The desks cost just $40 and take around one hour to make. "GMA" celebrates the heroes who rose to challenges on the front lines, in the classroom, in their communities and beyond amid the COVID-19 ...

With so many students not able to attend classes on site in schools during the pandemic, the Minnesota Tool Library launched a program to encourage woodworkers to build desks to be donated to needy ...

One of my rituals at the start of each school year is to clean student desks and chairs. Year after year, before students arrive for their first day of school, I scrub and shine these desks. My hands, ...

As educators dive into remote learning this fall, many will lean heavily on IT staffers for help. Some, however, will have additional tech support — from the very same students they’re planning to ...

The usual back-to-school shopping list includes crayons, pencils, tissues, scissors, notebooks, lunchboxes and backpacks. Those backpacks, of course, will be bringing home homework — and textbooks and ...

LOMBARD, Ill. (WLS) -- As hundreds of students learn remotely, retired carpenter Al Alevizos of Elmhurst has put his woodworking talents to use making free desks for needy students in Lombard ...

Dan Tynan is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. He has won numerous journalism awards and his work has appeared in more than 70 publications, several of them not yet dead. At first, when ...