education

As colleges scramble to prepare for a safe school year in the midst of the pandemic, are they prepared to enforce safe social distancing among their students?

Snow days could be a thing of the past. There is a program that is being tested that may never allow for a snow day again and you guessed it, it's all because of the pandemic.

They fought (or are currently fighting) for our country and can't afford school. That's not fair, so one local school is looking to help as many service men and women as they can get an education.

The days of cutting out those annoying box tops to get money for your kid's school is over. They have now come into the digital age.

A new program proposed by the governor would allow New York college students who are single parents to have free child care while they attend classes.

We've got pretty good schools here in New York, so how do we compare to other states?

There is a school district in the Capital Region that will have students staying a little longer each day next school year. This will affect all students grades K through 12.

US News and World Report released their annual Best High School rankings list earlier this week, and a Capital Region high school was the best from Upstate.

In an effort to educate and identify health risks of children in our schools, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill requiring students to be screened for obesity.

There are many great middle schools in the Capital Region. Are you, like me, not seeing your school on the list or does yours have bragging rights?

I know I can write in cursive but aside from signing my name and maybe on the sporadic check, I never use it. I never really thought it hurt to learn it but I guess there are schools in the Capital Region that don't teach it anymore and it's causing problems.

I'll admit, I was a nerdy kid in school, I loved homework. Math homework was like a giant logic puzzle to me, Spanish was a way to learn a language I could speak that my Mother couldn't and Science was a way to look at the world differently than usual. Apparently, though, homework these days is worse than I remember and a mom decided to do something about it.