With at least 70% of America’s schools closing, perhaps for the school year, districts are trying to figure out online school. It’s not going well.
Author: Erin Richards, USA TODAY
Coronavirus school closings: 20 states, Los Angeles’ LAUSD shut all K-12 schools
Schools in Ohio and Maryland kicked off closures across the U.S. LAUSD, the nation’s second-largest district, joined on Friday.
A $100K cleaning machine? A ‘silver bullet’ disinfectant? Businesses cash in on coronavirus panic at US schools.
Cleaning companies, online colleges and hydration beverages are cashing in on coronavirus. Which products are legit?
New York is in uproar over push to ax gifted programs. This school is doing it anyway
At holiday concerts, one class would be mostly white, followed by a class of mostly black students. Parents at the NYC school ended gifted programs.
Despite Common Core and more testing, reading and math scores haven’t budged in a decade
Reading scores stagnated. Math scores jumped compared with the early ’90s, but haven’t gone up in a decade. What’s happening to America’s students?
These are the best U.S. cities to live in on a teacher’s salary — and the worst
Can you guess the 5 most expensive and 5 least expensive cities to live on a single teacher’s salary?
7 out of 10 wealthy kindergarten students with low test scores were affluent by age 25, study finds
Even among kids with high test scores, blacks and Latinos are less likely to get college degrees and prestigious jobs than white and Asian students.
Why Special Olympics gets federal money: It runs school programs & has presidential ties
Betsy DeVos’ proposed, then restored, cut was a small part of Special Olympics’ budget. But the group’s federal support runs deep, dating back to JFK.