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New research suggests that some teachers improve students’ attendance.
Boston’s School Committee votes to eliminate middle schools.
The suicide rate among adolescents is at its highest point since 2000.
Michigan’s teachers are not as diverse as the state’s students.
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State leaders in Ohio see City Connects as a model that could be expanded.
A simple change to address absenteeism.
Holding parents accountable for their children’s bullying.
In the United States, 3 million students do not have Internet service at home.
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A survey of parents finds that many children experience cyberbullying.
Kentucky expands school-based physical and mental health services.
Rural California tackles chronic absenteeism.
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Harvard’s Education Redesign Lab looks at personalized success plans and how Salem, Mass., has been working with City Connects to implement these plans for students.
Sports help adolescents overcome childhood trauma.
States are addressing the needs of youth in foster care.
U.S. children are better off today than they were in 2000.
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Ohio’s Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted visits a City Connects program in Dayton.
Educators and policymakers should pay more attention to how toxic stress affects students.
Across the country, governors have called for investing nearly $3 billion in early childhood education.
States and school districts are helping increasing numbers of homeless students.
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It’s budget season in Ohio, and last week, Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted and other state officials, including Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria, visited Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School in Dayton to see City Connects in action.
Husted is encouraging his state to increase its investment in students’ success.
“We believe that this is a replicable model that can be used in public schools and other schools across the state,” Husted tells WHIO Television. “And we want the new money that’s being put into the budget to serve these students to go to programs like this.”
“The visit comes as legislators are considering a new $550 million allocation in the state budget to provide similar ‘wraparound services’ to Ohio schools,” the Dayton Daily News reports. “That budget has already passed the Ohio House, and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted advocated for the plan Friday.” Continue reading
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A new study finds that the benefits of preschool cross generations.
Colorado legislators invest in more mental health care for children.
A school-based legal clinic addresses the needs of Los Angeles’ immigrant families.
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“To the children whom our school system and our society have failed for far too long.”
That’s the sobering dedication that co-authors Elaine Weiss and Paul Reville chose for their new book, “Broader, Bolder, Better: How Schools and Communities Help Students Overcome the Disadvantages of Poverty.”
In this book, Weiss and Reville call on schools and communities to stop failing by creating “systems of integrated student supports (ISS) for all children.”
The two authors say it is crucial to create ISS systems that support the whole child — like City Connects and others in the field — because of the nation’s history of mediocre policy achievements.
“Decades of education reform efforts have yielded modest if any improvements in most places where poverty is present,” they write. “To be sure, there are outliers, schools and individuals defying the odds, but on average, we still have an iron-clad correlation between socioeconomic status and education achievement and attainment.” Continue reading
