remote learning

A D.C. chemistry teacher transformed his kitchen into a classroom to teach and inspire his students from home. Jonte Lee from Calvin Coolidge High School walked LX News host Tabitha Lipkin through some experiments while discussing the importance of representing Black teachers and the hearing impaired community through his popular classes on social media.

The third marking period starts next week, and Broward County Public Schools has a message for parents: if at all possible, send your kids back to the schoolhouse.

Broward Schools Superintendent made his message clear that he wants teachers and students back in classrooms. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports

Americans fled big cities in droves to escape the coronavirus pandemic — and many of them are staying, permanently or indefinitely.

After months of remote learning in many parts of the country, new research is revealing how Black, Hispanic, and low-income students are disproportionately falling behind. Washington Post reporter Laura Meckler breaks down some of the reasons why remote learning is failing so many of our kids and the effects of long-standing equity gaps.

After months of school disruptions and remote teaching due to COVID-19, researchers are starting to see some of the impact on learning. Megan Kuhfeld, a senior research scientist with the nonprofit NWEA, joined LX News to explain a study that found that the pandemic has led to many students falling behind in math specifically.

For many months, we’ve been hearing our local school superintendents and national educational leaders saying the pandemic would lead to learning losses among students.  Now it’s happening. Thousands of kids are falling through the academic cracks. About 1,700 students in Miami-Dade and nearly 800 in Broward are considered missing by the public school districts. These are kids who have...

The school districts anticipated it, and now it’s happening: the pandemic is causing thousands of students to fall through the academic cracks. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports

A new policy requiring Broward County Public Schools students to keep their cameras on during virtual learning is getting pushback from thousands of students in the district.

As Boston Public School districts pivot to remote learning, we’re following one family on their back-to-school journey during an unprecedented year.

For parents of children with disabilities, in-person school during COVID-19 has been a top priority. For these students and families, school is more than a classroom: It’s a place for one-on-one therapies and important socialization.

As remote schooling swept the nation, parents realized that many kids lacked desks at home

Charges have been filed in the case of a high school party in Sudbury, Massachusetts, that led to the local school district moving to remote learning for the start of the year, police said Monday.

The teachers of Broward County Public Schools have been training. In fact, it’s been going on for weeks, with the single objective of making the e-learning experience better on both sides of the computer screen, for teachers and especially for students.

The first day of school Wednesday for Broward County Public Schools was an all-virtual, all-online experience.

On Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced all undergraduate in-person classes will shift to remote learning after four student housing units reported coronavirus outbreaks. Noah Monroe is a current freshman at UNC who said his friends are scared of getting sick.

No one was satisfied with the distance learning experience that teachers and students were forced into when schools abruptly closed at the beginning of the pandemic last March. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports on the new training teachers gone through for the fall semester.

With just days away from the start of the school year, psychologists are helping families navigate remote learning. NBC 6 anchor Sheli Muñiz spoke to family psychologist Dr. Julia Harper. SHELI: Students are beginning the school year at home. What kind of strain can this continue to put on families? DR. HARPER: Well, as someone who is dealing with it…

Public schools in South Florida have been locked up for nine weeks, so everyone, including the superintendents of the Miami-Dade and Broward County school districts, wants to know if kids will be physically back in classrooms when the new school year begins in August.

Across the nation, high school students are taking Advanced Placement, or AP exams, this week. This is an annual event administered by the College Board.  But everything is different this year.  In another example of how the pandemic is changing American life, this year the AP exams are being given online, to students at home.  “You can use any...