NBC 5 first met high school junior Caiden Trivedi right after he finished an Advanced Placement exam.
More than one million students across the country took AP exams online at home amid the pandemic, but students say they ran into technical problems.
COVID-19 opened a lot of our eyes to video conferencing and how much we can do from home thanks to computer programs like Zoom and WebEx. There’s now a new player that’s offering improvements to those popular sites.
Even after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s announcement on Monday that camps are allowed to open, many are considering staying closed, worried about the risk of lawsuits for not doing enough to keep campers safe.
School boards are starting to talk about a plan from the Texas Education Agency to adjust school calendars. Starting earlier, ending later and more time built in the middle for extra help and longer winter and spring breaks.
Another large outbreak of COVID-19 in the fall, is something school leaders are planning for across North Texas. At-home learning could make a come back as well. Schools are taking steps to prepare and that includes schools where students only go inside the school building a couple of days a week.
Parents driving by a school to pick up lunch, it’s a scene that’s been happening for weeks.
There’s so much focus on staying connected and bridging the technology gap in many of our schools. While important, one North Texas teacher says it’s not the only way to engage students.
Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said the district could use a “hybrid” model, incorporating some in-person and online instruction.
On Monday, Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa unveiled his plans to get WiFi into every home within the district.
High schoolers around North Texas are learning how their graduation ceremonies will take place amid the pandemic. Many of those ceremonies are virtual. But in Denton County, they may have the most unique ceremony planned, as Texas Motor Speedway.
The University of North Texas is preparing to reopen its campus. The university president sat down with education reporter Wayne Carter to talk about his plan that will be formally announced Thursday night.
Internet access is a problem among students in school districts as more classes move online. The superintendents of Fort Worth & Dallas ISD’s are now working to change that.
Thousands of hotspots were handed out to students in Fort Worth last week. It took money from the school district, Facebook, and community partners like ‘Read Fort Worth’ to finally get every student in the district connected.
DeSoto ISD is working on a solution to get a laptop in the hands of each and every student. Currently, households with more than one student were only given one district issued laptop for all the students in the house to share, which some parents say just is not working.
Garland Independent School District says its success comes from planning well before other districts starting thinking about coronavirus.
