Friendship is a skill set, according to Denworth, and kids don’t automatically arrive with all the tools they need. A healthy friendship, she added, is positive, long-lasting and cooperative with mutual kindness, emotional support and reciprocity. At Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, restorative justice counselor Chau Tran tells students early in the…
Their preliminary results were “sobering,” according to a June report by the University of Chicago Education Lab and MDRC, a research organization. The researchers found that tutoring during the 2023-24 school year produced only one or two months’ worth of extra learning in reading or math — a tiny fraction of what the pre-pandemic research…
“Just being in utero during a highly stressful time had some developmental effects on infants,” Dani Dumitriu, a pediatrician and neuroscientist at Columbia University and chair of an ongoing study on pandemic newborns, told NPR. “They weren’t large effects but that was a very worrisome sign given that so many women gave birth during that…
But Griffith’s stepsister had introduced her to a federal program called Upward Bound. It places high school students in college dorms during the summer, where they can take classes and participate in workshops on preparing for the SAT and financial literacy. During the school year, students get tutoring and work on what are called “individual…
“You’ve got this effort to add these elements without a mechanism with which to vet the new variables, as well as a system for ensuring their proper implementation,” said Cook. “You would almost think that whoever implemented this didn’t know what they were doing.” Cook has helped advise the Education Department on the IPEDS data…
“Make sure you’re listening to what they need and tailoring the pep talk to the specific anxiety they have,” Linden says. Let’s say she’s feeling shy about saying her vows in front of everyone. So you might say: Hey, I’ve read your vows, and they are so beautiful. The groom is going to love them,…
Listen to the latest episode of the MindShift podcast to learn about how students are learning about the broader contributions of Asian Americans and their activism and what that means for civic engagement. Episode Transcript This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. Ki Sung: Welcome to the…
Reilly managed to slash his chronic absenteeism rate in half to 25 percent this past 2024-25 year. That’s still high. One in four students missed more than 18 days of school a year. But, it’s better. He began by identifying 150 kids who were just over the threshold for chronic absenteeism, those who missed between…
“We were trying to be everything to every student in a pre-AI world,” Chegg CEO Nathan Schultz says. Several generative AI platforms, including ChatGPT, have free plans. Chegg hopes to reach students who will pay $19.99 a month for tools that encourage long-term use and goal setting. “If you think about the fitness world, those…
Suicide is complex and influenced by a whole host of risk factors, including untreated mental illness, prolonged stress, isolation and access to lethal means such as firearms and medications. The new report doesn’t delve into the potential causes for the improvement in teens in recent years. But one reason might be that more teens are…
