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The war in Ukraine affects everyone – including teachers and students, who are meeting the challenges with their people’s famed determination.
Despite signals of increased turnover, the past two years have not experienced mass departures from the teaching profession.
Claims the digital divide has been ‘closed’ don’t include the full picture of internet inequality in the United States.
While China has taken steps to rein in the playing of video games among students during the school week, a U.S. scholar makes the case for why the games should be featured more prominently in school.
‘Behavior vaccines’ – practices meant to improve safety and well-being – have been around for years. An educational psychologist says they are particularly important for schools to adopt now.
Information about the Holocaust may be easy to find online, but the best sites offer artifacts and authentic accounts from people who survived the experience, a Holocaust scholar argues.
Cities are stepping up to provide free Wi-Fi for families in need in order to close the digital divide in education. But will those efforts make a difference where it counts?
This isn’t the first time America’s schoolchildren have studied remotely – and Chicago’s 1937 ‘radio school’ experiment shows how technology can fill the gap during a crisis.
The disruption to K-12 education caused by the coronavirus pandemic may have major academic consequences, especially for low-income children.
While providing access to digital technology is important, it won’t even the digital playing field. If teachers can embrace all students’ digital interests as opportunities for learning, it would help.
New research points to why reopening elementary schools is the safest bet and what else needs to happen for schools to have the best chance of staying open.
One big complication with K-12 distance learning is how hard it is to get children and teens to log in and do their schoolwork. But there are things teachers and families can do to help.
For starters, why not have Hollywood team up with teachers to make education more entertaining?
The stress of having children do distance learning at home during the pandemic is linked to an increase in alcohol consumption among parents, a new survey finds.
Children will probably be OK, especially if their families make sure this elevated level of screen time doesn’t turn into a long-term habit.
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.
A family therapist and childhood development expert encourages parents and others raising kids to focus on the 4 R’s: routines, rules, relationships and rituals.
Encouraging kids to complete their work can be tough for families managing full-time work and family obligations on a tight budget. And that’s true even when schools are operating normally.
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