Australian border closures blamed for $2.7bn ELICOS related loss
English Australia’s Economic Impact research – prepared by Bonard – found that border closures resulted in a $1.2bn loss for the English language teaching sector in...
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Survey: High school principals report whole-child focus during spring closures
Dive Brief: A survey of 344 high school principals from the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) at the University...
Will fall bring more campus closures as coronavirus cases climb?
Dive Brief: The coronavirus has followed students back to campus, with several colleges that reopened their grounds reporting case counts...
Schools shifted chronic absenteeism strategies amid closures
Dive Brief: According to the U.S. Department of Education, 16% of all students, or more than 7 million, were chronically...
The Deep South was left particularly disadvantaged by coronavirus closures
Dive Brief: Students in the rural Deep South were particularly hit hard by the coronavirus' impacts on learning, according to The Hechinger...
Parents opting to home-school beyond closures add to school finance concerns
Kristen Smith’s 10-year-old son is a self-motivated student who loves to learn. And while Smith has been told multiple times...
Homework gap a growing focus for nonprofits, lawmakers as closures persist
Dive Brief: After declaring success in the goal of connecting most schools to fast, reliable internet, nonprofit EducationSuperHighway is turning...
Q&A: Dallas’ Hinojosa says districts can’t be ‘wishy-washy’ on closures, reopening
Dallas Independent School District was just recovering from a tornado when Michael Hinojosa saw the news. In his 25 years...
School closures changing districts’ methods, terms for bargaining with unions
With distance learning possibly extending into fall, teacher contracts settled or being negotiated prior to school closures due to the...
Many districts still lack consistent plans months into closures
Dive Brief: A Center on Reinventing Public Education project tracking 82 school districts nationwide shows 33% still lack consistent expectations...
