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Colleges around the country faced an admissions season marked by pandemic-era challenges: dropped testing requirements, remote learning, disrupted extracurriculars and record applicant pools.

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Educators tell NPR that the stress of teaching through the pandemic has affected their health and their personal lives. "It's like nothing I've experienced before," one teachers says.

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Multigenerational households and anti-Asian bullying may play a role.

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Education Dept. Restores Debt Cancellation For Some Borrowers With Disabilities

Cory Turner and Clare Lombardo | NPR |

Monday's announcement comes after thousands of borrowers with disabilities had their federal student loans erased, then handed back to them during the pandemic.

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Juvenile incarceration is down, but many young people still in facilities have gone months without seeing their families.

After A Year Of Remote Classes, Teachers Are Meeting Students For The First Time

Eda Uzunlar | NPR |

As schools reopen — either fully or for hybrid learning — teachers are getting the chance to meet their students face-to-face.

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The president appears likely to reopen the majority of K-8 schools within his first 100 days in office, but many families are still opting out.

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The New Jersey school says its new COVID-19 requirement will help it make "a full return to our pre-pandemic normal" on campus.

New Data Highlight Disparities In Students Learning In Person

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The first federal survey on school reopening shows racial and geographic differences in participation in full-time, in person learning.

Homeschooling Doubled During The Pandemic, U.S. Census Survey Finds

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Precise numbers are hard to come by, but several factors — including school closures and parents working from home — appear to have led to an increase in households that are homeschooling.

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In many places, the 6-foot guidance was interpreted as requiring schools to operate on part-time schedules in order to reduce class sizes. A 3-foot rule would allow many more schools to reopen fully.

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The U.S. Department of Education says it is scrapping a controversial, Trump-era policy that granted only partial student loan relief to borrowers who were defrauded by private, for-profit colleges.

LA Schools, Teachers Reach Tentative Deal To Reopen Classrooms To In-Person Learning

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The agreement, which still must be ratified by members of the teachers union, would see most students returning to physical classrooms for the first time in more than a year.

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Four out of 5 parents told us they support targeted interventions by schools that would help students recover academic, social and emotional skills.

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California Offers $2 Billion Incentive In A Push For In-Person Learning

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Public schools that don't offer in-person instruction for k-2 students by the end of the month will lose out on 1% of eligible funds every day that students remain out of the classroom.