Education

“I was just surprised that people believed in me,” one thankful student said.

Philly distributed over 80,000 laptops in order to move classes online. Today’s data provides an early glimpse at how many students are showing up.

The move is an unexpected side effect of the switch to remote learning.

South Philadelphia High School music director Courtney Powers still wanted her students to have access to their music and instruments after classes were suspended.

As freshmen prepare to adapt, educators and administrators are still in the early stages of "shaping the new normal" of a college education: part two.

Educators begin to come to terms with how the health crisis has utterly altered college life in New Jersey, its finances and its outlook: part one.

The Dept. of Education was still garnishing wages more than a month after Congress ordered an immediate suspension of the practice during the coronavirus pandemic.

With the typical tools, like standardized tests, off the table this year, the Philadelphia School District has to think differently about how to measure success.

With kids’ classrooms replaced by the kitchen table or living room couch, many parents have been reluctantly drafted into a new role: teacher’s assistant.

Overnight, a Philly podcast about entrepreneurialism became a roundtable about the strangest senior year in recent memory.

The partnership with Uplift is due to concerns about the impact of isolation.

The Bullhorn is currently available online, with print editions expected this fall.

Graduation, special ed, summer school — and the all-too-familiar technology gap — are just a few challenges that remain unresolved.

Also Monday, Gov. Phil Murphy said residents passed an “important test” by complying with social distancing rules as parks reopened.

Unions are going to want a say in when it is safe to reopen schools and under what conditions. And Hite also speaks to the issue of grading.