Coronavirus (COVID-19) Families, Communities, and Education

A teacher conducts a lesson in a classroom

Using federal stimulus to get schools through the coronavirus crisis: The case for summer school and summer teacher pay

Douglas N. Harris

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

A teacher conducts a remote class through a tablet computer at a junior high school attached to Wakayama University Education Faculty in Wakayama Prefecture on March 3rd, 2020, amid an outbreak of the new coronavirus COVID-19 in Japan. The Japanese government requested all elementary, junior high, high schools in the country to close from Monday until the start regular spring break as a part of measures to reduce the risk of infection. However, some schools held several its events. The number of the new coronavirus COVID-19-hit patients has reached to 980 and the death toll has been confirmed 12 far as of March 1st in Japan. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Workplace emotional intelligence during the global coronavirus outbreak

Caroline Stokes

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

A teacher conducts a remote class through a tablet computer at a junior high school attached to Wakayama University Education Faculty in Wakayama Prefecture on March 3rd, 2020, amid an outbreak of the new coronavirus COVID-19 in Japan. The Japanese government requested all elementary, junior high, high schools in the country to close from Monday until the start regular spring break as a part of measures to reduce the risk of infection. However, some schools held several its events. The number of the new coronavirus COVID-19-hit patients has reached to 980 and the death toll has been confirmed 12 far as of March 1st in Japan. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

COVID-19 outbreak highlights critical gaps in school emergency preparedness

Allison Anderson

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

ZHENGZHOU, CHINA.- Physics teacher Zhao Chuanliang gives an online tuition for students at a local high school in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, Feb. 2, 2020. As schools across the country are required to postpone the opening of the spring semester, online tuition has been promoted as an effective method.

How has the coronavirus impacted the classroom? On the frontlines with Dr. Jin Chi of Beijing Normal University

Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, February 27, 2020