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Maui’s Displaced Students: Hawaii to Reopen Lahaina Schools 2 Months After Fire

Megan Tagami

Many Parents Don’t Know How Kids Are Doing in School: 9 Insights into Pandemic Recovery & Aftermath

John Bailey

How Schools Can Recover Fully: 10 Insights into Pandemic Aftermath in U.S. Education

John Bailey

Slow Literacy Gains, Long COVID in Kids: 7 Insights into Pandemic Recovery and Aftermath in U.S. Schools

John Bailey

Polarization, Learning Loss, Relief Funds: 7 Insights into Pandemic Recovery and Aftermath in U.S. Schools

John Bailey & Laura Fay

COVID Brief: Billions in COVID Aid Stolen or Wasted, AP Investigation Finds

John Bailey

COVID Brief: Pandemic to Blame for Increase in Toddler Speech Delays

John Bailey

COVID Brief: Parents Don’t Know How Far Behind Kids Have Fallen in School

John Bailey

COVID Brief: Data Show How Pandemic Hit Student Attendance, Grades, Advancement

John Bailey

COVID Brief: Ad Campaign Tells Parents Kids Have Fallen Behind in School

John Bailey

COVID Brief: State Lawmakers Spend Federal Cash on Mental Health

John Bailey

‘The Other Long COVID’ Affecting Kids: Missed Opportunities

John Bailey

Learning Woes: Half of America’s Students Started This School Year Behind

John Bailey

The Final 97 Days of the COVID Emergency: What Changes on May 12

John Bailey

COVID Brief: Few Students Use Online Tutoring Programs

John Bailey

COVID Brief: New Data Reveals Rapid Rise of XBB.1.5 Variant

John Bailey

COVID Brief: More Parents Opposed to School Vaccine Mandates

John Bailey

Teen Brains Changed During COVID, Scans Show

John Bailey

COVID Brief: Teachers’ and Teens’ Mental Health Took a Hit During COVID

John Bailey

COVID Brief: Students and Teachers Face Learning Loss as New Year Begins

John Bailey

Schools Briefing: 20 Years of Student Growth Wiped Out by COVID

John Bailey

Many Remote Learning Options Shutting Down as School Reopens for Fall 2022

Cara Pangelinan & Bree Dusseault

Schools & COVID Policy: Modified Boosters Likely Available for Teens Next Month

John Bailey

Tracking Schools’ Pandemic Recovery Funds: Mental Health, Tutoring & More

Joshua Parrish

CDC’s New School Guidance Scraps Quarantines, Lifts ‘Test to Stay’ Recommendation

John Bailey

Young Children’s Vaccination Rates May Have Already Peaked

John Bailey

COVID Classroom Recovery: California Has Spent Little to Address Learning Loss

John Bailey

FDA Recommends COVID Vaccines for Young Kids; 3rd Pfizer Dose May Be Key

John Bailey

Many Kids Who Had COVID Don’t Have Antibodies to Protect Against Omicron

John Bailey

Vaccines for Children Under 5 Could Be Available as Soon as This Month

John Bailey

Study: Biting, Hitting & Overwhelmed, Young Kids Scarred Most By COVID Lockdowns

John Bailey

Youth Mental Health: Hundreds of Suicidal Teens in Emergency Rooms Each Night

John Bailey

Parents’ Long Wait Nearly Over? COVID Shot for Young Kids on Pace for Next Month

John Bailey

The Intensifying Mental Health Crisis Facing Teens

John Bailey

Safer Air in Schools: Biden Grants $500 Million to Boosting Filters, Efficiency

John Bailey

COVID’s Missing Students: 48% of Kids in L.A. Are Chronically Absent This Year

John Bailey

AWOL Amid COVID: Half of Teachers Report Students Who Never Showed Last Year

John Bailey

Fresh COVID Warning Signs From Europe as School Absences Triple in 2 Weeks

John Bailey

New CDC Wastewater Data Shows COVID Indicators Rising Across America in March

John Bailey

Alarming ‘Missed Learning’ Report: COVID Delayed Progress for All Grades in NC

John Bailey

Are Vaccines Offering Poorer Protection for Younger Children? Pandemic policy up

John Bailey

COVID & Kids—Study Says Children More Likely to Get Infected at Home Than School

John Bailey

Encouraging New Data on Children and ‘Long COVID’

John Bailey

COVID’s Next Culture War — Vaccinations for Young Kids?

John Bailey

The Week in COVID & Education Policy: New Study Finds School COVID Transmission Is Rare, Pfizer Applies for Approval for Young Kids’ Shot and More Key Updates

John Bailey

What America’s Schools Have Failed to Learn from Reopened Classrooms Overseas

John Bailey

COVID Briefing: How COVID is Affecting Kids’ Brains

John Bailey

Rethinking Omicron School Safety Strategy: Time to ‘Manage Not Contain’?

John Bailey

COVID’s Missing Students: More Kids Dropping Out of Top School Districts

John Bailey

Averting a Youth Mental Health Crisis: 6 Key Strategies From the Surgeon General

John Bailey

COVID Cost-Benefit: School Study Says Benefits of In-Person Class Outweigh Risks

John Bailey

COVID Easing Among Kids? Hospitalization Rates Fall By Over Half Since August

John Bailey

No More Masks at Schools? How Child Vaccines Could Change Safety Conversation

John Bailey

Will FDA Turmoil Delay COVID Vaccines for Kids?

John Bailey

45% of parents don’t plan to get young kids vaccinated, even after FDA approval

John Bailey

Averting Student Quarantines: New COVID Testing Model Aims to Keep Kids in Class

John Bailey

Children & Long COVID? Study shows 1 in 10 Kids Endure Lingering Symptoms

John Bailey

The Fatal Flaws of Conservatives Championing the ‘Recklessly Unmasked’

Conor P. Williams

L.A. District Passes Student Vaccine Mandate As Biden Pushes More COVID Testing

Linda Jacobson

Will NYC Parents Strike Over Remote Learning?

Alina Adams

Mask Mandates, Vaccine Mandates & Collective Bargaining

Mike Antonucci

Watch: Ed Leaders Describe Reopening As Delta, Mask Fights Heat Up

The 74

'Horrific': School Leaders Describe Reopening Amid Fights Over Masks, Delta

The 74

Live at 1 pm ET: Education Leaders, Experts on How to Reopen Schools Safely

The 74

Back to School — After 18 Months of COVID: Before Kids Can Learn They Must Heal

Conor P. Williams

Biden Threatens Ed Dept. ‘Enforcement Actions’ Against States Restricting Masks

Linda Jacobson

COVID Testing Could Help Schools Stay Open Safely & More Key Education Updates

John Bailey

‘No way to win’: School Leaders Face Unsettling Year of Public Outrage

Linda Jacobson

12 Big Challenges From Last School Year That Could Now Define the Fall of 2021

Steve Snyder

Senate Leaders Want Answers on CDC-Union Interaction

Linda Jacobson

Just In: NYC Declares No More Remote Learning for America’s Top School District

Steve Snyder

COVID School News: Summer School Boosts Math Skills, Beware Indoor Sports & More

John Bailey

Fewer Black Students are Learning Remotely, But Many are Absent

Linda Jacobson

Court Documents Reveal How L.A. Teachers Union Gained Upper Hand in Pandemic Negotiations, Limiting Instruction Time

Linda Jacobson

The Week In School Reopenings: 6 Key Updates On Students’ Return To Classrooms

Asher Lehrer-Small

The Week in COVID & Education Policy: 18 Key Updates on Schools, Students and the Fine Print on Who Is (and Isn’t) Learning in Person Right Now

John Bailey

Reticent Families in NYC, LA Could Prove True Test For School Reopenings, Even As Gallup Poll Reveals Overwhelming Parent Support Nationwide

Asher Lehrer-Small