Auburn, NY – Can you visit a friend or relative in another state for an extended period while your kids keep up with their classes and school work online? One Central New York school district says no, at least not in the case of Jeffrey Emmette. The single father of […]
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Sean CoughlanEducation correspondent image copyrightPeter Byrne Getting university students home for the Christmas holidays has become a political priority – and the plans to make it possible are getting more complicated by the day. There are proposals for a mass testing programme for students and for stopping any in-person teaching […]
Riverside Transit Agency buses in Temecula will park and provide Wi-Fi hotspots for students in need of internet connection for distance learning. Valley News/Shane Gibson photo Emily Schwank Intern Internet connection will be brought to parks in Temecula and expanded through the valley in October, thanks to the city of […]
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– Some students learning online at Lansing Catholic High School are concerned about coming back in person to class after the school has asked students to come back in person if they can. Lansing Catholic students anonymously wrote a letter expressing that the school is not being transparent, […]
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Most nights, people fight and scream outside the small room where Elizabeth Maldonado and her four children sleep—or try to, at least—at a homeless shelter in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. Maldonado’s 15-year-old daughter, in particular, fears that if […]
As Bird Rock Elementary School prepares to welcome a “very small” number of students to in-person learning Oct. 13 as part of the San Diego Unified School District’s first phase for reopening its campuses from coronavirus-related closures, it faces a “heartbreaking” reduction of more than 7 percent in its student […]
Enrollment in nearly all of Whatcom County’s seven public school districts have dropped, some sharply, likely because of COVID-19 and the uncertainty caused by the pandemic, according to new figures and a news release from the state on Wednesday, Oct. 7. Hundreds of Whatcom families didn’t enroll students in public […]
Many Penn State students have been waiting to take a trip back to the gym as a part of their daily routine for the fall semester — and now they have the chance. The Intramural Building reopened to students on Sept. 25. The White Building and the Hepper Fitness Center […]
QUECHEE — Jenny Engelman likes her condo at Quechee Lakes. The Dartmouth College psychology major from New York City moved into the four-bedroom rental unit on Sept. 10 with three of her fellow students on a short-term lease over the first term of her senior year. Although Engelman is taking […]
NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) – With students in New Haven continuing their online education for another month, New Haven is setting up sites where they can not only get their work done, but have some supervision during the day. These sites are being called Community Learning Hubs. They will be […]
As schools in the U.S. resume this fall mostly online, they are considering how to manage something they used to be able to do more easily: figure out who is missing. Propelled by concerns about students falling behind, some districts used the summer to figure out how to better engage […]
Instead of spring fever, fests and flings, March unceremoniously treated college students to a swift one-way ticket back home. My freshman arrived at our local airport COVID-free, but tearful and disappointed beyond consolation. This global pandemic affected everyone and everything we knew, and the daily tally of lost lives broke […]
When you were dreaming about being in college, attending via Zoom was probably not what you had in mind. I know it must be frustrating, but the current state of affairs will come to an end at some point. In the meantime, you can make the best of your extended […]
BEVERLY, MA — Amanda Desmond remembers how trying it could be even in more familiar times. The Beverly High alumna recalls sitting down following a long day of school, attempting to work her way through her nightly assignments, when mom and dad would try to help. “I have (post-traumatic stress) […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — On a quiet road in India’s capital, tucked away on a wide, red-bricked sidewalk, kids set adrift by the country’s COVID-19 lockdown are being tutored. The children, ages 4 to 14, carry book bags more than 2 kilometers (a mile) from their thatched-roof huts on the […]
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) – Travel restrictions and a shift to online learning has dramatically cut the number of international students expected to attend Canadian universities and colleges this fall, and the decline will ripple through Canada’s labor market. New study permits for foreign students issued by Canada fell […]
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(Bloomberg Opinion) — Since 2016, the U.S. has been seeing declines in the number of new foreign students coming to study at colleges and universities here. Likely culprits include currency fluctuations, stronger competition from other English-speaking countries, big cutbacks to Saudi Arabia’s once-huge study-abroad program and, yes, the foreigner-unfriendly policies […]
Students prepare to start university amid coronavirus: iStock Many students applied to university before coronavirus and social distancing had entered the UK’s day-to-day vocabulary. Now, they are preparing to start courses as universities adapt to become as safe as possible during the Covid-19 pandemic. “It’s definitely not how I imagined […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Chase Gaines wishes he could get more young people in North Carolina to answer their front doors and take his GOP flyer. Rick Hart longs for the days where he would wake up at 6 a.m. to prep for a day of campaigning in the streets […]