If schools are to have any hope of catching kids up from COVID absences, they’ll need to know who missed the most school during the pandemic–and why.
Author: Alia Wong, USA TODAY
Parents desperately need child care. But day cares are struggling to retain workers.
Half of the day care workers who left early in the COVID pandemic have yet to return to their child care jobs, due to low pay or fear of health risks.
Teaching kids to hate America? Republicans want ‘critical race theory’ out of schools
A look at the recent spate of Republican-driven legislation seeking to stamp critical race theory out of schools
Students crushed by stress, depression are back in class. Here’s how schools are meeting their needs
The mental-health challenges won’t magically disappear once students trickle back into school buildings
As millions of kids skip kindergarten, the learning gap widens — and schools may lose funding
With parents desperate for alternatives to distance learning, kindergarten enrollment has plummeted in districts across the country.
COVID-19 has devastated Hawaii’s lei industry; now generations-old shops are clawing back
Tourism and celebrations are the linchpins of Hawaii’s lei culture. A combination of innovation and the “aloha spirit” is helping vendors get by.
Despite COVID-19, standardized testing may force English learners back to school campuses
Advocates are calling on states to delay or cancel in-person proficiency tests for schoolchildren who are still learning English amid the pandemic.
COVID means more kids won’t be ready for kindergarten. America’s preschoolers are falling behind.
COVID is closing day cares, increasing the cost of preschools and keeping children at home during arguably their most formative years.