Education

The shift from in-person to remote learning is giving some teachers unprecedented video access into their students’ homes

The school year in Schenectady, New York, started with a whack of a budget ax.

Students, parents and teachers in Newark waiting for in-person instruction will have to wait a bit longer — until late January, at the earliest. Newark Schools initially said students will undergo remote learning until at least the end of the first marking period — which would have been around early November. That will no longer be the case. Christopher Davis…

In New Jersey the number of positive cases exceeded 1,000 for the third day in a row bringing the positivity rate to 1.13%. The growing numbers come as the state’s largest school district announced it will not bring students back to class in person and will keep remote learning through at least late January. New Jersey reporter Brian Thompson reports...

As the mythology around Christopher Columbus has been corrected, many are pushing to replace Columbus Day with a celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. A cultural strategist and diversity expert, Lauren Wesley Wilson, joined LX News to discuss the importance of recognizing the oppressed rather than celebrating their oppressors.

Do you think your child’s school has gotten the balance of education and safety perfect during this pandemic? Then go ahead and skip voting this year. But if you want to see some changes, and also have a say in who is setting education policy for the rest of this pandemic, then you should consider casting a vote this November....

Parents around the United States are deciding whether to keep their children in public schools as the pandemic extends into a new academic year

Young voters often feel like their votes don’t matter, but the truth is that older voters have figured out for years that by picking their choice politicians, they get to decide how our educational systems are run: from how much teachers get paid to whether schools open amid a pandemic to all the decisions surrounding student loan relief. As...

Ray Villeda showing us what it looks like as a brand new teacher navigates the school system during the pandemic.

Chrissy Teigen has a new fan for life. Special education teacher Lily Parshenov’s Amazon wish list was among those purchased by Teigen as the star wanted to give a helping hand to teachers across the country.

Though the absence of classroom learning due to COVID-19 has affected children at all levels, parents and advocates say those with disabilities are more at risk and more acutely feeling the effects, with remote learning impeding the quality of their federally guaranteed education.

Georgia mom Jana Coombs tapped into the feelings of many parents on social media when she shared a heartbreaking image of her son in tears on his first day of online kindergarten. She joined LX News to discuss her own family’s struggle with online education and the way she has banded together with some other parents to make it better...

With many schools still closed by the coronavirus pandemic, public and private alternatives are sprouting up across the nation to watch over children as they study

New guidance from President Donald Trump’s administration declares teachers to be “critical infrastructure workers.”

NBC New York’s Tracie Strahan reports.

The University of Notre Dame and Michigan State universities have become the latest colleges to move classes online because of the coronavirus

North Carolina’s flagship university is switching all undergraduate classes to remote learning due to the spread of coronavirus during the first week of classes.

Some parents are realizing that after months of the COVID-19 pandemic, distance learning and an abnormal summer, their children are feral. Sometime from mid-morning to mid-afternoon, they emerge from their bedrooms, PJ-clad with tousled hair and a confused look, causing adults to wonder how their children will ever get up for school. But experts say it can be done. “There isn’t necessarily anything inherently wrong...

LX News host Ashley Holt talked to a college student from Illinois, a high school student from Georgia and an eighth grader from Indiana about returning to school in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Many U.S. schools have poor air circulation, which will exacerbate the coronavirus threat when some of them reopen this month