Education

The move comes as a surge of coronavirus cases have forced schools in the region to stay virtual or suspend in-person learning.

Students at the Choir School of Delaware return to the stage at Winterthur Museum for their first live performance together since the start of the pandemic.

There are a lot of caveats, though. And it’s possible signs of regression will begin to show up later this year.

As expected, cyber charter schools saw a massive enrollment spike. But that wasn’t the only finding embedded in the new data.

There’s little disagreement that the state needs to determine how much "learning loss" has occurred. The argument is over the best way to collect data.

The scandal “wrongly increased Temple’s enrollment and revenue, deceived consumers, and unfairly harmed competitors," the U.S. Department of Education alleged.

Between the 2008-09 school year and the 2018-19 school year, special education costs grew by $2 billion, while state special education aid grew by only $110 million.

Several of the remote learning sites are located in old buildings without good ventilation.

The pandemic is a major reason, but the number of international students has been falling for years.

Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School students have started a petition demanding an alternate schedule, arguing that long hours in front of screens is unhealthy.

For-profit virtual charter schools have been dogged by complaints of low student performance, fraud and waste. Still, many are seeing a pandemic-induced enrollment surge.

Elsewhere in the region, with case counts surging, schools are going (or staying) all virtual. Quakertown is doing the opposite.

The coronavirus presented huge challenges for the fall semester for U.S. colleges that opened the academic year with in-person learning.

New education commissioner says stay the course, even as parents worry their kids are falling behind.

Instead of making Pilgrim hats, students are hearing what scholars call “hard history” — the more shameful aspects of the past.