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What America Needs to Tackle the Youth Mental Health Crisis

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By Duncan Young and Jerry Barone Editor’s Note: This is the first of a four-part series on the student mental health crisis and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for in-school mental health resources. Our children are facing a mental health epidemic.

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Data Shows Demographics Are Shifting in Fast-Growing Cities. How Are School Districts Impacted?

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The chart compares racial and ethnic makeup of the residents within each school district (not only students) from 2009 to 2021. We selected this timeframe because each year actually represents the tailend of five-year data estimates, with data gathered from 2005-2009 and the newest from 2017-2021.

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Certell’s Poptential™ Addresses 21st-Century Wars With Free Memorial Day Teaching Resources

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Composed of scenes from the 2009 historical drama “The Taking of Chance,” the film follows Colonel Michael Strobel, played by Kevin Bacon, a military officer who volunteers to escort the body of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps, who was killed in Iraq, back to his hometown in Wyoming for burial. A mini-lesson includes a video clip of U.S.

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SLIDE: data, interactive tools, and an equity wake-up call (Part 1)

NeverEndingSearch

The project’s newly released Perspectives Report , based on analysis of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data, examines school library employment in the United States from 2009 to the latest data available at the time of analysis, 2018-19. almost 20% fewer than in 2009-10. Poster rom Kachel, Debra E.,

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Empty Desks: Getting Chronically Absent Students Back to Class Is No Easy Feat

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East Palo Alto Academy, a small charter high school, saw a chronic absenteeism rate of 199 out of 355 students (56 percent) during the 2021-22 school year, according to state data. percent) in 2021-22. In 2021-22, 6.5 In 2021-22, 6.5 Still, the charter high school is better resourced than others.

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OPINION: To solve teacher shortages, let’s open pathways for immigrants so they can become educators and role models

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Today, I am the project director at the Initiative on Immigration and Education at the City University of New York (also known as CUNY-IIE), which produces research and resources that center the strengths of immigrant communities. Enrollment in New York State’s teacher education programs has declined by 53 percent since 2009.

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Education Has a Three-Headed Crisis. Mental Health Is Only Part of It.

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It is now time to update this piece for 2021. In January 2021, 40 percent of adults reported experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety—three times more than the rate in the first half of 2019. Source: A Year in the Life of a Pandemic , April 27, 2021, by Philip Fisher, Joan Lombardi and Nat Kendall-Taylor.

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