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With Aid to Spend, Schools Look for Students Who Need Help
Schools across America are racing to make up for time they lost during the pandemic by budgeting billions of dollars for tutoring, summer camps and longer school days and trying to untangle which students need help most urgently after two years of disruptions.
Why It’s So Hard for Schools to Spend All That COVID Relief Money
Accusations that schools aren’t spending their newfound riches fast enough ignore the many hurdles that stand in their way. Some states have been stingy with transmitting relief funds to districts in a timely fashion. Requirements for expenses that qualify for the funds are complex. Filling out paperwork to get reimbursed can be onerous for understaffed district offices. Reimbursements in some states have been arriving at a snail’s pace.
Do I Want to Be a Telecommuter When I Grow Up? High Schoolers Ponder That Question
A survey of 11th and 12th graders in the United States and similarly aged students in the United Kingdom found that 19 percent of the 16- to 18-year-olds were taking the ability to telecommute into account in their career considerations.
The Anti-Racist Counternarrative Public Education Needs Now
Our school systems would benefit from banding together to begin a movement for anti-racism in schools by implementing six scalable steps to escape the reactionary trap that continues to perpetuate systemic racism in our public schools, writes Alexandria, VA superintendent Gregory C. Hutchings Jr.
Ignoring Racism in Schools Actually Increases Prejudice
Teachers should push back against misguided laws with evidence on what works, writes Ross Wiener & Francesca López.
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.
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.
Ketanji Brown Jackson: 5 Things for Educators to Know About the Nominee and Her Hearing
The Senate Judiciary Committee is conducting the confirmation hearing this week for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to succeed retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court. Here are some highlights on the nominee and from the first two days of the hearing.
The ‘Nation’s Report Card’ Is Getting an Overhaul: 5 Things to Know
A more flexible test, given on the devices schools and students are already using, that quickly produces actionable information for educators and policymakers: That’s the vision going forward for the test known as the Nation’s Report Card.