—they wait to get their temperatures checked before filing into the one-story school building. Inside Wesley Elementary in Middletown, Conn., plastic shields rise from desks, and cartoon posters […]
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Graduate Dylan Davis is congratulated by coach John Shanahan as he exits the Laguna Beach High drive-through graduation at Guyer Field. (Don Leach / Times Community News) Orange County education leaders voted 4 to 1 Monday evening to approve recommendations for reopening schools in the fall that do not include […]
Graduate Dylan Davis is congratulated by Coach John Shanahan as he exits the Laguna Beach High drive-through graduation at Guyer Field. (Don Leach / Daily Pilot) Orange County education leaders on Monday are expected to consider a set of recommendations for reopening schools in the fall that does not include […]
When the coronavirus pandemic forced schools around the world to stop offering in-person classes this year, more than 1.5 billion kids wound up at home, struggling to learn—with their parents struggling alongside them. For the online learning nonprofit Khan Academy, which is best known for video tutorials for middle- and […]
COVID-19 has altered nearly every aspect of higher education. Gerald Herbert/AP Editor’s note: From time to time, we ask the leaders of our country’s colleges and universities to address some of the most pressing issues in higher education. Here, the presidents of three universities answer six critical questions about the […]
(Photo: Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Terri Johnson/Getty) This story about rural education was produced as part of the series Critical Condition: The Students the Pandemic Hit Hardest, reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Terri Johnson willed her body not […]