A chemistry teacher live-streams into a conventional classroom. Photo: Elevate K-12 Virtual learning didn’t work well during the pandemic. Without in-person connections, many students lose focus and learn less. But the “future of K-12 education” may include virtual teachers live-streaming into classrooms, writes Alyson Klein in Education Week. Proximity Learning and Elevate K12, rapidly growing for-profit companies, are providing virtual teachers in hard-to-fill subjects such

Thousands of schools in China “are installing webcams in classrooms and streaming live on websites that are open to the public,” reports Javier C. Hernández in the New York Times. Parents in China’s highly competitive system like the chance to observe their children in class. But strangers watch too. “What is this boy doing? He’s been looking around doing nothing, like a cat on a hot roof,” one user wrote. “This one is playing with his phone!” added another, posting a screens