According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), K-12 public schools faced significant teacher shortages in 2022, with nearly half reporting vacancies. Special education was one of ...

It’s easy to imagine that many of today’s 2nd graders—future accountants, computer programmers, lawyers—will rarely see the inside of a traditional office. The pandemic is likely to accelerate a trend ...

As Jennifer Gomez prepared for an investor pitch, the 34-year-old Brooklyn native was primarily concerned with setting up her first grader, Olivia, for school and keeping her 3-year-old, Valentina, ...

Michael Bodekaer Jensen is both an EdTech innovator and a multi-disciplinary academic. He is a co-founder and CEO of Labster. After two disruptive years, many students resemble Ferris Bueller's bored ...

What is a virtual classroom? Classrooms are essentially a system of communication, which help facilitate a dialogue between teachers and students. Traditional classrooms and virtual classrooms achieve ...

In the first study to consider brain activity during visuospatial problem-solving across immersive virtual reality (VR), 2-D computer screens and physical environments, researchers from Drexel’s ...

Public schools in Baltimore City and Baltimore County went virtual for a couple of days this week as both systems ran out of ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

Deanna Nye is not ready to send her children back into classrooms come fall, even though she knows the worst of the pandemic may be over. Her 8-year-old twins have medical conditions that put them at ...