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...
“We were trying to be everything to every student in a pre-AI world,” Chegg CEO Nathan Schultz says. Several generative AI platforms, including ChatGPT, have free plans. Chegg hopes to reach students who will pay $19.99 a month for tools...
Suicide is complex and influenced by a whole host of risk factors, including untreated mental illness, prolonged stress, isolation and access to lethal means such as firearms and medications. The new report doesn’t delve into the potential causes for the...
Gov. Tim Walz signed the law this year, which requires sites to provide users with the warning label starting in July 2026. Social media companies say they’ll seek changes or try to block enforcement, but supporters say the pop-ups could...
