Getting exercise while socially distancing yourself from others can be difficult for kids who depend on recess and sports. These apps and activities can help kids get the movement and balance needed during the extended time spent indoors.

While some schools remaining closed with no distance learning options, teachers find ways to stay in touch with their students through much-appreciated phone calls, video conferences, emails, etc.

Suddenly the children are at home. How do you even start to educate them yourself? Here are expert tips from teachers.

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With 850 million children worldwide shut out of schools, tech evangelists claim now is the time for AI education. But as the technology’s power grows, so too do the dangers that come with it.

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Children who shun screens score lowest, study finds.

Students learning to read music need to work on a skill called audiation, which is akin to subvocalization in literacy, writes Brian Campbell, a middle-school band director. Campbell notes in this blog post that teachers can help struggling readers strengthen their "inner voice" by having them reread passages to focus on inflection and rhythm, start…

High-school students in New Jersey are training to be "meditation mentors" for other students. The students, who participate in an eight-week training program, learn to facilitate meditation groups for fellow peers to help support mental and emotional health.

Within our society's growing culture of "busyness," schools have an important counter role to play. One critical antidote to this epidemic of overload is to reorient reading instruction to cultivate intentionally present, mindful readers. Learn five ways to foster immersive reading through daily classroom practice in Educational Leadership.

How is online learning faring as schools close amid virus outbreak?

For students with mild symptoms of disabilities, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a diagnosis can do more harm than good, according to a study by Jayanti Owens, a Brown University sociologist. Owens' study shows that students without an ADHD diagnosis, who showed similar symptoms, had better behavioral and reading scores from teachers, than their peers diagnosed…