LEF4 days ago1 minUniversity students create online resource for families to create art projects at homeFrom the University of Michigan. During the fall semester, University of Michigan students in Melanie Manos’ Detroit Connections: In the...
LEFApr 61 minHow the pandemic is shaking up college admissions and testingFROM PBS. With many college admissions testing sites closing down during the pandemic, as many as 50 percent of early applications...
LEFMar 301 minWhat Makes a Good Preschool EducationFrom The Atlantic. Rebecca Palacios on the importance of including parents in their children’s earliest schooling. When I visited...
LEFMar 231 minIn Rural America, Fears About The Future Abound As Fewer Students Go To CollegeFROM NPR. A yellow school bus with snow on the roof chugs up to the front door of Bucksport High School in Maine, where Principal Josh...
LEFMar 91 minCOVID-19 Slide Impact on StudentsFROM PBS NEWS HOUR. The questions around when to reopen more schools for in person classes remains front and center for millions of...
LEFMar 21 minKids Are Anxious And Scared During The Pandemic. Here's How Parents Can HelpFROM NPR. For the kids in our lives, the last nine months have been many things. Scary — because an invisible, unknown illness was...
LEFFeb 231 minCheating in Online School? Some Students and Parents Say It’s OKBY JULIE JARGON, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. With high-school students across the country fresh off exams, many teachers will be eyeing...
LEFFeb 181 minHow to Motivate Teens Struggling With Remote SchoolBY JULIE JARGON, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. We’re nine months into the pandemic and remote school is wearing on students. Boys, who are at...
LEFFeb 161 minWhy Boys Are More at Risk of Falling Behind During Remote SchoolFROM JULIE JARGON, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Remote school has exposed a number of inequities in education, from rural residents who don’t...
LEFFeb 91 minHow to Teach American History in a Divided CountryFROM THE ATLANTIC. For the past 26 years, Chuck Yarborough, the U.S. and African American history teacher at the Mississippi School of...
LEFFeb 51 minNPR's Student Podcast Challenge Opens For Middle And High School StudentsFROM NPR. It's that time of year! New semester, new assignments, new Student Podcast Challenge. Yep, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge is...
LEFFeb 21 minScreenagers: The PodcastAre you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney...
LEFJan 281 minParenting Resolutions for the New YearThe start of a new year is a great time to think about strategies to up our parenting game, strengthening relationships with our...
LEFJan 261 minAvoid Cabin Fever With These 125 IdeasFROM PARADE MAGAZINE: As the coronavirus pandemic continues, many people are finding themselves wondering how to keep kids busy and...
LEFJan 211 minCapitol Riot Becomes Civics Lessons in SchoolsFROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. At the start of class, Logan Ridenour reminded the high school juniors of the ground rules for discussing...
LEFJan 191 minTHE MOVEMENT TO MODERNIZE MATH CLASSBY YOREE KOH, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. ‘Freakonomics’ co-author Steven Levitt and other reformers are pushing for more equitable...
LEFJan 121 minWhy Are We Closing Schools?BY Nina Schwalbe, THE ATLANTIC. Keeping kids out of the classroom will make recovering from the pandemic harder in the long term, while...
LEFJan 51 minBots Grade Your Kids’ Schoolwork—and They’re Often WrongAuto-grading software often marks answers incorrect when they are right, giving teachers and families more remote-school headaches By...
LEFDec 18, 20203 minHow to Help Kids Handle Holiday Disappointment During COVID-19By: Amy Adolfo Signore, PhD, MPH and Emily Wakefield, PsyD, Connecticut Childrens Hospital. This year has been difficult to say the...
