Education

Understanding a pandemic and how the coronavirus is impacting communities can be overwhelming and complicated, especially for children.

The Navajo Nation’s schools, located in three different states and under various types of administration, are making widely divergent plans for reopening next month as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

In 2016, while she was still an undergrad at Julliard, Ariel Horowitz got a strange phone call from her mother, a curriculum consultant for Navajo Technical University.

Shaniah Chee was sitting in her mother’s truck outside Monument Valley High School, Utah, where she graduated from four years earlier, because she was trying to connect to wi-fi.