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New Ken Burns PBS Documentary Offers Raw Look at the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Roughly half of mental illnesses start by age 14 and 75% occur by age 24. Brothers Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers worked to create a documentary to tell the story of how everyone, no matter their background, is affected by America’s mental health crisis.
Fueled by Grants, States Bet Innovative Career Training Programs Will Lure Disengaged Youth Back to School After COVID — Starting in Middle School
Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced $25 million in new grants in two states and nine cities — the latest in a series of initiatives by private donors and state and civic leaders — to boost promising career-pathway programs at a time when they are particularly suited to addressing educational inequities widened by COVID.
Dual Enrollment Can Help Fix the High School-to-College Pathway for Students Hit Hardest by COVID-19
Dual enrollment is a recovery strategy with promise to support communities most impacted by COVID-19. But it will take commitment to reduce the barriers that stop low-income, rural, Black and Hispanic students from participating.
New Report: How to Build Culturally Affirming Schools, According to Over 100 Black Teachers
Recruiting a diverse staff and building a “family-like” school culture are among the key action steps more than 100 Black educators recommend school leaders follow in a recent report released by Teach Plus and the Center for Black Educator Development.
Rising HS Dropout Rates & Declining Community College Enrollment Are Twin COVID Crises. How to Fix the Broken Education Pipeline
Clarity, guidance & relevance are what students seek at both the high school and college levels. Our education system owes them all three, and it needs to deliver them acting as a united force writes Lumina Foundation's Chauncy Lennon and Linked Learning Alliance's Anne Stanton.
Students Say Supportive College and Career Pathways Kept Them Engaged Through COVID Shutdowns. How Schools Can Use Federal Funds to Help
As states and districts contemplate how to best use their COVID-19 relief funding, they should think differently about addressing lost learning and building better systems for the future. College and career pathways fit the bill on all counts, writes Linked Learning Alliance president Anne Stanton and Alliance for Excellent Education president and CEO Deborah S. Delisle.
Project-Based Learning or Lectures? Our Research Shows PBL Helps Low-Income Students Do Better in AP Classes, Earn College Credit
With support for improving upon inequitable educational practices a top priority nationwide, project-based learning might be a key strategy post-pandemic, particularly for those students who have overcome the most.
Big Promises, Big Data: Is the SAT’s New ‘Environmental Context’ Score a Tool to Personalize College Admissions, or Another Impersonal Data Point?
It’s college-touring season at my house, and I am a goopy mess.
High school graduation rates for one important group are starting to get better
Miguel Hernandez spoke neither Spanish nor English when he arrived in California from a small Mexican mountain village four years ago.