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email article Last week's revised CDC guidance on how schools may operate during the COVID-19 pandemic got generally good marks from pediatricians and public health specialists -- even though teachers' representatives were less than enthusiastic. The new guidelines tie decisions around phased reopenings to rates of COVID-19 transmission in the community and prioritize masking and physical distancing over other mitigation measures. Danielle Dooley, MD, a pediatrician at Children's National in Washington, D.C., and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), applauded t...

CBS News contacted all 50 state education boards and found only a handful of states tracking school instruction methods on a daily or weekly basis.

CBS News contacted all 50 state education boards and found only a handful of states tracking school instruction methods on a daily or weekly basis.

In July, MedPage Today published a story that examined the debate around whether and how to reopen schools in the midst of a pandemic. In this follow-up, we explore how that debate evolved as the academic year got underway and more data accrued. In mid-August, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) updated interim guidance first issued in June, in which the group strongly recommended that kids return to school in-person. The AAP stated that "the preponderance of evidence" suggests that children "may be less likely to become infected and to spread infection," and less likely to develop sympt...

Students in the Madison Metropolitan School District have been learning mostly from home since March, when schools closed as the COVID-19 pandemic became a reality here. Hundreds of thousands of their peers around the United States are facing similar circumstances, especially in larger, urban areas. But others — both here and around the world — have returned to classrooms. A group of Dane County parents has been advocating to change that since late this summer, with recent efforts including marches and demonstrations ahead of school board meetings in Verona and Middleton. An “O...