The tensions point to the difficulty governors across the Northeast have had in persuading districts to reopen — decisions that often require school boards to buck powerful unions.
One bird feeder became two, then three. Months passed.
A reader found consoling words a great help in her grief; another finds that even decades later the feelings of loss don’t go away. Also: How schools will be transformed.
Thanksgiving Eve could be a super-spreading event.
Thanksgiving — like the rest of life — just isn’t the same through a screen.
He says that he has celebrated educators more than any mayor in the last 20 years, but Bill de Blasio has taken heat from all sides about school policy during the pandemic.
Mittens and hot tea can go a long way.
The nation’s largest public school system defied the odds to reopen for in-person classes. Eight weeks later, the schools are having to shut again.
Educate a girl. Send a young person to college. Restore a person’s sight.
Some students in a mostly white New York suburb said the flag made them feel unsafe. Banning it prompted accusations of political bias.
For the first time since 1997, Texas’ education board made major changes to its sex education standards, allowing the teaching of contraceptive methods to middle school students.
Nicholas Kristof wrote that President Trump was right to push for reopening schools. Three readers disagree.
It is unclear when in-person instruction will restart, but the number of children who will return to classrooms has fallen short of the mayor’s predictions.
“Does the mayor think we’re all stay-at-home moms?”
With coronavirus cases surging, educators who moved classes outside are now grappling with how to keep kids safe from both the virus and the elements.
A committee found that the athletic department broke an N.C.A.A. rule by revoking Henry Bazakas’s summer scholarship. His fight to get it back showed the cutthroat side of college football.
With relatively low virus rates, the city faces a dilemma over a return to in-person instruction.
As schools close again, frustrated and angry parents say the decision does not make the city safer.
As schools close again, frustrated and angry parents say the decision does not make the city safer.
Without federal help, states have no good choices. But is keeping students home the worst one to make first?
In this lesson, students will learn how some Native Americans are re-envisioning Thanksgiving during a year of racial reckoning and Covid-19 deaths.
Well, many reasons. But Harvard economist Raj Chetty says that’s the age at which America’s “Einsteins” are identified — and lost.
A fresh round of federal aid can keep restaurants in business during the winter months while protecting public health.
Children have suffered because many mayors and governors were too willing to close public schools.
In a big setback for the city’s recovery, the nation’s largest district will return to all-remote learning.
In a brutal school year, mothers keep the country afloat.
While the targets unquestionably suffer the most, denying people equal opportunities diminishes the finances of millions of Americans.
That’s exactly the opposite of what we should be doing right now.
Schools are essential while restaurants are not, said Dr. Gounder. And manufacturers may soon be ordered to produce protective gear for health workers.
Answer: Schools over restaurants, for now.
Social ties to classmates and how students feel could be more important than innate ability when it comes to enduring early STEM courses.
Inspiradas en un movimiento social, estudiantes y maestras colocan toallas sanitarias afuera de los baños como parte de una campaña comunitaria para luchar contra la pobreza menstrual y eliminar el estigma que rodea a la menstruación.
The U.S. military’s past battles with Infectious disease have helped it fight off coronavirus.
The U.S. military’s past battles with Infectious disease have helped it fight off coronavirus.
Weeks after he managed to reopen the New York City school system, Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing fresh questions about if and when to close it.
Millions of American students lack reliable internet access. Some are learning in parking lots connected to Wi-Fi buses or crashing with relatives to get online.
Rising cases may end in-person teaching, even as restaurants remain open
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has presented an education agenda that is starkly different from the Trump era, beginning with a far more cautious approach to school reopenings.
The incoming administration has proposed a series of changes that could affect more than 42 million student loan borrowers. Here’s what to expect.
The challenges of the diagnosis make it unclear whether the condition is outgrown or simply becomes better managed, experts say.
Science increasingly suggests classrooms can be kept open safely. But dining rooms pose a different problem.
Science increasingly suggests classrooms can be kept open safely. But dining rooms pose a different problem.
Remote learning, lockdowns and pandemic uncertainty have increased anxiety and depression among adolescents, and heightened concerns about their mental health.
New York and New Jersey have imposed new restrictions to curb a spike in coronavirus cases.
Scenes and snippets from families across the country.
Scenes and snippets from families across the country.
The school system, the nation’s largest, has had strikingly few virus cases. Even so, the mayor may end in-person classes because the city’s overall rate is surging.
Many parents are concerned to see what their kids are learning about food, body image and weight while remote learning.
In 1960, Ms. Bridges enrolled her daughter Ruby in an all-white school in New Orleans and escorted her there, breaking through segregation.
Philadelphia, Minneapolis and other major cities have suspended reopening plans, as cases rise nationwide
William Latson was fired last year after an email exchange about staying “politically neutral” about Holocaust education became public. After being rehired last month, he was fired again on Tuesday.
Experts worry that some of the hundreds of thousands of departing students will be “little ticking time bombs.”
Health officials and college administrators are worried about Thanksgiving. We have tips to students and families prepare for an uncertain holiday.
Students and teachers are placing pads outside bathrooms as part of a grass-roots campaign to fight period poverty and to remove the stigma surrounding menstruation.
Dorothy Maynor never sang at the Met, but the school she founded is glowing anew, thanks to the revitalization of its beloved “gathering place.”
A new study might shed light on why children experience the virus differently.
Charu Robinson was one of the pioneers who inspired a generation of children to play a game that had been the province of elite schools.
Leaving children to teach themselves from a sofa might be the greatest untold tragedy of the pandemic.
Creators of the Portland-area approach tried to avoid the pitfalls of similar policies elsewhere, and are giving teachers large raises.
A mother fears that her kids are learning less and missing more.
As the results of the 2020 election hang in the balance, we’re focusing on a district that epitomizes the heated debate over reopening schools.
Only one in four students have returned to classrooms. The remainder have two weeks left to decide if they’ll go back, too.
Students are fighting for voting access and helping at the polls, despite the difficulties of the pandemic.
College students, we know this is a hectic year. How are you planning for the holiday?
A debate over reopening classrooms pits the mayor against the Board of Education, cutting across class, party and racial lines.
“We cannot and will not allow our children and young people’s futures to be another victim of this disease,” the Irish prime minister said.
With her husband, she founded Prairie Seeds Academy in Minneapolis, a charter school centered on Hmong language, culture and heritage. She died of the coronavirus.
Europe’s latest wave of restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus have largely avoided closing schools. We take a look at why and how they are being kept open.
How one researcher arrived at a figure of more than a million and a half.
Here’s what teenagers can do to equip themselves to move forward during this difficult and frustrating time.
“Nonprofits throughout the country and the millions of Americans who depend on them cannot wait until after the election for relief.” Also: Helping coal miners; how the use of pens can help learning.
Just 26 percent of students have attended any in-person class.
When learning is virtual, Black parents can watch for unfair treatment.
For Carl and Jesse Crawford, raising six young children was challenging enough. Now add a pandemic.
Thousands of cases have already been linked to schools this season. But a lack of reporting means that a national accounting remains out of reach.
Mayor Bill de Blasio canceled the start of in-person classes for the country’s largest school system just three days before they were set to begin, sowing even more confusing among parents and educators.
As students across the country start school, education experts reckon with the long-term implications of remote learning, vanishing resources and heightened inequality.
Public schools are obligated to teach millions of students with disabilities. But as learning moves online, many services that parents fought for are at risk.
More than 100,000 city public school students lack permanent housing, caught in bureaucratic limbo that often seems like a trap. This is what their lives are like.
Students at Richmond Hill High School in Queens don’t come from privileged backgrounds, but they go to college in impressive numbers. This year could look different.
Young children seem to catch and transmit the virus less, but rising numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths show they are increasingly affected.
New estimates show that large parts of the country would likely see infected students if classrooms opened now.
An illustrated guide to how schools will try to control the coronavirus when students return to their classrooms, this fall or in the future.
Racism is at the heart of our nation’s inequality.
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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.