Youth Today
All posts tagged "Education and Training"
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2.4KNewsTeens 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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1.4K► ReportsBlack minds matter: Building bright black futures
This report explores whether or not California is truly doing right by Black students.
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1.7KNewsThe 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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1.7KNewsEducation 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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1.5KNews‘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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1.5KNewsActive 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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2.2KOpinionTeachers 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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2.0KNewsStunned education researchers say cuts go beyond DEI, hitting math, literacy
Following Trump research budget purge, school analysts face new world.
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2.0KNewsThe 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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1.5K► ReportsCollege student access to sexual and reproductive health care
A federal report discusses the access college students have to sexual/reproductive healthcare on campus.
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2.7KNewsHundreds 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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3.1KOpinionParents 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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1.3KNewsTrump 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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2.9KNewsTrump’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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5.2KNewsA dismal report card in math and reading
2024 NAEP test results document large increases in students who lack basic skills.
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9.7KNewsAcross 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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2.3KNewsTrump admin guts school safety committee created to combat mass shootings
The committee functioned as a check on federal government recommendations to solve school violence.
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2.3KNewsWriting notes instead of typing pits scholars against each other
A widely cited neuroscience study claims handwriting notes improves learning. Is the research valid?
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2.3KNews9 education storylines to watch as Trump returns to the White House
How could President Trump's actions on these key issues change education in America's future?
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4.2KNewsQ&A: How a child becomes bilingual — and what can be done to help them get there
Q&A with developmental psychologist and language scientist Adriana Weisleder Kids from immigrant backgrounds in the US often struggle to develop fluency in...
