Tag: Student

July 10, 2024

All of the Alabama State Department of Education’s data has been restored using clean backups following last month’s cyberattack. The department still doesn’t know what specific information was compromised, and it is working with the FBI and other experts to […]

June 10, 2024

In places such as Australia, the UK, and other European countries, strict laws are already in effect to restrict the collection of personal data and the distribution of digital content involving students, to respect those students’ privacy and protect them from harm. […]

May 10, 2024

Schools are reporting higher staffing needs overall, including a dearth of mental health staff specifically, and lower capacity to effectively provide mental health services at a time when emergency pandemic relief is winding down. The nationally representative data showing these […]

May 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. During one of the sessions, a seasoned teacher’s candid remarks struck a chord. He explicitly stated, “I know that […]

April 22, 2024

The pandemic shined a light on the mental health crisis facing our students–but student well-being is not a new phenomenon. According to CDC data from 2009-2019, 1 out of 5 adolescents aged 12 to 17 reported having experienced at least […]

April 4, 2024

The National Center for Education Statistics released its findings from the school survey on crime and safety: 2021-2022 and reported that bullying occurs at least once a week in 28 percent of middle schools. Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at […]

February 20, 2024

Global edtech leader Discovery Education today announced the addition of new games, interactives, career resources and more to its award-winning K-12 learning platform, Discove ry Education Experience. This exciting new content nurtures student curiosity and supports educators’ efforts to engage […]

January 19, 2024

It goes without saying that improving student learning and helping students achieve their learning goals have always been priorities for classroom teachers and educators. Today, pandemic-related learning loss is still a very real concern for educators, and student learning is […]

January 18, 2024

In a livestreamed event on Wednesday alongside governors, state education superintendents and the White House domestic policy advisor, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona called this “a moment of truth in education in our country” with both “big challenges” and “immense […]

January 16, 2024

When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. And that’s true even when instructors force students to put away their smartphones. That’s what Georgetown University professor Jeanine Turner found in her research about how tech […]

November 21, 2023

Campuses have long been hotbeds of debate, protest and political tensions, but few issues have been as vehemently contested in recent years as conflicts related to Israel and Palestine. It is no surprise, then, that as the Israel-Hamas conflict has […]

November 15, 2023

Teachers use a variety of methods to assess mastery of a topic. We use observations, quick formative assessments, longer summative assessments, and long-term benchmark assessments. The problem is that these assessments come in a variety of ways, depending on where […]

October 3, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court opted not to take up a case challenging the expansion of a visa program that lets international students in STEM fields stay in the country longer after graduation to pursue employment, the court announced on Monday. […]

August 11, 2023

As an educator and leader who grades holistically, it becomes important to consider how to create well rounded assessments that offer students myriad different opportunities to demonstrate their learning. Providing students with authentic and varied assessment opportunities helps educators gather […]

July 6, 2023

In the 2022-23 school years, universal school meal waivers were no longer available, having ended — much to the consternation of child hunger advocates — in fall 2022 as the pandemic waned. Although operational flexibilities were available to address other […]

May 9, 2023

Generation Hope, an organization focused on supporting parenting students, is launching a new certification to identify and reward colleges, universities and nonprofits actively supporting students with children. The three-year certification, called the FamilyU Seal, is open to two-year and four-year […]

May 1, 2023

Almost half of states saw legislation introduced in the first three months of 2023 that would regulate student pronoun usage in schools, according to a count by the National Conference of State Legislatures. As of April 6, there had been […]

April 28, 2023

The data is clear: Our students are in the midst of a mental health crisis. A survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that one in three high school students experienced poor mental health during the pandemic, […]

April 27, 2023

Educators participating in a recent survey overwhelmingly believe that the Covid pandemic has increased student mental health needs–and in many instances, mental health issues are the biggest obstacle to school safety. These latest statistics are found in the 2023 School […]

April 13, 2023

It seems hard to believe, but the pandemic in the U.S. started three years ago. With all the changes COVID-19 brought to schools, perhaps the one that most people forget is how the virus altered the delivery of education. While […]