Back to School and Back to Normal. Or at Least Close Enough.
As school began this year, we sent reporters to find out how much — or how little — has changed since the pandemic changed everything.
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Learning: A Special Report
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CreditHannah Yoon for The New York Times At the Edge of a Cliff, Some Colleges Are Teaming Up to Survive
Faced with declining enrollment, smaller schools are harnessing innovative ideas — like course sharing — to attract otherwise reluctant students.
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CreditErin Kirkland for The New York Times Community Schools Offer More Than Just Teaching
The concept has been around for a while, but the pandemic reinforced the importance of providing support to families and students to enhance learning.
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CreditIke Abakah for The New York Times Could Tutoring Be the Best Tool for Fighting Learning Loss?
In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
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Meeting the Mental Health Challenge in School and at Home
From kindergarten through college, educators are experimenting with ways to ease the stress students are facing — not only from the pandemic, but from life itself.
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CreditMonika Aichele To Improve Students’ Mental Health, Schools Take a Team Approach
A program that takes a group approach to social, emotional and academic learning is taking off in U.S. schools, creating fresh bonds after remote learning.
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CreditLauren Lancaster for The New York Times Sounding Out a Better Way to Teach Reading
Schools are returning to phonics and other evidence-based literacy methods, and already there are signs that the switch is paying off in improved scores.
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CreditCarlos Bernate for The New York Times One Way to Ease the Teacher Shortage: Pay More, Some Districts Say
Systems throughout the nation don’t have enough teachers — especially in struggling schools. But there are many ways to address the problem.
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CreditPablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press With Online Learning, ‘Let’s Take a Breath and See What Worked and Didn’t Work’
The massive expansion of online higher education created a worldwide laboratory to finally assess its value and its future.
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Michael Sugrue, 66, Dies; His Talks on Philosophy Were a YouTube Hit
After an academic career spent in near obscurity, he became an internet phenomenon during the pandemic by uploading talks he had given three decades earlier.
By Trip Gabriel
She Just Earned Her Doctorate at 17. Now, She’ll Go to the Prom.
Dorothy Jean Tillman II of Chicago made history as the youngest person to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health at Arizona State University.
By Alexandra E. Petri
TimesVideoHow a $1 Billion Gift Changed Lives
Ginia Bellafante, a New York Times columnist, speaks with students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine about the $1 billion donation from the philanthropist, Ruth Gottesman.
By Ginia Bellafante, Gabriel Blanco and Christina Kelso
Robert Rosenthal, Who Linked Subtle Cues to Behavior, Dies at 90
His most famous finding was the “Pygmalion effect,” in which teachers’ high expectations of students can subconsciously make them better students.
By Clay Risen
Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year Is … ‘Rizz’
Sorry, Swifties. The Gen Z slang term — derived from “charisma” — went viral this year after the actor Tom Holland claimed to have none.
By Jennifer Schuessler
Tech TipHow to Make the Audio in Your Projects Sound Better
The right hardware and software — combined with time to learn — can improve the soundtrack in your videos, podcasts and other creative endeavors.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Tech TipUse Your Phone as a Pocket Tutor for Study on the Go
Apps that offer short lessons in various subjects can help get the most out of your time whether you’re waiting for a train or a meeting.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Do You Know the Real Names of These Authors?
Here’s a short quiz that challenges you to match up five writers with their pen names.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
With Art Colleges Closing, a Chicago Museum Has an Alternative
The cost of studying fine art is another fact that inspired a short-term intensive program led by artists of color that is an apprenticeship of sorts.
By Zachary Small
MindThe Race to Make A.I. Smaller (and Smarter)
Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human.
By Oliver Whang
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