The COVID-19 pandemic may have thrust online education and distance learning into the spotlight in 2020, but it's not new. In fact, 1 in 5 public schools already offered courses entirely online during ...

Michelle Thompson can imagine her kindergarten students gathered around the tables that used to fill her classroom, building tiny houses from popsicle sticks, pieces of straw and toy cubes. She can ...

That was the one overriding guideline handed down to teachers in Leanne Edwards’ Texas district in spring 2020. “The only real requirements were that teachers had to post our assignments in Canvas ...

Log on to the website for the online tutoring company VIPKid, and a pop-up will appear asking visitors to select which part of the world they’re in. Users can scroll through more than 230 “regions” ...

A study published by Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, and The Washington Post’s interpretation of it, shows the dangers of trying to analyze change, in this case, the transition from ...

SEATTLE — Beth Anderson, a mother of two, suddenly found herself back in middle school music class this fall. When school started, her sixth-grade daughter Catelyn sat by her side while they learned ...

This article is part of the collection: What’s the Plan? How K-12 School Districts Are Preparing to Resume and Reopen. When leaders at Megan Claffey’s Colorado district decided to give parents a ...

Every weekday morning, Paul Yenne sets up five different devices — including two laptops, an iPhone and a screen-caster that projects videos to a large screen — to get ready for the 19 fifth-grade ...

At a charter school in a poor area of Washington, some teachers spend one day a week going door to door, tracking down students who aren’t logging on, and whose education is suffering. By Abby ...