“Learned helplessness” is the belief that even with effort, a student will not progress, can resist help, quickly surrender academically and display passive behaviors, said speakers at the recent Council for Exceptional Children’s annual convention, according
School District of Philadelphia (PA) Superintendent Tony Watlington is accelerating a post-pandemic learning recovery in the nation’s 8th largest school district (200,000+ students) with curriculum rollouts, facilities improvements and more agenda action items, according to
“Opportunity youth” get free job training and support through the Youth Employment Services program, according to an article in Mirror Indy. Here’s the challenge: Covid 19 increased the number of young people out of school
If a child believes they are bad, they’ll likely act that way because that’s the role they think they’re supposed to play, writes Dr. George Philhower, the superintendent of Eastern Hancock Schools, a rural district
Results from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are not encouraging, according to article in The 74. The alarming results are consistent with earlier iterations of NAEP and highlight decade-long trends of both
As schools continue to recover from the pandemic, there’s one troubling COVID symptom they can’t seem to shake: record-setting absenteeism, according to an article in The 74. Troubling data are beginning to emerge: In Oakland,
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 10-year data summary trend report notes that 40% of high school students experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness; 20% seriously considered attempting suicide; and almost 10%
Educators and public officials across Baltimore City and Maryland know that kids chronically missing school is a problem. The hard part is coming up with a solution, according to a series of stories on the
When Michele Hillen-Noufer started NorCal Arts, a Sacramento-based arts education organization in 2020, she was hoping to bring theatre’s transformative emotional power to young people, according to an article in EdSource. The organization works with about
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