This challenging time provides an opportunity for students to work on real-world problems they see every day.

"Busy work" was the way most students and parents might classify K-12 instruction last spring, during the first spate of remote education.

Students also learned more science and social studies when they wrote essays about those subjects, researchers say.

With COVID-19 creating a scenario where "things a year ago that seemed impossible are not," educators and advocates see a system ripe for change.

Svaga elever i högpresterande matematikklasser, i synnerhet pojkar, känner mer skam jämfört med elever som går i lågpresterande matematikklasser. De starkare eleverna känner sig i sin tur mer uttråkade och njuter mindre av matematiken i högpresterande matematikklasser, visar en ny studie.

Teaching students to read has always been a challenge, but educators say teaching the skill remotely presents additional obstacles. Matt Cooper Borkenhagen, a language researcher and graduate student in psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says reading is an "intrinsically complex" skill, cautioning that even the best strategies often rely on in-person learning,…

University of Washington professor Steven Brunton's uses a flipped classroom concept for remote learning, which he began using for applied mathematics. With the help of YouTube, a clear lightboard and neon markers Brunton has students watch lectures for homework and uses class time to go over problems and questions.

Experienced and new teachers shared what they learned in the spring about how to make mentoring work during the pandemic.

Reports of child abuse declined between 30% and 70% nationally during the coronavirus pandemic when more students were learning remotely. In this interview, Bart Klika, chief research and strategy officer at Prevent Child Abuse America, offers strategies to help educators identify and prevent potential neglect or abuse.

Studies in the Baltic state moved seamlessly online thanks to its early adoption of education technology.

Initially geared to help educators, the free program was designed to help everyone from parents, grandparents, clergy of all faiths, youth-group leaders and the general public seeking a way to begin to understand what really happened.

Examining the human impact of climate change through fiction and nonfiction texts allows students to connect climate science to the human cost of climate change, develop empathy for communities impacted by climate change, and discover more about climate justice, writes ELA teacher Kasey Short.