remote learning

A new study from psychologists at UCLA suggests that while sped-up videos did not improve student learning comprehension, they did not put them far behind, either.

Philanthropy, federal relief funding and other community driven efforts to close the digital divide in a year of remote schooling have helped significantly to bring more children online. But many families remain underconnected.

A group of Boston Public School students walked out Friday over COVID safety concerns, calling for a temporary return to remote learning. They also want more COVID-19 safety protocols to be in place.

Scores of Boston Public School students walked out Friday in a call for a temporary return to remote learning and more safety protocols because of COVID safety concerns.

A group of Boston Public School students is planning a walkout Friday over COVID safety concerns, calling for a temporary return to remote learning. They also want more COVID-19 safety protocols to be in place.

As COVID-19 sick calls continue, schools are struggling to stay open during the surge. While some districts are having to temporarily close due to not enough staff, one Boston high school student is calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to bring back remote learning as an option.

Harvard University is going remote for the first three weeks of January, the prestigious school said Saturday. The decision was made in light of the rising COVID-19 cases in the Cambridge area and nationally, administrators said in a statement released to the Harvard community. “Please know that we do not take this step lightly. It is prompted by the rapid…

As schools brace for the rapid rise in omicron cases amid delta’s continued onslaught and the onset of flu season, some are closing their doors once again and moving back to online learning ahead of the holiday break.

Students will learn remotely learning at Murdock High School in Winchendon through the holiday break after dozens of students tested positive or were exposed to the coronavirus. Teachers have the day to prepare before classes go remote Thursday. The high school will remain remote until Dec. 23, which marks the start of winter break. The school district made the decision…

Middlebury College is moving to remote instruction to end the fall semester in light of rising COVID numbers on campus, the school announced Thursday. The news comes as the Vermont college reported 34 newly confirmed cases in addition to 15 cases already active. All but one of those cases were in students. The school’s final day of in-person classes was…

The Curley School in Jamaica Plain is going remote for 10 days due to a recent spike in COVID-19 cases.

Complications wrought by the pandemic persist in schools and often fall hardest on those least able to weather them.

A New Hampshire high school has opted to move to fully remote learning after 56 of its 400 or so students contracted COVID-19. The Raymond School Board voted Wednesday to go remote for at least two days and possibly through the end of next week, the Union Leader reported. The board also voted to require masks as the elementary and…

Massachusetts parents from Malden and Roxbury to Worcester and Rehoboth have made the choice to home-school their children this fall rather than send them back into the classroom unvaccinated in the midst of a surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly transmissible delta variant.

The University of Massachusetts system will expand its online education footprint through a new “UMass Global” arm after officially acquiring Brandman University, officials announced Thursday. More than a year after UMass announced it would partner with the California-based university system, Chapman University finalized the transfer of Brandman University, a part of its system, to UMass. The schools will now launch…

A National Jewish Health study analyzed self-reported sleep data from over 5,000 adolescents and found students got more sleep when school was remote.

More than a dozen districts in Massachusetts are exploring the possibility of launching fully virtual schools,

Virtual schools were available before the coronavirus pandemic, but once students and teachers were barred from classrooms, it became the norm. Now, more than a dozen public school districts in Massachusetts are looking into creating schools that are exclusively online. Boston Public Schools has been exploring the possibility of launching a fully virtual school. Officials sent a survey to parents asking what...

With all due respect to all the dads out there… it’s been a really, really (one more time so they can hear me in the back row) … really hellish year to be a mom. As the pandemic forced schools to shutter across the country and introduced us all to the unwelcome concept of remote homeschooling, mothers have largely borne...