Youth Today
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1.3KAfter outcry, Education Department walks back diversity guidance
DOE's new position is very different from what they put out two weeks ago.
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2.2KTeens with disabilities were getting help with life after high school. Then DOGE started cutting.
The Education Department has been a prime target of DOGE with chaotic cost-cutting initiatives.
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1.3KMeet Youth Today’s new publisher
Knowledge to Power Catalysts is the new publisher for Youth Today.
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1.6KThe building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren’t always getting
Understanding how numbers work is as important to math as phonics is to reading.
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6.7K‘Bereavement Deserts’: Amid a rise in parental deaths, grief in children is often overlooked
‘My son needed something I couldn’t give.’ Surviving parents seek grief support for kids.
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1.6KEducation groups push back against feared cuts to school-based Medicaid
For decades Medicaid has paid for services in schools for low-income students.
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1.4KSome incarcerated youths will get health care after release under new law
The goal is to help prevent them from developing a health crisis or reoffending.
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1.5K‘Golden ticket to job security’: Trade union partnerships hold promise for high school students
For trade unions and CTE programs, new collaboration may be key to survival.
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1.4KHow Medicaid helps mothers, caregivers and children
Medicaid covers nearly half of all births and health of all children in America.
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1.4KActive 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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1.4KA 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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1.9KStunned education researchers say cuts go beyond DEI, hitting math, literacy
Following Trump research budget purge, school analysts face new world.
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1.5K1 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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3.8KTop 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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2.0KThe 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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2.6KSevere 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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5.0KQ&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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2.5KHundreds 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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1.1KMoms 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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6.0KTeens 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.
