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https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2026/05/08/well-being-youth-mental-health/ MS. MARTIN: Thank you so much for having me. MS. STEAD SELLERS: Well, we’re delighted to talk about this important topic, and let’s get back to those numbers I was just mentioning. Forty percent of high school students report…..
Talia Richman5/27/2026 5:30 a.m. EDT Psychologists and social workers are among those in jeopardy as Montgomery County grapples with its budget After a February shooting at Wootton High School, nearly 100 mental health professionals flooded the campus to help traumatized…..
By Katherine Ellison Jan 5th 2025 Washington Post When asked why he didn’t begin writing novels until his 30s, the celebrated Czech author Milan Kundera said he didn’t have the requisite experience when he was younger. “This jerk that I was,…..
By Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist, reporting from Washington Humans may be on the way out. But at least the humanities are back. Or so some of the tech gods tell us. After decades of dismissing liberal arts and humanities studies as useless…..
Liz Bowie5/15/2026 2:10 p.m. EDT The state ranks third for improvement in reading and fifth in math Maryland students made a faster comeback than students in more than 30 states after steep academic declines during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to…..
1. Core Competency Training: Delivering the Trajectory-Based SEL Model Project Change rejects the modern standard of treating communal disease with isolated, individual wellness plans. When the polis—the collective educational environment—is systemically stressed, trying to cure it by fixing individual students…..
Narrative: Need / Problem Statement 1. The Core Community Problem: Geographic and Economic Disparities in SEL Well-Being While Montgomery County, Maryland, is historically recognized as an affluent region, this broad metric masks severe pockets of concentrated poverty, housing instability, and…..
Theoretical Justification: Trajectory-Based SEL Measurement 1. Methodological Framework: Directional Versus Acquisitional Measurement Project Change rejects the traditional, acquisitional paradigm of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) which treats emotional well-being as a finite mass of discrete, linear skills to be systematically accumulated. Human…..
https://edopportunity.org/reports/trends/2025/MD/report_MD_2400480_montgomery-county-public-schools.pdf
Something troubling is happening in U.S. education. Almost everywhere in America, students are performing worse than their peers were 10 years ago, according to new, district-level test score data released Wednesday by the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford. Compared with a decade…..