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When Curriculum Falls Short in Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Here’s Where It Misses the Mark
Curriculum materials currently on the market are falling short when it comes to representing people of color and providing guidance for teachers on addressing diversity, a new survey found.
Q&A: How Can High Schools Continue to Improve Now?
Education Week talked with Robert Balfanz, a research professor at the Center for the Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University School of Education to look at how the process may help schools adapt more rapidly to the challenges of the last two years.
School Districts Are Starting to Spend COVID Relief Funds. The Hard Part Is Deciding How
District leaders and school business officials are scrambling to allocate significant, and in some cases unprecedented, sums of money while navigating complex bureaucratic hurdles and a public health crisis that continues to bear down on people and institutions across America.
Here’s How to Make Science More Relevant for Students of Color
Making science class more culturally relevant is just one of the strategies K-12 science teachers are using to better engage students of color at a time when Black and Hispanic people remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math careers and national discussions continue on how to make education overall more equitable.
High Schoolers to Decide How to Spend $1.5 Million in COVID Funding
Thousands of Connecticut high school students from across the state will decide how more than $1.5 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds for schools will be spent.
Teaching Social-Emotional Skills is Hard, Time-Consuming, and Necessary, Report Says
Helping students grow their social and emotional skills has become a big part of school counselors’ jobs, particularly given the impact of the pandemic on student mental health and behavioral issues.
With U.S. Aid Money, Schools Put a Bigger Focus on Mental Health
With a windfall of federal coronavirus relief money at hand, schools across the U.S. are using portions to quickly expand their capacity to address students’ struggles with mental health.
More Than Half of High Schools Now Offer Computer Science, But Inequities Persist
Access to computer science courses in high schools has jumped significantly over the past three years—from 35 percent to 51 percent, concludes a new study by the nonprofit Code.org. But access to those courses still remains uneven in many places.
Pandemic, Racial Justice Fuel Surge in Demand for Social-Emotional Learning
The pandemic and rising concerns about racial justice over the past year and a half have fueled a surge in school district interest in and spending on social-emotional learning, according to a new report.