Online Education

It has been nearly a year since the pandemic first forced schools in Missouri to close. For many children, the long absence is starting to drag down grades and drain their love of school.

While most voters head into the voting booth alone, all 50 states allow parents or guardians to bring their kids with them to the polls. Nareissa Smith, an attorney and teacher with the St. Louis-based company, Varsity Tutors, says this is a good practice because it's a learning opportunity and it gets kids excited about civic engagement.

“Teaching in Room 9” offers local students reading and math four days a week and social studies and science each Friday via the Nine Network. St. Louis' PBS affiliate boasts well over 350 episodes, and more than a half-million views from local students.

Many schools are now conducting classes 100% online. Navigating virtual education has many families scrambling to make it work, but likely none more so than families with special needs students.

EDWARDSVILLE — The coronavirus outbreak has forced classes at nearly every university and college in the St. Louis region online, and students and faculty…

Nora Pryor imagines squeaking sneakers on hardwood floors when she thinks of gym class. But her physical education is currently punctuated by chirping…

Virtual schooling is coming to public K-12 education in Missouri next month.While districts expect high school students to be the first to enroll, the…

Increasingly, college life is less about walking across the quad or stopping at the dining hall before sitting in a big lecture hall, and more about…

After failing to make the grade with professors at Washington University, Semester Online is going offline for good.The consortium was designed to let…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 23, 2013: Bill Lowry considers himself to be a “pretty low-tech guy – no iPhone, no apps, any of…