EditorialNorma Mercado, a rural school system’s point person for dealing with homeless young people, delivers food to a grandmother caring for school-age children, in Bastrop, Texas, March 1, 2022. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
EditorialPlayers at the NBA Global Academy in Canberra, Australia, Sitting under pictures of other players who came before them on Monday, March 28, 2022. (David Maurice Smith/The New York Times)
EditorialBrigham Kiplinger, principal at Garrison Elementary School in Washington, D.C., greets students as they arrive for school on Jan. 24, 2022. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialAaron Wise, who has two high school-age children, at his home in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago, Jan. 6, 2022. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialAaron Wise, who has two high school-age children, at his home in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago, Jan. 6, 2022. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialLiam Dawson prepares to receive a COVD-19 vaccine at a clinic focused on getting shots into the arms of school-age youth at Denver School of Science and Technology Green Valley Ranch in Denver on May 8, 2021. (Kevin Mohatt/The New York Times)
EditorialBrandon Monzon, 16, receives a COVID-19 vaccine from Arely Arroyo at a clinic focused on getting shots into the arms of school-age youth, in Denver on May 8, 2021. (Kevin Mohatt/The New York Times)
EditorialChildren from the school-age room line up outside Kinder Kare before heading to the onsite playground in Midland, Mich., March 8, 2021. (Valaurian Waller/The New York Times)
EditorialAda Mendoza with her four school-age children, who have all been learning remotely since the beginning of the pandemic, in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 7, 2021. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialGianna Carucci, of White Township, N.J., gets a visit from Wiley the Wolf, while she attends virtual class at the Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos in Scotrun, Pa. on Sept. 22, 2020.
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EditorialMunicipal workers hand out free lunches to parents of school-age children in Santa Clara, Calif., on April 23, 2020. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialItaly: A moment of the event “Let's make space. Diamoci Tempo ”organized in Naples by the School and Children Network in the Covid19 emergency