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

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Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. Nearly 90 percent of schools reported increased social and emotional support for students during the 2021-22 academic year. The National Center for Education Statistics released its biennial Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S.

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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

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It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district.

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How ‘Climate Anxiety’ Affects Students — and What We Can Do About It

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A Pew Research Center poll from 2021 found that adults in Generation Z were more likely than Americans belonging to older generations to have donated money, contacted an elected official, volunteered or attended a rally to try to help address climate change in the prior year. That can come in many forms. Do what you can with what you can.”

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PROOF POINTS: How a debate over the science of math could reignite the math wars

The Hechinger Report

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. The researchers continued to meet almost every month during 2021 as their campaign gained momentum. They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. Timed tests?

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Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

The Hechinger Report

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. During the 2021-22 school year, the Washington State education ombudsman received nearly 1,200 complaints from parents about schools.

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Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

The Hechinger Report

From September 2020 to April 2021, AJ sat at home, getting on average less than two hours of daily live interaction with teachers. Peter Mosby is principal at Rock Ridge Elementary School in a suburb of Denver. But like any tool, it can also be abused,” he said. L]ike any tool, [threat assessment] can also be abused.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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