According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), K-12 public schools faced significant teacher shortages in 2022, with nearly half reporting vacancies. Special education was one of ...

Ayla Kickhofel is a student in Maryland. She is a contributor to EdTech: Focus on K–12, sharing her experience with educational technology. Editor’s Note: In this Virtual Learning Diary, high school ...

As Jennifer Gomez prepared for an investor pitch, the 34-year-old Brooklyn native was primarily concerned with setting up her first grader, Olivia, for school and keeping her 3-year-old, Valentina, ...

The recent high school graduate and Gates Scholar says moving from a traditional brick-and-mortar school to virtual learning in middle school has helped him.

Similar to attending a physical campus and learning in person, there are advantages and disadvantages of attending a virtual classroom and learning online. Among the many benefits of online learning, ...

It’s easy to imagine that many of today’s 2nd graders—future accountants, computer programmers, lawyers—will rarely see the inside of a traditional office. The pandemic is likely to accelerate a trend ...

Most educators and parents would agree that the sweeping virtual instruction thrown together overnight at the beginning of the pandemic wasn’t nearly as effective as in-person learning for most ...