How Learning Emotional Skills Can Help Boys Become Men
How Learning Emotional Skills Can Help Boys Become Men
With kids spending more waking hours on screens than ever, here’s what parents need to worry about
With kids spending more waking hours on screens than ever, should parents be concerned? Children will probably be OK, especially if their families make sure this elevated level of screen time doesn't turn into a long-term habit.
School reopenings: what can the US learn from other countries’ experiences?
What can the US learn from other countries' experiences as they plan to reopen schools?
Analysis: Mapping Students’ Support Networks Is Key to Supporting Their Remote Learning Success. How Schools Can Make That Happen
A web of positive relationships is the foundation of healthy youth development. Having a mentor, tutor, parent or neighbor who is physically present is a proven, critical ingredient to successful distance learning
Interactive: Roadmaps to Reopening — States’ Guidance to Schools on Meals, Masks, Handwashing and More
Meals, classrooms, masks, buses, temp checks, handwashing — interactive maps show what each state wants its schools to do when they reopen in the fall
Kids’ school schedules have never matched parents’ work obligations and the pandemic is making things worse
For US parents, the health, economic and social crisis the COVID-19 pandemic brought about is compounded by the difficult if not impossible task of working, caring for and educating kids.
Analysis: Temperature Checks, School Schedules, Masks — What Do States Want Districts to Do? We’ve Analyzed the Plans. Here’s What We’ve Found
As the issue of how to reopen school becomes increasingly politicized, states' responses will continue to evolve. But one thing is clear: They are leaving big decisions — on class schedules, masks, temperature checks — to the districts
5 Questions To Gauge Kids’ Emotional Intelligence — And Help Them Boost It
How parents can gauge and improve the emotional intelligence of their children
Study finds 5 straight years of summer learning loss
A new study has found that more than half of students experienced learning loss every summer between grades 1 and 6. And these students lost an average of 39% of the learning they gained during the school year. Will COVID-19 make it even worse?
Analysis: Districts Are Calling the Shots During COVID Shutdowns. So Why Hold Schools Alone Accountable for Student Learning?
Districts control factors, like access to technology and decisions about school calendars and time, that determine whether students can learn during the pandemic. Meaning most of the country is holding the wrong entity — schools — accountable