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Released: 4-Mar-2021 4:25 PM EST
University of Redlands plans to return to in-person instruction in fall 2021
University of Redlands

The University of Redlands is pleased to announce today that it plans to return to in-person instruction in fall 2021. This includes courses at the College of Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Business, Education, Theology, and Continuing Studies. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Theology will also return to normal residential housing occupancy levels for their students.

Released: 4-Mar-2021 11:50 AM EST
One Year In, Rensselaer Experts Keep Addressing COVID-19 Challenges in Inventive Ways
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Over the course of the last year, Rensselaer experts have made many meaningful contributions to the understanding of — and response to — the COVID-19 crisis. Here is a list of pandemic-related topics they can address.

   
Released: 2-Mar-2021 8:30 AM EST
A Triumphant Return
California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office

Meet some CSU students who made the decision to return to school and persevere in earning their degree.

Released: 1-Mar-2021 8:00 AM EST
High school students tend to get more motivated over time
Ohio State University

Parents may fear that if their high school student isn’t motivated to do well in classes, there’s nothing that will change that. But a new study that followed more than 1,600 students over two years found that students’ academic motivation often did change – and usually for the better.

Released: 23-Feb-2021 5:25 PM EST
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital Provides Helpful Tips for Returning to School
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

And while students and parents alike are looking forward to the return to in-person learning, a child and adolescent psychiatry expert at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt says they should expect some challenges.

Released: 16-Feb-2021 11:10 AM EST
Investing in Principals Offers Very Large Payoffs for Students And Teachers, Major New Research Review Finds
Wallace Foundation

Impact of effective principals even larger than previously reported, benefitting student learning and attendance, and teacher satisfaction and retention; study calls for ‘renewed attention’ to cultivating high-quality principal workforce

Released: 12-Feb-2021 11:55 AM EST
Limited transmission of Covid-19 from open schools but teachers were affected
Uppsala University

Most countries introduced school closures during the spring of 2020 despite substantial uncertainty regarding the effectiveness in containing SARS-CoV-2.

Released: 11-Feb-2021 10:45 AM EST
COVID-19 Early Detection System Tested in Schools by UC San Diego and San Diego County
UC San Diego Health

In an effort to help schools reduce the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks as they resume in-person instruction, UC San Diego and the County of San Diego are testing the Safer at School Early Alert system to detect SARS-CoV-2 at schools and child care centers.

Released: 5-Feb-2021 1:55 PM EST
What Can We Learn About Nurturing SEL In and Out of School?
Wallace Foundation

Interest in social and emotional learning outpaces evidence on how to cultivate it. A new study helps narrow the gap.

Released: 5-Feb-2021 1:55 PM EST
Expert Event for New Report on How Principals Affect Schools
Wallace Foundation

An expert panel kicks off publication of the report that surveys two decades of research on school leadership

Released: 2-Feb-2021 2:30 PM EST
The Fight Against COVID-19 Continues
California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office

As the health crisis appears to plateau, CSU faculty and students continue to pool their time, talents and resources to fight the spread.

Released: 27-Jan-2021 10:30 AM EST
Returning to In-Person School During COVID-19: A Live Q &A with Mott Doctors
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Some students are starting to return to face-to-face school after months of remote learning during the pandemic. Experts will address parents' top questions about the transition.

Released: 13-Jan-2021 3:20 PM EST
New study suggests that college campuses are COVID-19 superspreaders
Taylor & Francis

College campuses are at risk of becoming COVID-19 superspreaders for their entire county, according to a new vast study which shows the striking danger of the first two weeks of school in particular.

   
Released: 8-Jan-2021 12:05 PM EST
School nutrition professionals' employee safety experiences during onset of the COVID-19 pandemic
Elsevier

A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, explores real-time personal and employee safety experiences and perspectives of school nutrition professionals ranging from frontline staff to state leadership across the United States during the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.

Released: 5-Jan-2021 12:55 PM EST
Reopening Florida schools followed by uptick in COVID-19 infections, Ben-Gurion U. study
American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Reopening Florida elementary and high schools in September was followed by increased COVID-19 infections, according to data analyzed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Harvard Medical School and Tel Aviv University researchers.

Released: 31-Dec-2020 5:00 PM EST
Tracking COVID-19 in transmission in Chicago schools: Public health officials take data-driven approach to reopening city public schools
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Data on COVID-19 transmission among Chicago youth – particularly in the city’s extensive network of Catholic schools – supports a strategy for gradual reopening of the city’s public school system, according to a report in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

Released: 29-Dec-2020 11:50 AM EST
Parents Want More Bullying Prevention in Schools
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Chicago parents continue to voice predominant concern about bullying and are turning most often to their children’s schools for help, according to new survey results from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.



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