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Jill Biden, education chief to kick off summer learning tour

Jill Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will visit Connecticut, Georgia and Michigan this week to examine summer learning programs that are...

Working at school or nonprofit could erase student loans: silhouette of young woman with graduation cap on

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Work at a school or nonprofit? You could erase student loans

When Melissa Martinez applied to have her student loan debt forgiven more than a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Education told...

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Mental health figures into Pennsylvania’s education funding

Amid a growing population of youth experiencing mental health crises, as well as another spate of mass shootings around the country, Pennsylvania...

Asian-Black activism rekindled: A black woman and an Asian woman pose side by side, against a blank wall of a convention hall.

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Asian-Black activism, going back decades, now is being rekindled

Launched in winter 2019 by a Black woman and an Asian American woman, both 27, People Matter echoes cross-racial collaboration extending back...

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When students bring guns to North Carolina schools

West Charlotte High School had let out only minutes earlier when, hearing gunfire, school officials ordered an immediate lockdown and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police...

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Luring pandemic-impacted youth back to college will take effort, educators say

Colleges and universities have lost nearly 1.3 million students since spring 2020 as youth of color bear the brunt of the pandemic...

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Advocates call for more autism training for crisis hotlines ahead of 988 launch

Research shows people with autism spectrum disorder have a much greater risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Despite this – and despite doctors identifying more...

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New online-only SAT puts students with disabilities at new disadvantage, advocates say

Some young people who are neurodivergent or have learning disabilities, already concerned about what they say are structural biases in the existing...

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Addressing youth substance use through school services and supports

Urban Institute researchers discuss lessons learned from school-based approaches to youth substance use implemented in D.C., Massachusetts, and New Mexico.

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Alabama cites abortion ruling in transgender medication case

Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the...

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Hurricane Maria devastated her home. Now, this teen is helping put survival kits in Florida libraries

Seven months after Nadya Rexach-Rivera celebrated her quinceañera in her beloved Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria upended her life. The catastrophic storm in...

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Families brace for changes to pandemic-era free school meals

The pandemic-era federal aid that made school meals available for free to all public school students — regardless of family income levels...

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Study: Schooling for incarcerated youth is fragmented, inferior

Most of the 50 states have clearly designated which agencies are in charge of hiring teachers for incarcerated juveniles, creating teaching curriculum...

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LGBTQ students would get new protections under Biden plan

The rights of LGBTQ students would become enshrined in federal law and victims of campus sexual assault would gain new protections under...

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After year of violence, US schools try to tame tensions

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first week of school was supposed to mark a triumphant return to classrooms at San Francisco’s Everett...

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Youth prison reform in the COVID era

Researchers at the Urban Institute discuss how three states reduced youth incarceration and implemented reforms through the trying times of the COVID...

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Expanded wheelchair football league launches third season

The Move United-launched league has players and coaches in Birmingham. Ala.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Chicago; Cleveland; Dallas, Los Angeles; Milwaukee; New Orleans, Phoenix;...