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What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like?
Young people and educators in Alabama, Texas, Washington and Virginia talk about how they are navigating issues ensnared in the culture wars.
A call to service: Our schools need you to step up
As President Biden called for in his State of the Union address, it’s time for each of us to step up to help the bedrock of our nation — our schools. We need a cadre of caring adults — tutors, mentors, classroom parents and community partnership volunteers — to help lift the burden from the shoulders of our overworked educators and support staff and ensure that our students are supported, and schools remain open, writes All4Ed's Deborah Delisle.
Mental health services are crucially important for student success but often overlooked
Students are making decisions about college in the coming weeks and should put mental health on their lists of considerations, writes Alison Malmon.
Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years
A handful of conventional colleges and universities are adding three-year degrees as students and families increasingly chafe at the more than four years it now takes most of those earning bachelor’s degrees to finish — and the resulting additional cost.
After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared
Professors are scrambling to fill learning gaps and fend off what they say will be inequitable consequences.
Standardized tests in their current format are ‘incredibly antiquated’
“The way we test students on typical standardized tests has little or nothing to do with the way real world problems present themselves,” said Sternberg, a psychometrician who’s developed several theories related to creativity, intelligence and testing.
The fight for Black lives needs to happen in schools
High schools are uniquely positioned to affirm the worth — and support the mental health — of Black youth, writes Wenimo Okoya.
The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind
If we don’t quickly figure out how to foster academic recovery, too many talented Black and Latino students will be shut out from high-paying STEM careers, writes Tim Daly and Dan Goldhaber.
We know principals are important, so why doesn’t anyone want to be one these days?
The pandemic is driving principals out, and preparation programs don’t give them the support they need, writes Elina Alayeva and Leah Hamilton.