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Closing schools is a civil rights problem – federal funding should be at stake
We are quickly approaching the one-year mark since Governor Wolf first closed schools back on March 13, 2020. Depending on where you live in the

Pandemic Teacher Shortages Imperil In-Person Schooling
The nation’s schools need thousands of more teachers, full-time and substitute, to keep classrooms open during coronavirus outbreaks. As exposure to the coronavirus forced thousands

A lost generation’: Surge of research reveals students sliding backward, most vulnerable worst affected
After the U.S. education system fractured into Zoom screens last spring, experts feared millions of children would fall behind. Hard evidence now shows they were

Students At This Aurora School Are Learning To Teach Themselves New Skills
Spending most of 2020 attending school virtually, students at a small charter school in Aurora are enjoying a new kind of class where everyone chooses

Virtual Instruction Isn’t Getting High Marks From Parents, But Many Still Prefer It
Parents whose children are learning in person full time are the most pleased with the quality of their child’s education. The hybrid on/off approach, meanwhile,

We Consider This A First Victory’: Penn Professors See University Gift As An Important Step For Funding Philadelphia Schools
Professor Ann Farnsworth-Alvear hopes a $100 million donation over 10 years from the University of Pennsylvania to the city’s school district will only be the

Surges In Covid Cases Are Upending School Reopening Plans Across The U.s.
Rising COVID cases are derailing plans by school districts across the country to reopen their buildings and pushing some schools that had opened to close

High School Seniors Have Made No Progress In Math Or Reading On Closely Watched Federal Test
American high school seniors’ math scores didn’t improve between 2015 and 2019, while their reading scores fell, according to the latest round of federal test results. The

The Pandemic Is Spotlighting Longstanding Issues With America’s School Buildings
The Government Accountability Office sounded a dire warning: One in three public school students — some 14 million — was learning in a building in

This School Year Will Be Messy. That’s Ok.
As the school year begins amid an ongoing pandemic and after a summer of racial reckoning, Social and Emotional Learning is going to hold special

How The History Of Race In America Is Taught In Schools
John Oliver takes a look at how the history of race in America is taught in schools, how we can make those teachings more accurate,
