BOSTON - U.S. guidelines that say students should be kept 6 feet apart in schools are receiving new scrutiny from federal health experts, state governments and education officials working to return as ...

If students can be closer than 6 feet apart, then classrooms could be full with all students and the teacher wearing masks. If students must stay 6 feet apart even while wearing masks, that would be ...

That guidance is based on the idea that the respiratory droplets emitted while talking, singing or coughing fall to the ground relatively quickly and don’t travel far. But it isn’t just the droplets ...

A week before school districts in New York State must submit plans for reopening, they continued to get conflicting guidance. Reopening classrooms – or not – will affect the economy as well as the ...