COVID-19

OK, I have a confession to make. I have not been as good at monitoring my children’s internet access as I should have been. If I had to grade myself, I wou

Our family has been working from home with children for seven years. For the past two years, we have been unschooling our now 7-year-old. Before that, he did two years of half-day preschool. The closer we came to sending our kiddo to public school, the more I started seeing homeschool as a more viable option. This wasn’t always an easy choice, but it has made sense for our family.

As the calendar turns to April, I typically end up asking myself the same question every school year—“will they remember?” In my case, that question is a r

Paradoxically enough, as Washington, D.C., has slid from mass school closures into social distancing and working from home toward increasingly likely shelt

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted, well, everything, but at times I find that I have more time to communicate, virtually if necessary, with family and fr

Access to public education is now a fundamental right. All 50 states mandate public education in their state constitutions. Once states made public educati

This year, there will be no more school bells. There will be no more pencils to sharpen or papers to pass out. There will be no end of the year awards asse

Last week I looked at the stark disparities in the quality of online instruction offered to children during the COVID-19 school closures, comparing Princet

Late this morning the U.S. Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or the CARES Act. The total tab is $2 trillion and includ