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Montgomery audit finds school system lacking clear approach to anti-racism
By Nicole Asbury October 11, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. EDT Washington Post Students of color in Montgomery County have a less satisfactory experience within the school system compared to their White peers, according to results of a months-long audit released Tuesday. The results proved…..
Meeting the Mental Health Challenge in School and at Home
By Eilene Zimmerman NYT Oct 6th 2022 From kindergarten through college, educators are experimenting with ways to ease the stress students are facing — not only from the pandemic, but from life itself. Last year, Leticia Guerrero-Castaneda’s 11-year-old son, Isaiah, was struggling. He was in…..
Living In White Spaces: Suburbia’s Hidden Histories
By David S. Rotenstein from the Metropole THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE URBAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION In 2009 I learned about one African American woman who briefly lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, a Washington, DC, suburb. She worked for a white physician’s family. Lucille Walker’s…..
More states are allowing children to take mental health days
More states are allowing children to take mental health days By Andrea Atkins October 2, 2022 at 7:24 a.m. EDT Washington Post With child mental health problems on the rise in the past few years, a growing number of states have…..
Experts say schools could recover pandemic losses by 2028. What then?
Doing better than before the pandemic would require more effort than we seem capable of giving Perspective by Jay Mathews Washington Post Oct 2nd 2022 When will the U.S. education system return to the learning levels of 2019? One headline summed up the problem this way:…..
Student absenteeism skyrocketed in the pandemic as test scores plunged
The rate of missing students appears to have doubled By Donna St. George Washington Post September 29th 2022 Chronic absenteeism in public schools surged during the pandemic, which experts say helps explain a historic plunge in student test scores. At least 10.1 million students were chronically…..
National survey: Students’ feelings about high school are mostly negative
By Brita Bellijanuary 30, 2020 in Yale News Ask a high school student how he or she typically feels at school, and the answer you’ll likely hear is “tired,” closely followed by “stressed” and “bored.” In a nationwide survey of…..
Wes Moore wants Md. students to do a year of service after graduating
Ovetta Wiggins Washington Post Sep 24th 2022 Maryland gubernatorial hopeful Wes Moore (D) wants to create a new rite of passage to adulthood for high school graduates: a year of public service. The idea of having young Americans spend a year providing service in their communities has…..
Do you think our schools are worse than ever? You’re wrong.
Perspective by Jay Mathews Washington Post Sep 25th 2022 Pandemic was bad, but last half century shows steady improvement, particularly in math Pessimism about American public schools runs deep, particularly with the latest federal sampling tests showing a sharp drop in achievement among 9-year-olds because of…..