Innovations in Getting Indianapolis Students to Class
For many schools, one of the biggest problems occurs before classes even begin. Busing has become a conundrum that tests districts every morning. While driver shortages and rising costs for buses and...
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New Law Center to Fight Illegal Family Separation by NYC Child Welfare Agencies
In New York City and across the U.S., David Shalleck-Klein believes child welfare agencies routinely violate the Constitution by carrying out unlawful searches and family separations — with disastrous...
View ArticleRestorative Justice Solutions for Youth Are Growing Abroad, Can They Become...
The Positive Impact Circle at Piedmont Mediation in Statesville, N.C. starts first with an icebreaker. Tonight, each participant describes how they are feeling using a weather word. At least three...
View ArticleMore Women in STEM: How an Innovative Nonprofit Is Helping People Change Careers
In January 2020, Kelly Gilbert felt as if her life was at a standstill. The new mom was suffering from postpartum depression. She had just resigned from her security job of seven years, unable to take...
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Young Advocates Take the Lead to Curb Campus Suicide
When the campus alert system at the University of California at Los Angeles notified students of a possible shooter this February and directed them to shelter in place, senior Meera Varma found...
View ArticleFor Students in Juvenile Detention, School Doesn’t Stop. These Teachers Won’t...
The half hour before class is one of the most important times of the day for teacher David Beatty. He picks current events to discuss with his high school students – on a recent Monday morning, it’s...
View ArticleA Cry for Help from Teen Boys in Austin is Answered
Life lines in Austin: Combatting the teen mental health crisis — After two years of fear and isolation among teens across the country, suicide attempts among adolescents are up along with substance...
View ArticleRemembering How to Be Friends: Amid COVID Isolation, One School Is Using...
Life lines in Austin: Combatting the teen mental health crisis — After two years of fear and isolation among teens across the country, suicide attempts among adolescents are up along with substance...
View ArticleAs Mental Health Crisis Rages, Michigan Schools Work to Boost Kids’ Connection
This article was originally published in MindSite News. The bell rang a little after a gloomy dawn. As a trickle of A.P. Spanish students settled into their wooden desks, teacher Zachary Daniels...
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Short on Teachers, Michigan Schools Try to Grow Their Own
This article was originally published in Chalkbeat Detroit.Logan Welch, 18, sat in the back of a high school English class typing on his laptop, but he wasn’t taking notes on the poem like everyone...
View ArticleHow Promise Programs Help with College Costs & Aim to Reshape Communities
This article was originally published in Prism. Wednesdays were usually Justin Alamo’s favorite day of the week. As a third-grader at Conte West Hills Magnet School in New Haven, Connecticut, Alamo...
View ArticlePower of Place: Educator Helps Literature Teachers Link Students to Rural Roots
This article was originally published in The Daily Yonder. When education students from Kentucky’s Morehead State University entered a virtual classroom with guest lecturer Chea Parton to discuss rural...
View ArticlePurdue’s Tuition Freeze at Year 10: Most Students Graduate Debt-Free
This article was originally published in The Christian Science Monitor. President Joe Biden announced last month the government will forgive $10,000 in debt for college loan borrowers earning under...
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Free School Meals Helped Kids for 2 Years. This Fall, Those Lunches Won’t Return
This article was originally published in The 19th News. The healthiest meal students typically receive during the day isn’t at their dining room table — it’s in their school cafeteria. That finding...
View ArticleSupporting Students: What’s Next for Mental Health
This article was originally published in The Christian Science Monitor. Toyin Anderson is a mom looking for solutions to what she sees as a crisis of youth crying out for help with their mental health....
View ArticleSchool on Wheels Delivers Tutoring – and Hope – for Homeless Students
This article was originally published in The Christian Science Monitor. The little girl was 6 years old, and life hadn’t been kind to her. When Catherine Meek walked into a homeless shelter for their...
View ArticleIn Baltimore, Teaching STEM Through Dirt Bikes
This article was originally published in Next City. On a quiet side street tucked back in an industrial section of West Baltimore, Damon Ray Harrison revs the engine of his red dirt bike. He sits...
View ArticleHow to Help Young Kids: Give Their Parents Cash
This article was originally published in The Hechinger Report. AUSTIN, Texas — By his mid-20s, Tommy Andrade was tired of working dead-end jobs. With a young child at home, he realized he needed more...
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A New Playbook to Recruit Tutors: Tap Teachers in Training
Updated, Jan. 13 It’s 9:05 a.m. at Hendley Elementary School in southeast Washington, D.C. when Isabel Chae meets her first tutee of the day. The American University student pulls the first grader,...
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Bucking Trends, Louisiana Sees a Small, Promising Boost In Its Teacher Supply
Recently, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley stood before lawmakers in Baton Rouge and delivered some modest good news in hopes that the Legislature would continue to fund...
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Momentum Builds for Helping Students Adapt to College by Nixing Freshman Grades
This article was originally published in The Hechinger Report. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college. “I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn...
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Often Unseen, Bus Drivers Can Help Schools Find And Support Homeless Students
Gregory Pierce was driving his bus route in Sheffield, Vermont one January morning when a student got on and told him her classmate had moved in down the road with her grandmother after the family’s...
View ArticleNew Nonprofit Teaches Philly Students CTE Skills — and Pays Them for Their Work
Jamar Kellam’s dream was to become a video game developer. During the first semester of his junior year, the Philadelphia high schooler had his plan for achieving that goal already set: attend LaSalle...
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Dallas ISD’s Opt-Out Policy Dramatically Boosts Diversity in Its Honors Classes
It was a barrier that kept many Dallas Independent School District students from taking courses that reflected their potential: Those who wanted to join honors classes in the sixth, seventh and eighth...
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Nearly 100 Educators Meet to Blunt Impact of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech
Updated, Oct. 28 Correction appended Sept. 30 Educators and advocates from across the country — many of whom say they have already seen the effects of anti-immigrant political rhetoric on their...
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