Education Archive
Four California counties were recognized at the California Foster Youth Education Summit for their efforts to help foster youth get financial aid to attend college, as part of the inaugural... By Sara Tiano This post California Counties Rewarded for Signing …
Julie Kurtz, co-director, trauma-informed practices in early childhood education, WestEd Center for Child & Family Studies/photo by Laurie Udesky A hug may be comforting to many children, but for a child who has experienced trauma, it may not feel safe. …
Universities are under fire from both sides of politics. The right complain they fail to meet the needs of employers. The left argue they legitimise the ‘meritocracy’ and hence fuel inequality. Both arguments can be co-opted by governments intent on …
#Marchforourlives has taken over national headlines, as well it should. This student driven movement, that not only addresses one of the largest public health issues of our time, but also does so in such an inclusive fashion that civil rights …
Earlier this month, a Rhode Island state senator introduced a bill that would compel the state’s foster care agency to split the cost of transporting foster youth to school with... By Daniel Heimpel This post Scarcity Pits Education Against Foster …
My mother was a special education public school teacher in Prince George’s county Maryland for 36 years. It required a fervent, unimaginable patience. It required a sense of humor. It required empathy. It didn’t require combat training.
In the wake of President Trump’s call for increased attention to workforce development during the State of the Union address, the Urban Alliance released a white paper with recommendations focused... By Christie Renick This post Trump Calls for More Workforce …
Danielle DeMaison woke before sunrise one foggy morning last April and loaded her two daughters into her 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. Even though the cornstalk-lined roads around her little hamlet of... By Michael Fitzgerald This post New York Struggles to Meet …
A national study conducted by researchers at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago found that one in 10 young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 experienced some... By Guest Writer This post Report Finds Youth Homelessness on …
FORT MYERS, FL. – Representatives from the Lee County NAACP and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) met with Lee County School Superintendent Dr. Greg Adkins on December 6 to discuss racial equity concerns. The NAACP filed a …
