6 Ways To Help Your Kid Cope With Back-To-School Disappointment

It's time for kids to go back-to-school, but this year will be very different and may lead to children feeling scared, frustrated, or disappointed. Here's how parents can honor their child's feelings — and help them start off strong.

Back to School: Helping Children with Math

Here are some practical tips for caregivers or parents who are trying to help children learn math concepts ranging from counting and place value to fractions.

From tents to bus rides: Social distancing in school reopening plans

Safety measures and logistics will stretch already tight school budgets as districts weigh staggered schedules, outdoor lessons and more as they work on how to handle reopening plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic

A Language Learning Tool Hiding in Plain Sight

Watching foreign language videos with English subtitles to simulate an immersive foreign-language learning experience can be a powerful language learning tool, especially for children stuck at home due to the pandemic

Keeping Kindergartners Engaged in Distance Learning

Is there a secret to keeping kindergarten-aged children engaged in distance learning? Personalizing lessons and giving brain breaks can help young students stay engaged

Virtual Fall: America’s Largest School Districts Are Opting for Remote Starts

For millions of kids, “back to school” will be online, from home as 35 of the nation’s 50 largest school districts are opting to educate students remotely this fall

How to Proactively Prepare for Distance Learning

Parents were caught off guard in the spring as COVID-19 forced schools to close and pushed students into distance learning. The fall has many questions, but here are ways parents and kids can be proactive to prepare for an uncertain school year

What we are learning about Covid-19 and kids

As schools around the world prepare to reopen, new scientific evidence about children and coronavirus is coming to light

What Summer Schools Learned About the Challenges of Reopening

Across the country, forward-looking districts used summer school to anticipate—and try to solve—some of the issues they’d inevitably face when schools reopened.

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