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Mental Health Crises Are Bombarding Our Schools. Here’s What We Can Do
Prioritizing community and healing is a necessary prerequisite for academic learning. This crisis has demonstrated that the mental health—and academic progress—of young people depends on the caring relationships they build at school, writes Daniel Coles, Tala Manassah & Cassie Schwerner.
This new organization wants to accredit career education
The Workforce Talent Educators Association will focus its quality assurance on outcomes, says its chief accreditation officer and managing director.
We want to hear about your school district's rising leaders
Do you have an assistant principal who sets a gold standard on diverse and inclusive disciplinary practices? Do you know an assistant superintendent who makes the grade when it comes to innovative approaches to curriculum and learning design? K-12 Dive wants to hear about them!
Teachers Can Positively Impact Education Policy, We Just Have to Use Our Teacher Voice
While elected officials failing to listen to teachers is not a new phenomenon, education is at a turning point. We have to get creative about how we get involved because there is power in the classroom teachers sharing their experiences from the classroom, writes educator Geoffrey Carlisle.
California school enrollment over two decades: gains and losses by region with pandemic year drops
For two decades, K-12 enrollment in California was stable, hovering between 6.1 million and 6.2 million students. But within the state, there was movement: sharp enrollment declines in coastal counties – the rural north and urban Los Angeles and Orange County, where housing prices outpaced incomes – and sharp increases inland, as families moved east to bigger lots and cheaper homes.
Fewer People Are Getting Teacher Degrees. Prep Programs Sound the Alarm
As teacher dissatisfaction rates rise and concerns about teacher shortages intensify, colleges of education are sounding the alarm: Enrollment has been steadily declining for the past decade, and the pandemic has likely made things worse.
Want Students Who Think for Themselves? Let’s Eliminate Our Standardized School System
The way forward is to create systems and cultures to celebrate our learners' strengths while supporting their individual needs. Every child deserves to feel confident in middle school without conforming to a standardized system, writes music teacher Zachary Morita.
What Colleges and Job-Training Programs Can Learn From Teenagers’ Hopes and Fears
If leaders of colleges and companies, philanthropies and governments who are busy redesigning postsecondary pathways stopped and listened to teenagers, what would they learn? To find out, EdSurge interviewed nine high school students from across the U.S. about the lives they’re working toward and the choices they’re making to get there.
Guiding Young People Not to Colleges or Careers — But to Good Lives
Economic and social disparities plays out as teenagers make decisions about what to do after high school. And it’s complicated by common wisdom that advises young people that the path to dreams almost always passes through college—even though only some students make it there, and even fewer graduate.