EditorialTablet with schoolwork, Old Babylonian, probably from southern Iraq, 1900-1700 BCE. Schooling began at an early age in the " tablet-house" under an older student called " big brother". After completing their training, students becam...
EditorialJiani Johnson labors over schoolwork at the Science Center, Harvard University Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 28, 2022. (Dumebi Malaika Menakaya/The New York Times)
EditorialAnuradha Maindola cooks while overseeing the schoolwork of her children Rudra and Ishita, who Maindola estimates have spent only about a month attending school in person since March 2020, at their home in Dehradun, India, Jan. 25, 2022. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
EditorialNao Sugimoto, a single mother who has struggled to look after her children during the extended lockdown, helps her son Ehis, 8, with schoolwork at their home in Campsie, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 9, 2021. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialG. Sathwik Reddy, who was orphaned with his siblings after their parents died of COVID-19, finishes schoolwork at the home he shares with his sister and grandparents in Hyderabad, India, June 17, 2021. (Rebecca Conway/The New York Times)
EditorialCharles Moore’s new job in security meant longer hours and a commute across the state line into Mississippi, leaving little time for him to do his schoolwork. (Whitten Sabbatini/The New York Times)
EditorialStudents do online schoolwork using a "WiFi Bus" parked at a grocery store lot in Lumberton, N.C., Oct. 28, 2020. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialPamela Walsh decided to vie for a school board seat in Concord, N.H., after months of supervising elementary school lessons from home. (Elizabeth Frantz/The New York Times)
EditorialGabriela Rojas, center, helps her sister Luna, right, and neighbor Yoiz Vasquez, left, with their remote schoolwork at her home in Lima, Peru, Aug. 13, 2020. (Marco Garro/The New York Times)
EditorialTablet with schoolwork, Old Babylonian, probably from southern Iraq, 1900-1700 BCE. Schooling began at an early age in the " tablet-house" under an older student called " big brother". After completing their training, students becam...