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Why Schools Still Struggle to Provide Enough Mental Health Resources for Students

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While the mental health of students remains a top concern of many in the education field, federal data reveals that it’s not all bad news. However, 39 percent of schools reported that lack of access to licensed professionals and mental health funding were major roadblocks to their efforts supporting student mental health.

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Nonprofit News Literacy Project Welcomes Former Educator as CEO, With Plans to Expand

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Fourteen years after its founding and with a misinformation landscape many magnitudes more dire than anyone could’ve predicted, the News Literacy Project will herald in a new CEO this summer, marking a transition in leadership but not a change in direction for the education-focused nonprofit. If we can’t agree on what a fact is.

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When Crisis Happens, Schools Should Handle Students With Care

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After I shared the news and ended the meeting, she drove me to the airport. During the drive, Jenkins used her experience in education, public safety and health care to help me tell my own children, who are 9 and 12 years old, and who both have a sibling-like relationship with my godson. This is more urgent than ever.

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Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’

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Helping students understand these issues can not only help them make better decisions in their own lives, but can lead them to make better decisions as future citizens and leaders on pressing issues like climate change and health care, she argues. Now, the top colleges emphasize that students should demonstrate passion about something.

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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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The year 2021 pushed us all to learn new lessons in unexpected ways, from deciphering public health statistics about vaccines and masks to refreshing our memory for the Greek alphabet thanks to emerging COVID-19 variants. Below is a countdown of the top 10 articles of 2021 as voted by reader interest. Top 10 Countdown 10.

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Discovery Education’s EdTech News Roundup – April 17

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Another week, another wave of big news across education. For this edition of the DE EdTech News Roundup, we’ll cover: EdTech Trends ESSER Funding Insights from Education Leaders ICYMI EdTech Trends Education technology (EdTech) combines teaching and learning strategies with digital tools.

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Using big datasets to find out what affects children’s quality of life

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The study captures important information about social and economic circumstances, attitudes, lifestyle, health, family relationships, and employment.”. Understanding Society interviews parents and carers to learn about their children’s experiences of school and to uncover relationships between schooling and aspects of mental health.