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Helping Students Bounce Back From a Disrupted Year: Strategies for Schools
For more than a year, the pandemic has caused widespread disruptions in many students’ school experiences, repeatedly changed their formats for learning, and isolated them physically from teachers and classmates. As educators work to return students to full-time, in-person learning, they will need more than just academic interventions. They will also need to help students reconnect and get back into the schooling mindset.
9 Tips for Creating Effective Community Partnerships Around Students’ Mental Health
Here’s how schools can bring together community groups to help fill in service gaps for students with mental health issues.
Why rural students like me are ‘meant to be here’ in college
Challenges for rural students begin in high school and create a higher education gap we must address.
Time to expand the school-to-work pipeline
A worthy vocational ed program for students and adults hangs by a slender thread. The real solution is more opportunity — for students and now for adults who are unemployed or underemployed.
Apprenticeships are the pathway to in-demand careers in the skilled trades
As unemployed Americans across the country are figuring out ways to rejoin the workforce, the skilled trades is a path to consider. The sector “can be an opportunity for people looking for work, especially those who have little to no experience in the skilled trades and need job training,” according to a new report from PeopleReady, an on-demand talent provider.
Census Bureau: 2019 had largest annual ed spending increase in a decade
Schools spent an average of $13,187 per student nationwide in FY 2019, which was a 5% increase from the year before and the highest average amount spent per pupil since 2008, according to new numbers posted by the U.S. Census Bureau this week.
To Address Low Representation of Black Teachers, Experts Suggests Focusing on Retention
Around 25 years ago, students of color represented four in 10 of the public-school population. Now, the number has increased to one out of every two students. However, despite this, the population of male educators has remained at 2% for almost a decade.
To “build back better,” we must connect young people to jobs and education
As we approach our second summer shaped by the pandemic, we should take the Biden administration’s “build back better” as inspiration and think more broadly about summer youth employment programs as youth development opportunities and critical touchpoints in the lives of young people.
What did he get right? Reactions to Gov. Newsom's K-12 budget
EdSource asked education leaders, advocates and observers to comment on Gov. Newsom’s record-level, revised 2021-22 budget for K-12 education, including Linked Learning Alliance President Anne Stanton.