New York Schools Cancel Classes Ahead of Solar Eclipse for ‘Safety Hazards’
Several New York school districts will be letting students out early or stay home altogether on Monday due to the upcoming solar eclipse.
Several New York school districts will be letting students out early or stay home altogether on Monday due to the upcoming solar eclipse.
On Tuesday’s edition of NBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” host Hallie Jackson discussed a new study on the learning loss caused by COVID school closures and acknowledged that politics played a role in school closure policies, but also stated that people
Randi Weingarten blames a worldwide drop in math scores on the COVID-19 pandemic despite fiercely lobbying against in-person learning.
The New York Times editorial board has finally admitted that coronavirus-related school closures “may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education” in a Sunday opinion piece.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” National Education Association President Becky Pringle responded to a question on whether schools stayed closed too long by stating that “we needed to follow the science.” Co-host Willie Geist asked, “So, with the benefit
The far-left PolitiFact, a disgraced site that fabricates fact checks to protect Democrats, was exposed as the liar it is and will always be by a Twitter “Community Note.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten stated that she doesn’t “know if it was right or wrong” for Europe to prioritize opening schools over bars and restaurants and responded to a question on
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Big Money Show,” Illinois State Sen. Willie Preston (D) reacted to a report that 55 Chicago public schools have no students who are proficient in math and reading by stating that “we
Overdose deaths more than doubled between 2019 and 2021 for those aged 10 to 19. Suicide attempts by the young jumped by 40 percent between 2019 and 2021.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” Vice President Kamala Harris stated that President Joe Biden has poor poll numbers because we had the coronavirus pandemic, and among other things, “Children lost very significant gaps in terms of their educational process,
The mainstream news media failed to do it during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, so it fell on actor-comedian Rob Schneider of all people to hold President Joe Biden accountable for his comments about COVID lockdowns.
Up to one in four teenagers who lived through Britain’s on-and-off lockdowns now have mental disorders, data released by the NHS has revealed.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is facing mockery after her audio conveniently cut out during a question about her coronavirus policies.
There must be no so-called “pandemic amnesty” in the wake of draconian lockdowns across the EU, a representative within the bloc’s parliament has said.
Randi Weingarten, president of the powerful American Federation of Teachers (AFT), backed a call by the Atlantic on Monday to declare an “amnesty” for those who pursued mistaken policies on COVID-19 that led, among other things, to harm to children.
Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon spoke with Breitbart News about how Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is “gaslighting” Michigan voters by falsely claiming that Michigan school closures only lasted for three months during the pandemic.
New data shows pandemic-driven school closures caused plummeting reading scores and the largest decline in math scores in history.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” CNN Contributor and Brown University Economics Professor Emily Oster stated that due to the “tremendous failure by adults” in handling schools during the coronavirus pandemic, we will see the impacts of learning loss
On Monday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education Peggy Carr stated that school closures “may have had some contribution” to the drop in test scores
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith,” National Assessment Governing Board member Dr. Marty West reacted to the drop in test scores shown on the National Assessment of Educational Progress by stating that while “states where schools that
Jake Tapper took a beating on social media for suggesting that no “national conversation” happened over school closures.
Babies born during the early months of COVID lockdown in Ireland are less capable of speech and other forms of communication compared to children born before the pandemic.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Times Senior Writer David Leonhardt said that the crisis of the large and unequal learning loss from school closures during the coronavirus pandemic has been undercovered. MSNBC Contributor Mike Barnicle asked, “I would submit
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Times Senior Writer David Leonhardt stated that the issue of learning loss from school closures during the coronavirus pandemic “will be a lifelong problem” for the current generation of children that amounts to “a
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is attempting to deflect blame for promoting school closures that crippled American students’ educations.
On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education Peggy Carr stated that she doesn’t know “if there was a lot of choice” when it
On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education Peggy Carr responded to a question on whether there’s a better way to handle education in
Schmidt pointed a new report which showed how 9-year-olds saw the largest average score decline in reading since 1990.
Protect the Public’s Trust, a government ethics watchdog, is suing the Department of Education in an effort to discover the level of influence teachers’ unions and other special interest groups had on keeping schools closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
The reading ability of fourth-graders in Germany has dramatically dropped since pre-pandemic times, a study has found.
Tuesday marks Election Day in San Francisco for the recall of three school board members by irate parents who are angry at the local school district over the interminable closures of the coronavirus pandemic, which lasted longer than in other cities.
The number of illiterate six- and seven-year-olds in Brazil surged by 66 percent from 2019 to 2021, which is a time period coinciding with prolonged school closures across Brazil due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday.
The Bangladeshi Education Ministry extended an existing closure of its public and private schools this week through February 20 citing concerns about the spread of coronavirus, “raising eyebrows” among some observers as the decision coincided with the federal government’s easing of gathering restrictions for non-essential business events, such as trade fairs thronged by thousands of people, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.
Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona offered his priorities for education which center on equity and inclusiveness in public schools.
Children worldwide have suffered “a nearly insurmountable” loss of learning due to prolonged school closures during the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Monday.
Saudi Arabia’s government reopened all of the Kingdom’s elementary schools and kindergartens on Sunday after a nearly two-year-long suspension of in-person learning for children aged 5 to 11 due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.
At a press conference Wednesday, President Joe Biden claimed that “very few schools are closing” while 3,430 so far this week have closed due to the low-risk omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) urged for unity in the face of endless fear and further school closures, saying it is “not March 2020.”
A report of the results of elementary and middle school students’ performance on a standardized assessment of reading and mathematics showed more students began the 2021 school year below grade level.
Public schools continue to shed students as more parents opt for other alternatives, including homeschooling.