* Abbreviations: COVID-19 — : coronavirus disease SNAP — : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Nationwide closures of elementary and secondary schools due to the novel coronavirus disease...

Medicine and Society from The New England Journal of Medicine — Reopening Primary Schools during the Pandemic

"There is strong evidence that, with basic safety measures in place, the net benefits of keeping schools open outweigh the costs of closing them," said UNICEF.

Fear is driving too many schools to be overly cautious about providing in-person learning, says Dr. Ashish K. Jha.

Fears from the summer appear to have been overblown.

Education experts and leaders present the newest data on school responses and transmission rates for COVID-19 and discuss the data’s implications for K–12 education.

Research and Resources on School (Lack of) Reopening Sarah Cohodes [email protected] Last updated: 12/8/2020 Suggestions welcome: please email at the above address or contact via Twitter...

Has a desire to keep the coronavirus out of schools put children’s long-term well-being at stake?

Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen gives America an “F” on school reopening efforts, and says we’re in danger of losing thousands of virtual dropouts and wasting mild late summer/early autumn weather...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has brought distinct challenges to the care of children and adolescents globally. Unusually for a respiratory viral infecti...

What can we learn from regional enrichment centers, which hastily opened just before the peak of the coronavirus pandemic?

We start this week's episode by interviewing Dr. Alasdair Munro, a pediatrics infectious disease expert, on the risk of spread of COVID-19 in children and through schools. We end with an interview...

Children have been relatively spared from the effect of clinical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The newly described inflammatory syndrome1,2 is rare in terms of the total population of childr...

There is global interest in the role of children in the transmission of COVID-19. What does the evidence really say? ....

Would letting coronavirus infect the broad US and global population be a safe and effective means of ending the COVID-19 pandemic? Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, of Stanford University's Center for...

"We don't think of this as an on or off light switch, so to speak; we think about this as a dimmer switch as a dial that you turn up and down."

Children have suffered because many mayors and governors were too willing to close public schools.

Keeping kids out of the classroom will make recovering from the pandemic harder in the long term, while not keeping us any safer in the near term.

The virus is raging across the country, shutting down schools although they haven’t turned out to be super-spreader sites.

But New York City and other places are reverting to all-virtual learning anyway.

The decision that will affect hundreds of thousands of children wasn’t science-based.

Late last month, Ireland entered a strict, six-week lockdown against the spread of Covid-19, under which social gatherings are prohibited, exercise permitted only within five kilometers of the home,...