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All in Education
Inside a small, cluttered office at the high-poverty Howard School here, college counselor Nicholas Siler wields a powerful software tool that greatly boosts the odds the students he counsels will successfully complete college.
Former NBA player Jalen Rose, a member of Michigan’s famed Fab Five, has been an influential figure both on and off the court. However, nowadays, when Rose isn’t co-hosting Get Up!, ESPN’s morning sports talk show, or Jalen & Jacoby, a national sports radio show on ESPN Radio, or providing his analysis on NBA Countdown, he’s also using his resources to help further educational opportunities for students in Detroit at the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy.
The number of arrests at city schools plummeted during the first months of the school year in the wake of recent reforms that discouraged arrests for more minor offenses, new data shows.
NYPD officers made fewer than 150 arrests in city schools between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019 — about half the number of arrests cops made during the same months the previous year. The number of court summonses for schoolkids fell even more dramatically — from 124 in the last quarter of 2018 to 51 in 2019, a drop of 59%.
The unlikely partners — a former slave and a first-generation Jewish American from Chicago, a Northerner whose company was known for shipping home-building kits through the mail — provided funding, blueprints and guidance that enabled black communities in 15 states to build inviting, permanent places for their children to learn.
A state requirement that high school students take classes in health and physical fitness might soon vanish in many Michigan schools.
A Republican-sponsored package that loosens high school graduation requirements — most prominently by making Algebra II optional — also includes opt-outs for health and gym.
Now the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Brackett runs a social-emotional training program, RULER, that has taught educators and students in more than 2,000 schools what it means to understand and manage their emotions. RULER is now being used by the largest school district in the country, New York City, with its 1.1 million students, and Brackett is helping lead Connecticut’s effort to have the first emotionally intelligent statewide education system.
Throughout this eventful year, staff at The 74 have been inspired by the talented, dedicated, caring teachers we’ve had the privilege of writing about. There’s the Colorado math instructor who became a foster father to a student so the boy could get a kidney transplant. A mentor-mentee pair in the South Bronx with a year-long focus on improving performance, both among students and at the front of the classroom. Three survivors of the Columbine High School massacre who, as teachers, have borne witness to the grim transformation of their schools, spurred by gun violence. A Teacher of the Year who helps his students at a Virginia juvenile justice center reclaim their lives even as he teaches history.
Denver’s after-school programs have been a major beneficiary of the city’s special retail marijuana sales tax. As efforts to legalize marijuana spread, after-school leaders in dozens of cities are taking this lesson home.
Children are being locked away, alone and terrified. Often, it’s against the law.
In 1993, a lawyer at the Center for Children’s Advocacy brought a lawsuit challenging, among other things, the conditions of confinement at the state’s juvenile detention centers. Four years later, the court approved an agreement that resulted in the Emily J. Consent Decree, part of which required the state to retool its educational services for juvenile detainees.
Now, after years of studies showing the ways the justice system can affect young people’s education in Connecticut, officials are still grappling with how to improve educational services for kids in the justice system.
Attending the University of Michigan provides big advantages for low-income Michigan students. But these students also can feel apart at a school where the average student comes from families with annual incomes over $150,000.
As educational research increasingly highlights the role that trauma plays in causing challenging student behaviors and in influencing teachers’ responses to them, more schools are adopting what’s known as trauma-informed practices to help teachers better respond to their students’ needs.
Michigan high school students would no longer be required to take Algebra 2 to earn a diploma under a bill introduced again this term in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is pushing an ambitious revamp of Michigan’s college scholarship program. Administrative officials are working out details, and more changes likely would be at least debated in the Republican-led Legislature, which may or may not approve the proposal.
As Black History Month unfolds this month and schools ramp up teaching about the subject, there’s still plenty of disagreement across the state and nation about how best to teach the subject. Should African-American history lessons focus on the struggles such as slavery and the civil rights movement but not also give greater attention to the accomplishments of African Americans?
Teachers and administrators have come to realize that a student’s range of experiences — their home life, their neighborhood and the overall atmosphere of the school — has an outsized impact on their behavior in class. Research shows that by gaining insight into these experiences and building stronger relationships with students, educators can address a number of behaviors without having to resort to suspensions and other punitive methods of discipline.
Kenwood Elementary in Cadillac is proving that low-income students can learn to read as well as their wealthier classmates. Can the rest of Michigan learn the same lesson?
A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked.
