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As more youth struggle with behavior and traditional supports fall short, clinicians are partnering with lawyers to help

The Hechinger Report

Though the concept of medical-legal partnerships has existed since the 1990s, the Yale partnership, launched in November 2020, is the first in the nation focused exclusively on children’s behavioral health. A recent survey of U.S. Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6

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PROOF POINTS: New poll points to college and career benefits of Greek life despite criticism

The Hechinger Report

Amid the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020, calls to Abolish Greek Life gathered momentum. In the poll, Gallup administered online surveys to 10,000 adults across the country who graduated college with a bachelor’s degree in the past 15 years. Research funded by fraternity and sorority advocacy groups has been more positive.

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Survey Shows Big Remote Learning Gaps For Low-Income And Special Needs Children

MindShift

students are accessing remote learning as little as once a week or less, according to a new survey from ParentsTogether, an advocacy group. By contrast, for families making more than $100,000 a year, 83% of kids are doing distance learning every day, with the majority engaged over two hours a day, the survey found.

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Why Schools Still Struggle to Provide Enough Mental Health Resources for Students

Edsurge

It uses survey responses from principals of nearly 2,700 P-12 schools to take the pulse of myriad issues that affect students and how schools operate. Just as the scramble to spin up remote learning shined a light on school inequities in 2020, Gilmore says mental health resources — or the lack thereof — continues that now.

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Special education students need a whole child approach

eSchool News

In early 2020, 7.3 In October 2020, a little more than two- thirds of K-12 principals estimated that their students with disabilities would perform somewhat or much lower than they had before the pandemic.

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It’s Time to Take College Student Hunger and Homelessness Seriously

Edsurge

Through advocacy on campuses and in communities and ongoing state and federal investment in the real cost of higher education—including housing, food and other supports—we can and should make a firm commitment to students who are doing everything they can to become economically self-sufficient. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

Edsurge

They outlined key factors that can predict non-submission, using data students put into their Common App profiles coupled with community indicators from the American Community Survey administered by the U.S. The Hope Center regularly conducts surveys assessing students’ basic needs. Department of Education.

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