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Schools are struggling to meet rising mental health needs, data shows
A survey released Tuesday documents the toll the pandemic has taken on students’ mental health, with 7 in 10 public schools seeing a rise in the number of children seeking services. Even more, 76 percent, said faculty and staff members have expressed concerns about depression, anxiety and trauma in students since the start of the pandemic.
For Black Americans, teaching about systemic racism is more urgent than ever
For many Black educators and students, teaching about race has never felt more important after the Buffalo massacre.
States are mandating Asian American history lessons to stop bigotry
As anti-Asian attacks surge nationwide, a movement is hoping to combat hate with history, pushing states to require lessons on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in public schools.
One little firm’s bizarre mix of college counseling and deep research
A company is helping students understand how to work on and develop grad-school level projects, allowing them to impress selective colleges.
Colleges scramble to recruit students as nationwide enrollment plunges
Hundreds of thousands have left college amid pandemic turmoil and the lure of jobs.
‘A cry for help’: CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health
More than 25% of young people told the CDC they felt "persistently sad or hopeless."
Teachers abandon letter grades in search of a fairer way
Instructors typically penalize children for late, incomplete or sloppy work, finding many opportunities (via homework and incremental tests) throughout the semester to do so, scholars say. These strictures, studies have shown, unfairly privilege one type of student — the kind with means, a supportive family, good nutrition, mental well-being and a peaceable home life — over others who may work after school, have a defective laptop or lack a desk and a quiet space to spit-shine their school work every night.
Drop in college enrollment threatens to cause long-term economic, social consequences
A sharp and persistent decline in the number of Americans going to college — down by nearly a million since the start of the pandemic, according to newly released figures, and by nearly 3 million over the last decade — could alter American society for the worse.
Students, seeing lax coronavirus protocols, walk out and call in sick to protest in-person classes
Nearly two years since the coronavirus hit, the adults — parents, teachers, administrators, politicians — have spent a lot of time and energy fighting over what schooling in a pandemic should look like. Now, for the first time in large numbers, students are rising up and demanding that they get a say, too.