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OPINION: Lonely, left out and isolated post-pandemic, our college students need personal attention

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Fewer than 40 percent of students say they are flourishing, according to the national Healthy Minds Study. Campuses are struggling to provide enough counseling services, due to financial reasons and a shortage of professionals in the field, and the outcome can be dropping out of school or, much worse, the tragedy of lost lives.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. Started in 2015, the Proving Ground program helps school districts leverage data to design, plan, implement and test interventions to improve learning outcomes.

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Being Popular: Why it Consumes Teens and Continues to Affect Adults

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Prinstein notes that “the ability to interact with peers and remain emotionally regulated predicts addiction, dropout rates, relationships issues and even child-rearing ability.” Researchers have found that two groups of teens are most at risk for long-term consequences related to their social status. Help Teens Navigate Social Media.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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Blogs, wikis and social media, on the other hand, are distributed across networks. That’s the only way they’ll be able to study the tools and understand how they’re impacting student outcomes. It’s controlled, top-down, by the institution that bought it; it’s closed to anyone without a login.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

That adds up to a lot of bad reviews passed down to younger siblings and classmates, who consider family and friends the most trustworthy sources about whether and where to go to college, according to a survey by Vox Global, for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, that also combed through social media. “If

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Teachers are first responders to the opioid crisis

The Hechinger Report

When Cruey still has questions, he will glean information through listening to the constant murmur of student gossip in hallways, tracking social media posts and keeping his ear to the ground at church. “My The district has worked hard to improve its academic outcomes, and there certainly have been improvements.

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She''s put together a list of the best artiles on Classroom Management, Reading and Language Arts, STEM, History and Social Studies, and more. Read more about this study here. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts. Check out her list here.

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