Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
FreshWater Cleveland
Sydney Kornegay
15 September 2021
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Project ACT provides support services to 1,000 Cleveland public school students experiencing homelessness or living with guardians other than their parents. Students are set up with a life skills coach who provides em...
22 August 2021
Garrett County, Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Garrett County students were able to get back in school quickly because the district built trust with its community by providing families with crucial supplies, carefully planning the reopening, and communicating exte...
6 June 2021
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In St. Paul, Minnesota, the St. Paul school district switched from a letter grade structure to a pass/fail system. A trend that was seen across other districts in the states. The move came after the pandemic resulted ...
22 April 2021
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
While community colleges across the country saw a decrease in enrollment during the pandemic, one school, Nashville State, saw a slight increase in the number of Tennesse Reconnect students enrolled. Tenneese Recconne...
The Guardian
Mario Koran
7 April 2021
Lac Courte Oreilles, Wisconsin, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Waadookodaading is an Ojibwe immersion school that meets state and federal academic standards but does so entirely in the indigenous language by connecting children to their cultural heritage. The school goes through ...
28 March 2021
New Jersey, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
When people leave prison, they often gravitate to public libraries as a free place to get computer access and help in looking for work and navigating other aspects of life outside. New Jersey Public Libraries' Fresh S...
16 March 2021
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Research shows tutoring can increase learning. Two years into the pandemic, the exact rates of learning loss due to pandemic learning are still unknown, but its effects have been documented. Researchers, teachers, and...
16 March 2021
Alabama, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
During the coronavirus pandemic, schools in Alabama were asked to provide both in-person and remote options for learning. Two districts segmented their teaching workforce so that teachers either taught remote students...
13 March 2021
Nigeria
Text
1500-3000 Words
To combat high rates of sexual and gender-based violence in Nigeria, the Spotlight Initiative supports several organizations providing counseling and educational services to victims and to women and girls at risk of a...
10 March 2021
Alabama, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Summer Adventures in Learning (SAIL) provides funding for summer programs that mix academic learning and fun enrichment activities. The “COVID slide,” where students fell behind in math, science, and reading, had a gr...
9 March 2021
Port Angeles, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Leaders from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Port Angeles School District had a vision of creating a go-between space for students while school buildings were closed. Within the span of a month, this small community...
8 March 2021
Sacramento, California, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Jesuit High School in Northern California has remained open in full for two months without encountering a single outbreak of Covid-19 amongst school attendants. While it hasn't been inexpensive, the parochial school r...
7 March 2021
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In order to address high rates of student absences, administrators at Shaw High School in East Cleveland had to make an extreme decision—bring all students back to the classroom two days a week amid the pandemic, unle...
4 March 2021
Massachusetts, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In Massachussetts, a two-month long state-run pilot program is allowing some schools to resume in-person classes. Each week, more than 300,000 students are tested through the program. Instead of individual tests, the ...
3 March 2021
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Middle school teachers in San Antonio, Texas, have resorted to home visits and "nudging," meaning they leave notices for parents at the door with information about consequences, at the first sign of students disengagi...
1 March 2021
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
School Without Walls is an offshoot of a summer learning and enrichment program that Ladson-Billings and Jones launched back in June to help 3rd- and 4th-graders confronting pandemic-related learning loss. In a time o...
25 February 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When the coronavirus pandemic shut down school buildings and led to many people working from home in New York City, a city child care program was launched to give children a place to go while they were learning from h...
23 February 2021
United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Universities are breeding grounds for COVID-19. In August and September they had to figure out the best way to test, control, and contain a virus on campus. Across the country universities launched a plethora of metho...
21 February 2021
Berlin, Austria
Text
800-1500 Words
Schools in Austria are teaching schoolchildren how to use noninvasive antigen tests to test themselves for COVID-19, in an attempt to keep schools open and coronavirus spread low. Although some question how reliable t...
21 February 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Catholic schools in Philadelphia that have reopened during the pandemic have been able to avoid in-school community transmission amongst students and staff. Relying heavily on safety precautions, rigid systems and pro...
19 February 2021
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Some California teachers developed lengthy, involved lessons to teach elementary school students about the historic Mars rover landing, in spite of virtual limitations. A teacher in Kumeyaay Elementary in San Diego Co...
18 February 2021
Avlona, Greece
Text
800-1500 Words
When the pandemic shut schools down in Greece, that included the schooling system in place for those in Greece’s Avlona Special Youth Detention Center; so, the director of the school started broadcasting lessons over ...
14 February 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Boston, four organizations that serve Black and Latino families formed an alliance to provide low-cost learning pods to students of color. Run out of two churches, the full-day learning pods “serve nearly two dozen...
10 February 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A Seattle elementary school is providing students with meals and pantry items that are delivered to their doorsteps. In addition to food, 200 Wi-Fi hot spots, books, clothing, help with paperwork in multiple languages...
Burlington Free Press
April Barton
8 February 2021
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
A school district in Atlanta found success in a program designed to keep students involved in remote learning. Henry County School District turned to optional evening school to provide flexibility to parents and K-5 s...
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