Youth Today
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597Active reading: A tutoring program uses movement, balls, sandboxes and more to bridge the literacy gap
A teaching method that makes reading fun gives hope to struggling students and families.
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1.1KTeachers learning what works − and what doesn’t − will get a lot harder without the DOE’s Institute of Education Sciences
The IES advances education by supporting rigorous research and sharing data on student progress.
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697A developmental disability diagnosis can hit hard – but it isn’t a knockout
An evaluation for a developmental disability can feel like a double-edged sword.
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937Stunned education researchers say cuts go beyond DEI, hitting math, literacy
Following Trump research budget purge, school analysts face new world.
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6791 in 5 child care workers is an immigrant. Trump’s deportations and raids have many terrified
Many staff and children aren’t showing up as federal crackdown on immigration ramps up.
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1.0KTop scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’
Research doesn't support academic advantages of placing children with disabilities in general education classrooms.
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827Teen girls are facing an increased risk of suicide − and stress related to sexual identity might be contributing to it
LGBQ teen girls reported much higher rates of thinking about, planning and attempting suicide.
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845The Department of Education told employees to end support for transgender students
This ends programs, contracts and policies failing "to affirm the reality of biological sex.”
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647Severe irritability in children and teens: A new understanding
Kids with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder have explosive outbursts well past toddler age. Why?
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2.6KQ&A: Black kids overdiagnosed with ‘Oppositional Defiant Disorder’
The ‘bad kid’ diagnosis ‘greases the school-to-prison pipeline.’ This doctor offers anti-racist solutions.
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969Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it
The best program to help students with disabilities get jobs is almost a secret.
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732Moms to Trump: We want relief on child care costs
A new national campaign encourages Trump to keep and expand the child tax credit.
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1.2KTeens on social media: Red, blue and purple states are all passing laws to restrict and protect adolescents
It remains to be seen if, and how, the federal government will weigh in.
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1.1KParents have way more influence than they realize in shaping their children’s success
Parents with academically unmotivated and disengaged kids are often at their wits’ end.
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600Parents of premature babies struggle to get help their children are entitled to
Few families with premature babies receive the early intervention services they are eligible for.
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625Trump wants to withhold money from schools teaching ‘discriminatory equity ideology,’ gender identity
Federal law prohibits this. Can this executive order be enforced?
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2.1KTrump’s ‘pause’ on federal funds: It has not been rescinded. Are early learning & nutrition programs in danger?
Programs serving women and children would be hit particularly hard by a funding pause.
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1.4KA dismal report card in math and reading
2024 NAEP test results document large increases in students who lack basic skills.
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2.3KAcross all ages and demographics, test results show Americans are getting dumber
In the last decade, achievement scores have been falling — and gaps have been widening.
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1.2KTrump admin guts school safety committee created to combat mass shootings
The committee functioned as a check on federal government recommendations to solve school violence.
