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Middle school coaches can help curb dating violence.
San Francisco parents declare state of emergency over failure to educate black children.
Memphis shifts to universal screening for its gifted program — instead of relying on teacher recommendations — and finds that more students qualify.
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“We are getting services to kids faster and more intentionally than we were before,” Program Manager Jennifer Bronson says of how City Connects is working in Hamilton County, Tenn., home to a socio-economically diverse group of students in Chattanooga and surrounding suburban and rural areas. “We are being deliberate.”
This is a story of how City Connects, which launched in eight county schools last September, is generating data and information that help schools understand students’ needs and meet them.
Because of a community effort called Chattanooga 2.0, the region was already looking at workforce and education challenges. This led to joining By All Means, a program run by the Education Redesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) that helps close educational achievement gaps. Continue reading
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Sleep has a big impact on test scores, especially for boys.
More children on Medicaid will be able to access health services in school.
Fugees Academy, located in both Georgia and Ohio, provides intensive education for children who are immigrants.
Children’s use of anti-depressants jumps by more than 20 percent after school shootings.
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Across the country, there are student opportunity gaps that — the evidence shows — City Connects can help close.
We were reminded of the depth of these gaps late last year, when the U.S. Department of Education released “The Nation’s Report Card.” The report card shares the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, (the NAEP test) which is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics.
And, unfortunately, the NAEP scores are troubling.
“America’s fourth and eighth graders are losing ground in their ability to read literature and academic texts,” the New York Times reports. “Two out of three children did not meet the standards for reading proficiency.” Continue reading
See you in 2020!
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These are some of the things we’ve been reading about:
Social media use is associated with disordered eating patterns.
Courts are protecting the rights of transgender students.
Homelessness makes it tough for New York City students to get an education.
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When City Connects Program Manager Laurie Acker meets with the coordinators she supervises in Minnesota, she routinely asks them a question:
“What services do you need that you don’t have a community partner for yet?”
One common answer is food. Some students come to school hungry, go home hungry, and dread long weekends because their families are grappling with food insecurity. Others hoard the food they receive at lunch.
Community partners help address this kind of problem. They are an essential part of the City Connects model of getting the right services to the right students at the right time, and Acker has worked hard to build these connections.
So when Acker heard about the need for food resources, she reached out to The Sheridan Story, a local nonprofit that fights childhood hunger, and, in 2014, Sheridan Story volunteers began providing food for the weekend at two City Connects schools. Continue reading
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These are some of the things we’ve been reading about:
Special needs students and English language learners have more positive impressions of their schools’ mental health services.
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signs a bill that will invest $1.5 billion in education.
U.S. students’ test scores lag on international exam.
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