Changes to ventilation — everything from opening windows to making pricey upgrades to HVAC systems — can help reduce the risk of the coronavirus being spread inside a building.
While many schools are continuing distance learning, educators want to do things differently this time for students who need special education services. Parents say the schools have to do better.
Taran Richardson is a star athlete, on the Dean's list and senior class president. He applied to 70 colleges and was accepted by 65. Richardson chose Howard University to study astrophysics.
The Atlanta Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) announces a kickoff event, “Crowning of Fountain (Stone) Hall,” to commemorate its plans to restore Fountain Hall on the campus of Morris Brown College.
Callie Evans and Audri Williams rap about online learning and the COVID-19 pandemic from the empty halls of Monroe Comprehensive High School, backed up by mask-wearing, move-busting cheerleaders.
The president of the city's United Federation of Teachers called for testing every student and staff member before the start of school, set for Sept. 10.
Tift County's School Nutrition Director is on a mission to find and deliver food to every student who needs it, even as she has to completely change the way she would serve it up during the pandemic. It's the latest in our video series.
The University of Notre Dame is moving all undergraduate instruction online for two weeks after a surge in cases, while Michigan State University is asking students to stay home for the fall semester.
UNC-Chapel Hill had to cancel in-person classes after a surge in coronavirus cases. Mimi Chapman tells NPR that "should give every other large public university in the country pause."
Some Kansas teachers are returning to classrooms despite the pandemic. Otherwise, they may have to pay school districts thousands of dollars to find replacements or lose their teaching licenses.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Mimi Chapman, chair of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty, about the school shifting undergraduate instruction online after a week on campus.