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.

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.

Chicago scrapped classes for five days days in a confusing standoff that ended late Monday with the teachers’ union over COVID-19 safety measures in the nation’s third-largest school district.

After four days of missed instruction, there has been a breakthrough in negotiations between Chicago Public Schools and the city’s teachers’ union, as the House of Delegates has voted to suspend the union’s remote work action. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos has the story.

The rank-and-file members of the Chicago Teachers Union have voted to temporarily transition to remote learning, a move that prompted Chicago Public Schools officials to cancel classes for Wednesday.

As the rapidly-spreading omicron variant fuels a surge in COVID-19 cases, calls have grown throughout Illinois for school districts to reinstate remote learning. At least two Chicago-area district – Niles Township High School District 219 and West Chicago District 33 – have shifted to online instruction, particularly due to staffing issues brought on by COVID infections and employee absences. Despite…

Thousands of COVID tests for Chicago Public Schools students and staff members have been deemed “invalid” as the district prepares for a return to classrooms following the winter break.

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.

Parents in both Chicago and the suburbs are rallying to call for remote learning options for students as coronavirus concerns persist in many districts.

While hundreds of Chicago Public Schools’ students have been granted a waiver to take part in remote learning, that’s not the case for every family that applied. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

School starts in two weeks for Chicago Public Schools, but some parents are pushing the district to make a last-minute change. They want remote learning to be an option.

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.

The Illinois State Board of Education voted to adopt a resolution requiring schools to resume in-person learning for the fall school year, with few exceptions.

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.

Teachers and administrators with suburban Cicero School District 99 have taken a number steps to resume in-person instruction in the coming weeks, under a new hybrid model backed by the town council and union members.

Some parents of Evanston Township High School students are questioning why their teens will continue to learn remotely five days a week when other Chicago-area high schoolers are heading back to the classroom on hybrid learning models. “The parents want to know what can we expect moving forward,” said Dr. Valerie Kimball, a pediatrician and parent of an Evanston Township…

Some parents of Evanston Township High School students are questioning why their teens will continue to learn remotely five days a week when other Chicago-area high schoolers are heading back to the classroom on hybrid learning models. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.