All but two of the nation’s 10 largest districts exceed a key public health threshold, according to a New York Times analysis.
Several psychologists and sexual health experts offer ways to make conversations about sex informative and comfortable for children and parents.
Readers suggest steps to minimize the risks, including prioritizing younger grades and making use of unused commercial spaces.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has become the face of the Trump administration’s demands, a stance diametrically opposite to how she has led the department.
California’s two largest districts made the joint call amid a White House push to get children back into classrooms.
As the school year looms, the pandemic is still raging.
A move may mean a welcome change of scenery for you, but to young children it can present an insecure world.
The pressure to bring American students back to classrooms is intense, but the calculus is tricky with infections still out of control in many communities.
China’s leaders have pushed the territory to revamp an education system they see as having bred young rebels who have helped drive pro-democracy protests.
Many first-generation, low-income Harvard students feel that the elite institution has failed them.
Teachers say crucial questions about how schools will stay clean, keep students physically distanced and prevent further spread of the virus have not been answered.
Officials need to think outside the school building.
A briefing packet for federal emergency response teams details the steps schools should take to reopen safely.
The decision to only reopen New York City’s public schools part time in September illustrates the looming threat to businesses.
The president might sabotage parents’ best hopes for getting their kids back to school.
Why does the president want to open everything up? It’s not because it’s safe to do so.
Brian M. Rosenthal’s upbringing in a Midwestern college town motivates his dogged reporting for The Times.
Students, women’s rights and education groups are seeking to delay or derail Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s broad overhaul of rules that govern sexual misconduct claims.
As President Trump and others push to get students back in the classroom this fall, educators say they need more support and clearer guidelines.
As President Trump and others push to get students back in the classroom this fall, educators say they need more support and clearer guidelines.
Nuestras dificultades no son una preocupación emocional. No estamos agotados, estamos siendo aplastados por una economía que ha declarado de manera incomprensible que los padres que trabajan no son esenciales.
Signature progressive programs like “Medicare for all” and the Green New Deal did not make it into the recommendations. But Senator Bernie Sanders’s allies pushed some policies to the left.
Rethink Impact invests solely in tech start-ups founded by women, which accounted for just 4 percent of all venture deals in the first quarter.
Schools are expected to partially reopen in the fall, with students in classrooms only a few days per week. But there's still a lot to figure out.
Right as the presidential campaign enters the final stretch, the nation’s schools will be plunged into a huge experiment during a pandemic.
The Trump administration is putting pressure on school districts to resume in-person learning by the fall.
Disregarding the advice of his own health experts, President Trump also attacked the C.D.C.’s reopening guidelines as onerous and expensive.
Classroom attendance in September will be limited to only one to three days a week in an effort to continue to curb the outbreak, the mayor said.
Disregarding the advice of his own health experts, President Trump also attacked the C.D.C.’s reopening guidelines as onerous and expensive.
The case was the court’s latest consideration of the relationship between the government and religion.
Trump and public health experts diverge on another front: This is your morning tip sheet.
President Trump spearheaded an administration-wide push to pry open the nation’s elementary and secondary schools, the next phase of his effort to get the economy on its feet.
President Trump said he would pressure governors and others to reopen schools this fall despite the growing number of coronavirus cases across the United States.
Mateo Mackbee and Erin Lucas left Minneapolis for a small central Minnesota community, where they are using their restaurant, bakery and farm to promote diversity and teach children about food.
The plan now emerging could have an enormous impact because the local economy may not fully recover until working parents can send children to school.
How to protect yourself from a virus that may be floating indoors? Better ventilation, for starters. And keep wearing those masks.
A look at what scientists have learned about how the virus takes hold in the body and where the risk of infection is highest.
“She Kills Monsters” is hugely popular in high schools and colleges. Even in lockdown, performers have found novel ways to make the battles come alive.
Our struggle is not an emotional concern. We are not burned out. We are being crushed by an economy that has bafflingly declared working parents inessential.
The court drew its decision narrowly when ruling against a Montana tax break that excluded religious schools. But denominational school advocates will push a broad application.
Facing a $9 billion loss in tax revenues, city leaders cut agency spending across the board, including the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Resuming classroom instruction is crucial. Infection control inside and outside classrooms can let it happen.
The coronavirus has triggered travel bans that could result in a significant drop in enrollment at top art and design schools.
Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics encourage “having students physically present in school.” Dr. Sean O’Leary, an author of that advice, explains why.
The cost of restarting classes could be high. Is the cost of not restarting them higher?
Students often have little help finding and applying for financial assistance, and miss out on opportunities for affordable higher education.
The junior class at Food and Finance High School in New York City reworked its usual project to reflect the pandemic and protests.
Religious schools should have the same access to scholarships and funds as other private schools, the justices ruled, in a victory for conservatives.
Government should treat the need to reopen schools as an emergency.
Bringing millions of students back to campus would create enormous risks for society but comparatively little educational benefit, an economist says.
A queer woman who once shunned tradition discovers domestic calm in uncertain times.
For many young athletes, senior night is the last act of the last season of their high school careers, and their days as competitive athletes. But how do you celebrate after the coronavirus rewrites the story?
Lurking. Peeping. Filters. Has Zoom actually improved this most fraught of American social rituals?
“I’m done with shame,” says Lacy Crawford, the author of the memoir “Notes on a Silencing.”
How the elementary school students of Staten Island’s P.S. 22 Chorus are harmonizing from afar.
Some American school districts are beginning to announce hybrid schedules that include a mix of online and in-school learning, presenting a difficult challenge for working parents.
Three women face the end of unemployment benefits while still struggling to find work.
Yearbook and high school newspaper editors have spent the past few months trying to preserve traditions upended by the coronavirus.
Thinking about big questions empowers children to feel more confident about the value of their own ideas, teachers say.
This pandemic has surfaced a dilemma frequently ignored: A-F grades are used poorly and for too many different purposes.
The books we read, the movies we watch, the friends we make, the doctors we visit and the conversations we have at home all shape our children’s views of race.
Disney English, once envisioned as a 150-location chain, walked a fine line between language education and brand building.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
High school students have organized protests in California, Maryland and Michigan. In one Texas suburb, three teenagers led hundreds of people in a march, and they say they aren’t done organizing.
Eight families on the brink of collapse share how they’ll fill their kids’ days.
La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos detuvo el plan de Donald Trump de terminar con DACA, el programa que protege de la deportación a cientos de miles jóvenes inmigrantes. La perseverancia de sus beneficiaros pasa por una lección entrañable: alzar la voz.
Reading is contagious, especially in a pandemic.
“Currently unemployed,” said the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. But for now, it’s time for some rest and Netflix.
A young legal immigrant applauds the Supreme Court decision on DACA so others who were brought here illegally have a chance at the American dream as well.
Racism is at the heart of our nation’s inequality.
Better education is not leading to equality.
We have seen our share of crisis, and we are ready to make things better.
La corte bloqueó al gobierno de Donald Trump de poner fin al programa que protege de la deportación a unos 700.000 jóvenes inmigrantes conocidos como “dreamers”. Esto es lo que necesitas saber.
Los consejos de un estudiante sobre cómo manejar la incertidumbre y luchar por una vida mejor.
Here’s what you need to know about a policy that protected from deportation people who were brought into the United States as children.
Here’s what you need to know about a policy that protected from deportation people who were brought into the United States as children.
From the coronavirus and college admissions to voting and video games, young people tell us about the issues that matter most to them.
A Virginia school district, determined not to let a pandemic keep students from their summer reading, is delivering books to students via the drone company run by Alphabet.
Prestigious all-girls schools, including Brearley and Chapin, have been rocked by allegations of racism made by generations of black graduates on Instagram.
Thousands of students should have been gathering to cheer on the year’s best shows. But this isn’t a typical year.
Learning has been online and remote this semester. So too, now, are call-outs of questionable behavior.
A large share of strapped school budgets is going to “merit aid” for wealthy kids, as part of a bidding war to enroll high-income students.
Charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run, are securing coronavirus relief meant for businesses even as they also benefit from public school aid.
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Our cities’ teachers on how children’s neighborhoods at birth shape their lives.
A city poised on the edge of Europe and the rest of the world became the incubator for talents like Dries Van Noten, Luc Tuymans and Ann Demeulemeester.
Facing the threat of the coronavirus, schools around the country are trying a new experiment in distance learning on a mass scale. We followed one family through the experience.
Here is a growing list of public and private schools, as well as colleges and universities, that have suspended or altered classes in the local effort to curb the outbreak.