In “The Weekend Interview With Edward Glaeser” (May 28), Tunku Varadarajan touches on a subject close to my professional domain: “the unmitigated disaster that remote learning has been for American ...

Most of the United States saw declines in reading and math achievement on standardized tests between 2019 and 2022. Those declines happened in both fourth- and eighth-grade in a large majority of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American schools and the ways students learn have changed since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago. Educators ...

The past two years of the pandemic have brought an unrelenting stream of disruptions to regular schooling: building closures, quarantines, staff shortages. And study after study has shown that ...

In the spring of 2020, many schools were forced to make a rapid switch to remote learning as districts around the country shut down in-person classrooms. Most districts had to make this switch in one ...

Remote learning can reveal academic difficulties that may be less noticeable in a traditional classroom. A child who once relied on quick ...

Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels and Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaking at a press conference on Winter Storm Fern on Jan. 23, 2026. Brigitte Stelzer “Students were able to log into their virtual class ...