COVID-19

Ten-year-old Gavin Williams is a lively and affectionate youngster who loves to visit museums, experiment with computer-coding and plunge into ocean waves

We’re facing a global emergency where tens of millions of children are seeing their education disrupted. But the truth is that for many kids and families,

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

On March 27, two weeks ago last Friday, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the CARES Act), a $2 trillion stimul

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

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

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