Playtime at school: ‘Don’t neglect recess’, says Michigan coalition
Reading, writing, and ’rithmetic are important, but one group of educators and business leaders in Michigan, USA, wants to make sure schools don’t forget about a fourth R: recess.Read more
USA: Schools are using COVID relief for building upgrades that will take years
School districts across the U.S. are renovating their buildings and upgrading dilapidated ventilation systems with the help of $190 billion US dollars of federal COVID relief. But these improvements will take time, and some won’t...Read more
Three Chicago teens, one pandemic year: How COVID-19 widened education gaps for boys of colour
As the promise of spring hung over Chicago, three teenage boys tussled with insomnia, sifting through the fallout of a pandemic year’s interlocking crises. Read more
Learning pods are now helping vulnerable students. Will the trend survive the pandemic?
Like many New York City charter schools, Brooklyn’s Ascend network started off the year fully remote. But just a few months in, it became clear: Remote learning wasn’t working for certain students. Read more
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, school as we know it has been transformed
A teacher in Newark trudges through the snow to find students who haven’t logged into her all-remote class, a sad ritual of tracking down teens that began for her last March. A student in Indiana...Read moreDuring remote learning, parents became my co-teachers. Now I want to keep that partnership going.
The cloud of the global pandemic has left everyone scratching around for silver linings. But they are there if you take the time to look – just ask teacher Christina Armas.Read more
In her own words – how this Chicago student is balancing school, caregiving and coronavirus
When school buildings first began closing in March, we started talking with a high school junior in Chicago named Sarah Alli-Brown about how the coronavirus pandemic had affected her education and her life.Read more
The pandemic hasn’t stopped Newark school workers from giving fresh veggies to families
On any given Friday before the pandemic, families across the US city of Newark would flock to their local school to fetch fresh vegetables.Read more
This New York City teacher wants her students to know she’s struggling, too
Nestled on her couch, Karin Burrell-Stinson fills her long workdays in her small Manhattan studio apartment videoconferencing with her classes, checking in with individual students, and providing feedback on their work. But, she says, a...Read more