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.

This handout video from UCLA researchers shows how different video speeds used in a psychology study compare. The study found that students remembered about the same amount of information, even after watching sped-up videos, until the videos were played at 2.5 speed.

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.

USC, which previously announced it would begin the spring semester with one week of remote classes due to locally rising COVID-19 cases, extended the remote learning period for a second week Friday.

Winter quarter classes begin Monday at UCLA and UC Irvine remotely for a planned two weeks in response to surging COVID-19 cases.

USC announced Friday it will conduct the first week of classes in the new year remotely.

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.

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

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.

There’s always been a summer slide, those two months off during which students tend to forget some of what they’ve learned the past year, but educators say the pandemic has made the back slide worse. Kim Baldonado reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on July 30, 2021.

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...

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.

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.

An app helps students navigate their feelings and get help. Vikki Vargas reported on NBC4 News on Wednesday, March 3, 2021.

It’s been more than a year since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States, and schools in many areas are approaching the anniversary of the shift to online remote learning. Pediatricians say there is an alarming uptick in young patients with depression and anxiety, and emergency room visits for mental health are up for children and...

A new study from NBC News and Challenge Success, a nonprofit affiliated with the Stanford Graduate School of Education, is one of the first to shed light on the differences between students whose classes have been exclusively online and those who’ve been able to attend in person at least one day per week

Science teacher John King and his wife have traveled across Massachusetts in their school bus to bring real-world science lessons to his students stuck at home in Lowell.

Massachusetts schools are continuing to see an increase in coronavirus cases, with 938 more cases reported among students and staff this week. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the numbers Thursday in its weekly COVID-19 report. A total of 541 students with district building access within seven days of the report tested positive from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20, as…

A D.C. chemistry teacher transformed his kitchen into a classroom to teach and inspire his students from home. Jonte Lee from Calvin Coolidge High School walked LX News host Tabitha Lipkin through some experiments while discussing the importance of representing Black teachers and the hearing impaired community through his popular classes on social media.

Americans fled big cities in droves to escape the coronavirus pandemic — and many of them are staying, permanently or indefinitely.