Online learning isn't exactly new—its origins go all the way back to the 1960s. Still, the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated its use as students all over the world were forced to transition to remote ...

The nation is bearing the brunt of a week of winter weather, but not every American student has managed to escape class. Snow days, a nostalgic part of youth for many adults, have been chipped away by ...

For most of the week, school districts faced a decision: To move school online or to cancel altogether with snow in the forecast and ice on the roads. Administrators consider the few days built in to ...

Remote learning is—for now—a thing of the past in much of America’s K-12 system. But it’s not likely to stay that way forever. Natural disasters driven by climate change, future outbreaks of COVID or ...

Remote learning became the primary mode of instruction for most K-12 schools during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when many students and staff weren’t able to meet in person. But more than ...

New York City students can forget about snow days. The Department of Education will stick with its remote learning plan when wintry weather hits — despite a series of glitches that befell the system ...

Almost five years after the COVID pandemic introduced K-12 schools and families to “remote learning,” Clark and Champaign County schools say when snow days come around, taking the day off is a better ...

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