Michael Melia
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Schools sticking with in-person learning scramble for subs
Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools that already had been struggling with staffing shortages.

As coronavirus cuts class time, teachers in Denver and the U.S. have to leave out lessons
English teachers are deciding which books to skip. History teachers are condensing units. Science teachers are often doing without experiments entirely.

Cyberattacks inflict deep harm at technology-rich schools
Schools are attractive targets because they hold sensitive data and provide critical public services, according to the FBI

Homework gap: Millions of students lack internet at home
Nearly 3 million students around the country struggle keeping up with their studies because they must make do without home internet.

Old, misleading info among perils of teaching climate change
When science teacher Diana Allen set out to teach climate change, a subject she'd never learned in school, she fell into a rabbit's hole of misinformation: Many resources presented online...

“Run, Hide, Fight” mindset making way into U.S. schools
BALTIMORE -- The actions of students who died tackling gunmen at two U.S. campuses a week apart have been hailed as heroic. At a growing number of schools around the...

Sandy Hook’s legacy: More security in elementary schools
The setting could not be more different, but David Wannagot says he applies some of the same skills from his 30-year police career to his new role as a school...

U.S. charter schools put growing numbers in racial isolation
Charter schools are among the nation's most segregated, an Associated Press analysis finds — an outcome at odds, critics say, with their goal of offering a better alternative to failing...