Children need time to play and be outside. That will be true even if instructional hours are cut short due to social distancing.
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At least for now, hundreds of thousands of students can stay in school without facing new hardships.
More Americans are learning about the 1921 massacre in the prosperous black section of Tulsa known as the ‘Black Wall Street.’ For Gregory Fairchild, it is a part of his family history.
When it comes to making law enforcement professionals less likely to resort to use of force, higher education goes a long way, research shows.
School systems realized that they couldn’t deal with the pandemic on their own.
If a high school doesn’t offer advanced coursework, having students take such a class remotely offers a promising alternative.
Higher education can help empower students to take an active role in public safety. Here are several ways to do it.
Opening colleges and universities for in-person instruction this fall could be risky, but so could going online. A higher education funding expert explains why.
When Mikey Williams, one of the nation’s top high school basketball players, announced that he was thinking about going to a historically black college, the college basketball world paid attention.
Some school districts are starting to remove police. A team of researchers explains why that could be a welcome trend.
In a world beset by a global pandemic, colleges and universities may have to find a way for US students to study abroad without ever leaving American soil.
Youth physical inactivity was already a problem before COVID-19, but it doesn’t have to stay that way.
When white parents decide to homeschool, usually it’s to provide individualized education to their child. Research shows black parents homeschool for an entirely different reason.
Whether they’re holding hands and singing Ring Around the Rosie or posing during a TikTok video, kids connect to each other and find joy through dance.
If fewer students from other countries enroll in US colleges and universities this fall due to COVID-19, the effects would be felt well beyond the campus, an expert warns.
Epidemiologists focus on diseases among groups of people. They also study the spread of disease among animals.
With online learning and social distancing, kids are spending more time staring at screens and less time outdoors. That can put them at higher risk of myopia and serious eye problems in the future.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee highlights the richness of the English lexicon by picking some tough entries with foreign roots.
The COVID-19 pandemic has many students thinking about forgoing a year of college. A gap year specialist says many benefits flow from taking the academic break.
Making classrooms, cafeterias and other spaces less crowded will be essential. There are two main ways to do that.
The Education Department is reinterpreting rules Congress wrote for how public school systems should share federal dollars with private schools.
With colleges and universities having moved their instruction online due to COVID-19, an ecologist shows how service learning can take place in the virtual world as well.
COVID-19 has hit college and universities particularly hard, but do ‘nonessential’ employees have to suffer?
A scholar of multicultural education says the COVID-19 pandemic gives parents of color the chance to choose what their children learn at home.
This real-time snapshot of the digital divide illustrates why education experts are concerned that school closures could increase achievement gaps.