Education

This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. For the last few years, each “back to school” has been radically different. September 2019 was the last return to school before Covid-19 arrived and sent students home, teachers scrambling and classes fully online. … Read more

This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. Dylan Smith went to high school just two miles from Adrian College but wasn’t interested in applying to the Michigan liberal arts school of just over 1,600 undergraduates. As much as he liked the … Read more

This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. HARTFORD, Conn. — This spring, Dr. Michael D. Fox elementary school opened a pantry for its students and families. It has fridges packed with prepared food, cupboards filled with canned goods, cabinets of neatly … Read more

This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. While scrolling through Instagram, Joi Mitchell saw an ad for Saga Education, a nonprofit that provides high-impact tutoring in schools, and clicked on it. “I was running away from teaching because my whole family … Read more

This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. Last year, Leticia Guerrero-Castaneda’s 11-year-old son, Isaiah, was struggling. He was in the fifth grade when the pandemic shutdown occurred, and his reaction was to shut himself down; he became pathologically afraid of germs … Read more

This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. Bridging Digital Distances By Javeria Salman Ayush Agarwal loves speech and debate. When the pandemic forced debate tournaments online during his sophomore year in high school in San Jose, Calif., he realized what it … Read more