Hi. I'm Jim Gaffigan. I used to do stand up comedy, I use to write, I also did some acting. But now I'm a professional shut-in, living with my wife and five children in our New York City apartment.

Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on The Character Tree’s blog. When we were just a couple weeks into distance learning, I started to really miss writing workshop time. Over ...

Perhaps the impacts of distance learning are not as bad as once thought. To be clear, the numbers are not good. A report before many students began their winter break — during which they would spend ...

In negotiations with school districts around the state, the California Teachers Association has argued, with some success, that school districts lack the authority to force teachers to do live online ...

Our nation’s schools have been involuntarily thrust into a massive experiment on distance learning, and I’m pretty sure we already know the results. Robert Pondisci, a senior fellow at the Fordham ...

Ed Byrne is now accepting a select number of students for long distance lessons--IN REAL TIME WORLD WIDE. Lessons will be administered LIVE through internet audio transmission. Software is FREE, Easy ...

February 12, 2026 - California's Assembly Bill 218 made it possible for childhood abuse victims to sue public agencies up to their 40th birthday or five years after discovering the abuse. As we all ...

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A statewide educational initiative led by WHRO in Norfolk, Va., is bridging the digital learning divide with a midday broadcast lineup of instructional TV programs for K-12 students who lack internet ...

The first note of Ray Foulkes’ weekly piano lesson is the staccato double ring of his telephone. Every Monday at 8 p.m. in the southern English town of Romsey, the basement waterproofer picks up his ...

Online writing celebrations: Another simple success I have found along the way of distance learning was in the form of an online writing celebration at the culmination of these lessons. My writers ...