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The rate of kids dealing with serious mental health issues has been on the rise since the pandemic. But if parents want to help their kids, research suggests they should look at themselves and their own mental health issues.
The shortage of educators and school staffers has reached a crisis level in some Pennsylvania public schools. The state will need to fill thousands of vacancies for teachers, principals and administrative staff by August of 2025 - according to a report from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Billy Hileman, president of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, said there's been a decline in enrollment for teacher education programs at universities in the past decade. ...
By Olivia Sanchez for The Hechinger Report.Broadcast version by Terri Dee for Indiana News Service reporting for The Hechinger Report-Public News Service Collaboration People who read college applications are a lot like detectives. Without having been there for the event (the student's K-12 education and life), they must find clues in documents (high school transcripts and student essays) and eyewitness accounts (letters of recommendation) to solve the case (decide whether a student might be able to thrive at the college). But even with the extensive applications that each student submits, t...
The World Happiness Report is out. Americans have slipped from the top 20. The culprit? Inequality.
I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about and discussing this pivotal time in young people’s lives, and the people, policies, and processes that inform it.