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51 West Point Cadets Caught Cheating Must Repeat a Year
West Point officials say most of the 73 West Point cadets accused in the biggest cheating scandal in decades at the U.S. Military Academy are being required to repeat a year and eight were expelled.
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Burlington High School Goes Remote Due to COVID Outbreak
A high school in Burlington, Massachusetts is moving class online Monday as officials deal with an outbreak of coronavirus cases, according to the district’s superintendent. In an email to families and staff Sunday, Superintendent Eric Conti said the district will switch to remote learning through April 12, citing 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week. At least 130 Burlington…
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Poll: Mixed Views on Mass. Schools' Pandemic Performance
A majority of parents felt their children’s education was compromised during the pandemic due to remote learning, according to a new poll. “Massachusetts residents have not been satisfied with the remote learning Massachusetts schools are providing during the pandemic,” Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios said. “And they place a fair amount of the blame on the shoulders of...
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COVID Cases Force Burlington High Back Online
In an email to families and staff Sunday, Superintendent Eric Conti the district will switch to remote learning through April 12, citing 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week. At least 130 Burlington High School students are now in quarantine.
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Poll: Mixed Views on Schools' Pandemic Performance
A majority of parents felt their children’s education was compromised during the pandemic due to remote learning, according to a new poll from Emerson College.
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Burlington High School Switches to Remote Learning Due to Increase in COVID-19 Cases
Burlington High School in Massachusetts is pivoting to remote learning beginning Monday due to a spike in coronavirus cases, Superintendent Dr. Eric Conti confirmed Sunday. In an email sent to the families and staff, Conti said the switch to remote learning will last through the week of April 12. Conti cited 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week impacting…
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Number of COVID Cases Up Slightly in Mass. Schools. What It Means.
As more kids return to classrooms in Massachusetts, the number of cases in school is on the rise, albeit slightly. Should we be concerned?
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Ransomware Attack Forces Haverhill School to Close
School today will be considered a snow day as they hope to resume classes tomorrow.
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‘McClassroom,' Where Vt. Student Accesses WiFi, Highlights Broadband Gap
A massive infusion of federal money through the American Rescue Plan has advocates, politicians, and community members across Vermont more confident than ever that infrastructure investments will allow for the completion of a long-discussed goal to make sure everyone in the state can access broadband. The administration of Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, proposed spending just over $250 million in American…
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Vermont Student Access to WiFi Highlights Broadband Gap
A high schooler in Barre, Vermont says her home internet service is so bad, she must go to a McDonald’s parking lot in order to do her remote learning.
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Parenting Tips for Remote Learning
Cynthia Kriegman of Positive Parenting Boston gives tips on how to help your children get off to a good start to the school year through remote learning.
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Swampscott High School Goes Remote Amid ‘Largest Outbreak' to Date
Swampscott High School is going fully remote for the next two weeks in what district officials are calling the “largest outbreak of COVID cases,” the Massachusetts town has seen throughout the entire pandemic. About 100 high school students and parents have either tested positive for COVID-19 or were in close contact with somebody who did, according to town officials. “These…
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As CDC Relaxes School Rules, Mass. Student Petitions to Keep Remote Learning
As the CDC relaxed its guidelines for distance for mask-wearing kids in schools, some in Massachusetts are pushing to keep school remote.
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Parent Sentiment Tilting Toward Return to Classroom Learning, Survey Says
Parent sentiment is starting to tilt in the direction of a return to classroom learning due to the difficulty of balancing between their child’s academics and their own work and child care demands, according to a new survey of Massachusetts parents. Parents also remain concerned about academic losses over the last school year, according to the survey by the...
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Massachusetts School Board Approves Confederate Flag Ban
A Massachusetts city has banned the Confederate flag in its public schools in response to reports from middle school students who said they felt unsafe after seeing classmates display or wear the flag during remote classes. The 10-member Northampton School Committee on Thursday night unanimously approved of the ban on displays of the flag by students, staff and visitors on…
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Lost Learning: With Students Returning to Class, Some Will Be Further Behind Their Classmates
We take a closer look at how remote learning has disproportionately affected communities of color, how some states and cities have tried to help bridge the digital divide and the struggles students have faced over the past year.
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A Remote Learning Report Card, One Year Later
By Jalyn Henderson. Most families around the country are now marking one full year of disrupted education and either partial or complete online learning. NBCLX storyteller Jalyn Henderson talked to students about how the year has impacted them — and to experts about what needs to be done to help children around the country make up the ground they lost.
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‘Nobody Had It Easy': Reflecting on 1 Year of Remote Learning
One year ago, we were really just beginning to learn about the new coronavirus, watching it spread first in China and then making its way to the United States. “I remember being like, this isn’t happening,” said mom of four Meghan Anzalone. Arlington parent Akarshe Ramani said, “We just thought this was something that would stay for a few...
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Students, Teachers, Parents Reflect on 1 Year of Remote Learning
One year ago, we were really just beginning to learn about the new coronavirus, watching it spread first in China and then making its way to the United States. “I remember being like, this isn’t happening,” said mom of four Meghan Anzalone. Arlington parent Akarshe Ramani said, “We just thought this was something that would stay for a few...
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Remote Learning in Mass., One Year Later
A year after Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency with the arrival of COVID-19, we looked at the way remote learning took hold with what many thought would be just a few weeks out of classrooms.