When the state issued its stay-at-home order in March, Gina LaMonica, 39, a partner with Chicago law firm Perkins Coie, had just returned from a work trip. Overnight, the COVID-19 pandemic turned her Park Ridge home into an office and a school as she and her husband juggled their careers […]
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(CNN) — The internet is filled to the brim with learning opportunities for those who want to learn on their own time. Some online learning, or e-learning, services focus on traditional mediums like science, math and coding. Others are an open space for both common and niche interests. Here, […]
Three young adults from Wyoming are getting set to go on a road trip of a lifetime, touring the state in a large green RV to learn about career opportunities – and their own futures. This April, they are participating in a three-week adventure with Roadtrip Nation, an organization that […]
WILMINGTON — Passim, a music community support group from Cambridge, recently awarded over $40,000 to 24 musicians through its Iguana Music Fund. Rockabye Beats, a music school started in Wilmington, was among those selected. Rockabye Beats is owned by former Wilmington resident Marcos Valles and his business partner Shon Gordon. […]
Grace Barbic | Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Education Association, one of the largest teacher unions in the state, on Tuesday released its third annual state of education report examining attitudes towards public education in Illinois. The poll, conducted by Normington Petts and Next Generation Strategies, surveyed 1,000 […]
Let’s quit dancing around the issue of whether some students should be in school, in-person, all summer to make up for what they have lost during this pandemic-damaged school year. Of course they should. It’s the least we can do, and almost certainly insufficient to the challenges we face. But […]
Hours of Zoom classes, log-in issues, camera-shy students, internet connection failures, day care costs, Chromebook requests, classroom management — and the list goes on when it comes to the challenges of remote learning. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has come at a cost, in various ways, to districts and […]
This is a feature about David Montague, the 54-year-old director of online learning and faculty mentoring at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he is also a professor of criminal justice. When he was just 23, he lectured at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. He was an […]
BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. – Bedford Public Library System and Bedford 4-H are teaming up to create hands-on learning opportunities for kids. This month, Bedford 4-H is teaching a STEM science water education series that explores flooding, pollution, irrigation, water conservation and the different ways we use water. The four-part series […]
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Kansas programs that aim to help school-aged kids while undergoing remote learning can now apply for extensions in the Remote Learning Grant program. Governor Laura Kelly says programs that got funding for remote learning are now eligible to apply for extensions to support online education through […]
Mystic — At R.A. Georgetti & Co., where they have been selling collectibles, fine gifts and jewelry since 1975, they had never made a sales pitch on a park bench outdoors. But like so much else, the pandemic changed the way they do business. When Connecticut’s governor forced retail venues to […]
Michael A. McShane and Jason Bedrick, Opinion contributors Published 6:01 a.m. ET Feb. 12, 2021 CLOSE Across the country, students are struggling to focus and retain information with online learning, and many feel they are learning less than past years. USA TODAY While many other cities around the country seemed […]
The Sanneh Foundation no longer runs drills across the Conway Recreation Center’s gymnasium floor, though it may not be long before the soccer balls return to the East Side community hub. Instead, with most public schools closed for distance learning, the foundation embraced a two-fold mission, converting the St. Paul […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The Richmond County School System says about 60 percent of students chose in-person learning this semester, up from 40 percent last semester. But because of COVID-19 numbers in the county, the district is having everyone start the semester virtually. “Richmond County has really done a good […]
Make the most of 2021 by learning something new. From how to strum a ukulele and incorporating nature into your writing to the history of jazz in New York City and taking on a virtual 5K, the Greeley Tribune has uncovered a variety of fun events and programs for the […]
The Editorial Boards – USA Today Florida Network | The Gainesville Sun The damage caused by COVID-19 can be seen every day in rising numbers of deaths and hospitalizations, but some of the harm caused by the pandemic is more insidious. K-12 students had their schooling disrupted in the spring […]
COVID-19 in Canada For more on today’s top stories and the spread of the novel coronavirus across the country, please refer to our live updates below throughout the day, as well as our COVID-19 news hub. The Ontario government has announced a province-wide shutdown, which will begin at 12:01 a.m. […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As a boy growing up in Kingsley, Adam Zellmer remembers winter school cancellations as carefree days filled with sledding, snowball fights and snow forts. Now, as superintendent of South Hardin Community Schools, Zellmer starts inclement winter mornings by driving the roads of Hardin County at […]
Caregivers at the Sacramento Children’s Home on Sutterville Road in Sacramento have been scrambling in recent weeks to make sure that 20 foster boys in their residential program have enough time on computers and tablets to participate in online schooling and enjoy leisure time. “Usually the boys would attend local […]
Caregivers at the Sacramento Children’s Home on Sutterville Road in Sacramento have been scrambling in recent weeks to make sure that 20 foster boys in their residential program have enough time on computers and tablets to participate in online schooling and enjoy leisure time. “Usually the boys would attend local […]
“We haven’t forgotten that they’re human,” he said. In this year that has upended so many school traditions, Westport students are far from the only ones who are losing their beloved snow days. Brookline, Cambridge, Lawrence, Lynn, Medford, Milton, Newton, and Quincy — some of the many districts that plan […]
The transition will last through Winter break, and in-person students will return to their buildings on January 5, 2021. KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — What has it been like to have a kid learning from home? We asked a set of Knox County Parents with students from elementary to high school […]