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.

Similar to attending a physical campus and learning in person, there are advantages and disadvantages of attending a virtual classroom and learning online. Among the many benefits of online learning, ...

The pandemic’s sweeping shutdown of school buildings led many districts to hastily put up emergency virtual learning services to continue providing lessons to students. For many teachers, students, ...

The pandemic has dramatically disrupted traditional learning. While that disruption has widened gaps in access to education that existed along racial, ethnic, and socio-economic lines, it has also ...

When Deepa Ravindra visited the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University as a high school senior, she noticed a young child in Levering Hall reciting multiplication tables. She recalls being ...

Students in high-poverty schools paid a far higher price for virtual learning than did their peers in low-poverty schools, leaving vulnerable students even further behind than when the pandemic ...

Bit by bit researchers continue to piece together how virtual learning impacted English-language learners’ education, from limiting vital in-person interactions with teachers and peers to leaving some ...