"Covid has been a tipping point that has pushed some families to get help," said one expert. Susan McLaughlin's 12-year-old daughter, Isabela, was a straight-A student before the pandemic. Isabela, who...

The study by NBC News and Challenge Success is one of the first to shed light on differences between students who are online-only and those in classrooms. As debates rage across the country over whether...

“We’re going to almost need a New Deal for an entire generation of kids to give them the opportunity to catch up,” one advocate said. It has been almost 10 months since Covid-19 began battering families...

The children most likely to have lost ground are also those most likely to skip tests, which could leave schools with unreliable data. This article about standardized testing was produced by The Hechinger...

Kids and Covid-19: Long hours on the computer for remote learning could lead to repetitive stress damage that may not reveal itself until later, experts warn. With students spending unprecedented long...

“I would help him with his activities, I would help them a bit with what I could to do their work, but it really isn’t sufficient,” one teen's mother said in Spanish. Roberto Gomez, 14, moved with his...

“Covid’s not just killing people by the disease. It’s killing people by depression and suicide,” Dylan Buckner’s father said, adding that no one should feel ashamed if they need help. Chris Buckner was...

Interviews with eight parents in five states showed how Edgenuity software was pressed into duty by some school districts as an all-in-one approach to remote learning. When Nevada high schooler Simone...

“Schools are signing up for this and not understanding that the commercial pressure is going to happen when kids are at home,” said one expert. The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, a nonprofit...