Anya Kamenetz

The Y, and New York City's Department of Education, have been caring for tens of thousands of children during the pandemic. Neither has had reports of coronavirus clusters or outbreaks.

In most states, Black students are more likely to be arrested at school, and according to one expert, "There isn't much evidence indicating that police officers in schools make schools safer."

Police presence in schools has been growing for decades; now there's a national movement to get them out.

COVID-19 closed schools all over the world. But students are still taking the lead in the Black Lives Matter protests. So we ask student activists how they're organizing during the pandemic.

American education is full of innovators practicing alternatives to the mainstream. Now, some of those alternatives are proving their mettle.

More than half of American parents plan to continue home-based education in the fall, a recent poll shows. Educational innovators got some radical ideas about how to improve learning in COVID-19 era.

Jesse Hagopian, the co-editor of the book Teaching For Black Lives, talks about the curriculum for this moment.

The legal cases argue that online classes don't have the same value as on-campus ones.

Parents from low-income homes are twice as likely to say remote learning is going poorly or very poorly, and 1 in 3 of all parents say they are "very concerned" about children falling behind.

Some companies are going virtual with their summer internship programs; other firms have simply canceled theirs. Here's our resource guide to finding the internships that are out there.

The YMCA and the American Camp Association recommend grouping campers into small "cohorts," and operating overnight camps as a "bubble," admitting only those who test negative for the coronavirus.

In this time of fear and uncertainty, NPR's Life Kit team partners with Sesame Street's lovable monster, Grover, to answer some of kids' tough questions.

A top pediatrician calls for reopening schools as soon as possible because of the negative impact the shutdown is having on students' learning and mental health.

"There's a joke going around that once the quarantine ends, everyone's going to be like a thousand times better," says one college esports competitor.

The document has been in the works for some time, but reports say the White House tried to suppress it.

Governors are starting to float ideas for reopening schools. But there are many concerns about what education will look like when that happens.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is a longtime advocate of alternatives to public schools, including home schooling. The secretary has also created a grant for work-based learning programs.

The National Sexual Assault Hotline reports a jump in calls coming in from minors in the month of March, when many shelter-in-place orders began.

From shorter days to smaller classes, school will likely look radically different in the fall.

A growing number of colleges are facing legal complaints aimed at their response to the coronavirus pandemic.