Los Angeles Magazine

In L.A. and Beyond, Distance Learning Is Taking a Toll on Both Parents and Kids

During a February 26 media telebriefing, Dr. Nancy Messonier of the CDC first began advocating for social distancing measures that included school closures and distance learning to continue education ...
LAist

Judge Orders Schools To Offer Better Virtual Classes For Students With Disabilities

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Commercial Integrator

Distance Education: What We Learned, What Works and What Doesn’t

Effective distance learning is about content — specifically, content delivery and content comprehension. In other words, distance learning is about people. Because it’s people, after all, who send the ...
Government Technology

U.S. Department of Ed Revisits Distance Learning Guidelines

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) last month proposed new guidelines to strengthen its oversight and data-gathering practices for distance education. According to a January proposal outlining ...
Forbes

Enabling Student Success: What We’re Learning From Distance And Hybrid Education

Here are the five lessons we've learned from distance and hybrid learning that empower us to make education as immersive, effective, and inclusive as possible. Like many parents and guardians, I felt ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Washoe school superintendent recommends switch to distance learning

The Washoe County School District Superintendent is recommending a switch to distance learning in early December due to a lack of additional COVID-19 contact tracing and testing capacity.
Education Week

Bridging Distance for Learners With Special Needs

As summer transitions to fall, millions of students began the new school year the same way they ended the last: physically separated from the teachers and staff who are crucial to their academic ...
The Desert Sun

COVID-19: For PSUSD, failing grades are on rise in distance learning - The Desert Sun

The numbers were hardly what Dr. Mike Swize wanted to present the Palm Springs Unified School District Board of Education. In both middle schools and high schools across the district, with distance ...
Santa Monica Daily Press

SMMUSD to propose ‘distance learning plus’ reopening model for schools

On Dec. 17, the Board of Education will vote on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s staff recommendation to adopt a ‘distance learning plus’ reopening plan for when L.A. County enters ...
EdTech

How Have Educators Adapted Distance Learning for Special Education Students?

Teaching special education online has its own unique challenges, but teachers have found ways to use educational technology to aid students. Special education instructors, like everyone else, turned ...

Distance learning accounts for more than a tenth of India’s higher education GER: Union Minister

Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar said distance and open learning comprise over one-tenth of the total ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

For many teachers, distance learning is a constant fight to get students to engage

Science teacher Mickey Sullivan teaches about 100 middle school students from her kitchen table. Every school day Sullivan dresses, fixes her hair and puts on earrings as if she were going to school ...