Natalia Kanem, executive director of the UN Population Fund, is among experts warning about disrupted health services and a surge in gender-based violence. Sophie Cousins reports. As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates, fears are increasing about the effect of the pandemic on women's and girls' sexual...
ISLAMABAD - Millions of children in Pakistan returned to learning in schools and universities Tuesday after a six-month-long closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The largest return to school in the world comes as daily infections and deaths from the outbreak in the country of 220 million have...
Kids with addicted parents face a challenging future. We will experience the effects of a generation left behind at school for years to come. As fall creeps in, this is the time of year when students usually crowd into school hallways and classrooms. It’s a chance for kids to show off their first...
Shemar, a twelve-year-old from East Baltimore, is good at math, and Karen Ngosso, his fourth-grade math teacher, at Abbottston Elementary School, is one reason why. “I would try to pump him up and tell him, ‘You’re a good student,’ ” she said. But she knew that he didn’t get enough sleep, and he was...
Biography: Dr. Mary Mendenhall is a Professor and Director at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Her expertise and research work include International and comparative education; education in emergencies; policies and practices of refugee education across camp, urban and resettlement contexts...
A fictional book developed by and for children aims to help families understand and cope with COVID-19. The scale and impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is difficult for adults to wrap their minds around, much less children. But young people still have questions, and they are...
A brief animated video, created by Putnam | Northern Westchester BOCES, welcomes elementary students back to the classroom and introduces the many ways school will look and feel different this year. ...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is changing family life. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization estimates 1·38 billion children are out of school or child care, without access to group activities, team sports, or playgrounds. Parents and caregivers are attempting to...
Global coordination is urgently needed to prevent this health crisis from becoming a child-rights crisis. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is of a scale most people alive today have never seen. Worldwide, the outbreak is claiming lives and livelihoods as health systems buckle, education...