In January 2022, Jennifer Robertson’s now 11-year-old son, Fergus, developed long COVID, a condition in which the symptoms of COVID-19 linger for months or even years. Due to his symptoms, he missed ...

DENVER — It's been five years since coronavirus closed schools, sending students home to learn through the computer screen. The learning losses brought on by the pandemic sent math and reading scores ...

Hopes for a post-COVID academic recovery were dashed Wednesday morning with the publication of new federal testing data for elementary and middle schoolers. Newly released scores from the National ...

Researchers discovered that children who went back to school during COVID experienced far fewer mental health diagnoses than ...

Building straw rockets, germinating seeds in a bag, building a paper plate maze for marbles, and using Wikki Stix to draw letters – these are just some of the events the Boise Public Library hosted ...

Read more of our coverage of COVID’s fifth anniversary: a critical reflection on lessons learned and future pandemic preparedness; and the problem with brushing off our varied experiences of COVID as ...

On a recent October morning at Wascher Elementary School, Nicole “Nikki” Reynolds sang with her kindergarteners about the word of the day: responsibility. Reynolds jumped and danced along with her ...

For years, public health experts have said that COVID-19 infections in children are “mild.” According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the most common symptoms of COVID in ...

Gabrielle Jospa, 15, was diagnosed with long COVID after a serious bout with acute COVID-19 that left her hospitalized in 2021. Since then, the Long Island, New York, teen has had crippling headaches, ...

My kids loved their private elementary school because they got to learn in small groups outside. They missed out on a lot, ...

Children’s mental health unsurprisingly plummeted when they were forced to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent study has discovered. Using medical claim data from a large private health ...