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Racism can affect young children’s mental health.
Lack of Internet access makes it tough for some teenagers to do homework.
New York City hires 100 coordinators to work with the city’s growing population of homeless students.
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Education Week explores how principals manage job pressure.
Federal legislation funds grants to help schools with the opioid crisis.
Boston College’s Center for Optimized Student Support is building a statewide infrastructure of integrated student support.
Students who attend more “advantaged” schools do better on international exams.
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A Cape Cod school district is using social emotional learning assessments.
A federal spending bill boosts funding for early childhood education.
California fights preschool expulsions with mental health services.
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Are students getting too much homework — or too little?
All 50 states as well as Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., have turned in their plans for ESSA (the Every Student Succeeds Act).
San Antonio is integrating its schools by income.
Social/emotional learning in Chicago.
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Students who attend City Connects elementary schools have lower high school dropout rates than students who do not.
The Trump administration invests $71.5 billion in the U.S. Department of Education.
Trauma-informed schools and clinics help students cope with disasters and toxic stress.
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Providing mentors for new teachers helps boost their students’ math scores.
A bill in Congress would address the shortage of teachers who work with English language learners.
In San Antonio, Tex., school Superintendent Pedro Martinez is conducting a radical school integration experiment.
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Summer camps raise reading levels for Tennessee children.
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos calls for more civics education.
National poverty rate rises among young children, especially children of color.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is investing $2 billion to help homeless families and develop new preschool programs.
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Salem, Mass., is using the City Connects model to close achievement gaps in all of the city’s pre-K-8 schools.
The Center for American Progress creates early learning fact sheets for all 50 states.
Census figures show small declines in the poverty rate.
How some school districts are helping foster children thrive.
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