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Jessica Calarco is an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington and the author of Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School and A Field Guide to Grad School: Navigating the Hidden Curriculum.  The idea of pod-style learning for kids has gained more stream recently, with some parents pulling children out of school and hiring tutors or experienced teachers. Many have...

Tutoring companies like eTutorWorld, TutorMe, and Tutor.com have seen increases in purchases for their online tutoring services during the pandemic. Demand is sparked by the need to supplement hastily put together online classes and students fearing they'll get behind in their education as classes remain remote in the fall. Summer is usually a quiet time for tutoring companies, but the number of new customers...

Teachers, students, and parents across the US are overwhelmingly concerned about going back to packed classrooms this fall, with the novel coronavirus still on the loose.  President Donald Trump has been bullish about reopening schools to in-person classes, even as experts warn that is a very risky move.  But there are many things that could be done to make classes safer, including holding them...

Education Secretary Betsy Devos on Sunday doubled down on the Trump administration's position on opening schools in the fall amid the US' ongoing record spike in cases of the novel coronavirus. "There is going to be the exception to the rule," Devos said. "But the rule should be that kids go back to school this fall." While children are at low risk of serious...

Retired Adm. William McRaven, a former US Navy SEAL commander and head of US Special Operations Command, says K-12 education is vital to US national security. "Unless we are giving opportunity and a quality education to the young men and women in the United States, then we won't have the right people to be able to make the right decisions about our national security,"...

  One-third of the global population is currently under quarantine, and as a result, online courses are seeing spikes in enrollment.   Coursera is a leading online learning platform and revealed their most popular classes of the moment — from brand-new CME-eligible global health courses on COVID-19 to the science of happiness.  Read more: 100 online courses from Coursera are $0 now through May 31 More...

College students and soon-to-be graduates have been left scrambling after their internship and job opportunities have vanished as a result of the novel coronavirus.  Confusing messages from state leaders and the president have created uncertainty about how much longer self-isolation and lockdown will last, adding to the stress of job searching.  Over the past four weeks, as the pandemic spread across the US, the...

  Millions of students of all ages use Coursera to learn something new, whether for personal enjoyment or professional advancement.  The online classes are completely free to audit, or, you can pay an affordable monthly fee in order to receive an official course certificate of completion.  The most enrolled classes on Coursera include Stanford's Machine Learning, Yale's The Science of Well-Being, and the University...

  Learning a new topic, whether for a career move or an academic test, is no small feat.  The free and popular Coursera class "Learning How to Learn" makes the process easier and teaches students about the science of learning.  By understanding the underpinnings of how your brain works, processes information, and builds memory, you can successfully learn any subject you want.  Read more: Yale's...

  Learning relevant business skills is convenient, cost-effective, and enjoyable with GoSkills.  The up-and-coming e-learning site has especially robust offerings in Microsoft Excel and project management.  You can become a more valuable employee, a more effective manager, or a standout job applicant with the help of the online lessons.    You don't have to have a business degree to excel in your career, but...

The head football coach at Pierce College in Los Angeles has been placed on leave after football players and staff members accused him of misleading recruits and cramming 30 student-athletes into a three-bedroom apartment, according to a report from the school's newspaper, the Roundup. Pierce football players told the Roundup that each athlete paid the coach, Carlos Woods, between $300 and $400 in rent...

Late last month, Benson High School senior KeShon Henderson officially accepted a scholarship to play college basketball at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois. Hours later, while walking down the streets of Omaha, Henderson was robbed and shot twice.  Henderson was shot once in the leg and once in his lung. He was rushed to a local hospital to treat his wounds but medical complications...

This week, Texas State University announced it under-reported sexual assaults on campus during the 2016 and 2017 school years. The school had originally reported just eight instances of sexual assault but now says the actual number is 38. Experts told Insider they worry the real number of sexual assaults on college campuses may be much higher, and that under-reported data extends far beyond Texas...

On September 25, Catherine Maccarone resigned from her job as a bus driver in Longview, Washington, after her arrest on suspicion of drunk driving earlier this month. New video shows Maccarone driving erratically and yelling at the students in her vehicle just before she was arrested. A 10-year-old boy called 911 when he got off the bus on September 12, telling officers his bus...