Education

Learn about mental health challenges in the home for all generations and what you can do. Drawing on his years as a public service employee and a private therapist, Jackie St. Louis brings…

During this pandemic, families have been dealing with numerous sources of stress–including unemployment, strains on financial resources, and higher levels of anxiety and depression from living in a time of…

When COVID-19 arrived last year, Phoenix, like cities around the world, faced devastating health and economic consequences. As businesses temporarily closed and social distancing requirements were implemented to save lives,…

In April 2020, Vincent Matthews needed to know how to safely reopen schools, and fast. The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) superintendent, like his peers across the United States,…

Typically, we perceive the sole actors of the education equation to be teachers and students, whether the students are children in elementary schools or young people in high school and…

When schools shuttered suddenly more than a year ago, teachers and staff scrambled to recreate their school communities as best they could in a virtual environment. And while teaching and…

With 258 million children out of school and 617 million children and adolescents in school but not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and math, we are rapidly running out…

Part Two of a two-part series. Read Part One. Youth unemployment rates, which have steadily increased over the past decade, indicate that work has become increasingly difficult to come by…

The federal government has released its first, long-awaited snapshot of schooling during the pandemic. A newly released federal survey shows that a huge swath of American school children — particularly…

State tax appropriations for higher education fell 1.8% in fiscal 2021, but the losses were uneven among states and concentrated in the two-year sector, according to an analysis from the State…

A new report funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation explores how workforce development organizations build quality work-based learning opportunities for youth and young adults. Unpacking the Work of Work-Based…

Student engagement is key to long-term success. Students who are engaged have higher skill development, achievement, and learning, and student engagement is the primary theoretical model for understanding dropout rates and…