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Student quarantines are sending thousands of New York students home everyday, because they might have gotten COVID-19 from a classmate. But there’s mounting evidence that quarantined kids rarely get the coronavirus, and it has parents, schools, and policy makers asking if quarantines are worth kids missing so much school, and what the alternatives could be.

This week on Public Radio Presents: APM Reports - Under pressure: The college mental health crisis. What is a college’s responsibility for helping students navigate mental health challenges, and how well are colleges rising to the task? Listen Sunday, September 26 at 7 p.m. on WRVO, on-air and online.

What does an elementary school classroom look like right now? Photojournalist Natosha Via spent the day with one Louisville music teacher as she adjusted masks and sanitized xylophone mallets.

This week on Public Radio Presents: APM Reports - Who wants to be a teacher? Many schools around the country are struggling to find enough teachers. Enrollment in teacher training programs at colleges and universities is plummeting, and schools are looking to other sources to fill classrooms. Listen Sunday, September 19 at 7 p.m. on WRVO, on-air and online.

This week on Public Radio Presents: APM Reports - Fading Beacon: Why America is losing international students. In this hour, APM Reports teams up with Karin Fischer of the Chronicle of Higher Education to trace America’s rise as a global beacon for higher education and examine what’s lost as that changes. Listen Sunday, September 12 at 7 p.m. on WRVO, on-air and online.

They’re the people we trust to get our children safely to and from school, but this year there’s a shortage of bus drivers who can fill these vital roles.

As this school year begins, many students and teachers are back in the classroom full-time for the first time since before the pandemic.

As the first day of school inches closer, frustrated school boards across the state are scrambling to put together reopening plans without the state’s guidance.

Parents across the country are weighing whether to send their children to in-person school this fall. Some districts are getting creative in an effort to win them back.