Next year she hopes to be at college and is looking forward to the freedom. Transcript: STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: More states are banning students from using their phones during school hours. Some individual schools, as well. One of my kids...
“Chronic absenteeism affects disadvantaged students more often, but the rise in chronic absenteeism was an unfortunate tide where all boats rose,” said Nat Malkus, deputy director of education policy studies at AEI. The data show strikingly large differences by race...
“Just being in utero during a highly stressful time had some developmental effects on infants,” Dani Dumitriu, a pediatrician and neuroscientist at Columbia University and chair of an ongoing study on pandemic newborns, told NPR. “They weren’t large effects but...
Their preliminary results were “sobering,” according to a June report by the University of Chicago Education Lab and MDRC, a research organization. The researchers found that tutoring during the 2023-24 school year produced only one or two months’ worth of...
Friendship is a skill set, according to Denworth, and kids don’t automatically arrive with all the tools they need. A healthy friendship, she added, is positive, long-lasting and cooperative with mutual kindness, emotional support and reciprocity. At Martin Luther King...
But Griffith’s stepsister had introduced her to a federal program called Upward Bound. It places high school students in college dorms during the summer, where they can take classes and participate in workshops on preparing for the SAT and financial...
“You’ve got this effort to add these elements without a mechanism with which to vet the new variables, as well as a system for ensuring their proper implementation,” said Cook. “You would almost think that whoever implemented this didn’t know...
“Make sure you’re listening to what they need and tailoring the pep talk to the specific anxiety they have,” Linden says. Let’s say she’s feeling shy about saying her vows in front of everyone. So you might say: Hey, I’ve...
Listen to the latest episode of the MindShift podcast to learn about how students are learning about the broader contributions of Asian Americans and their activism and what that means for civic engagement. Episode Transcript This is a computer-generated transcript....
Reilly managed to slash his chronic absenteeism rate in half to 25 percent this past 2024-25 year. That’s still high. One in four students missed more than 18 days of school a year. But, it’s better. He began by identifying...
