Big Picture

Kalyn Belsha and Sarah Darville, Chalkbeat | The Biden administration proposed more than doubling funding for the Title I program in a budget plan Friday — a move that would send billions to high-poverty schools. Chalkbeat: Biden proposes doubling Title ...
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Laura Olson, Ohio Capital Journal | WASHINGTON — The Biden administration released a key portion of its budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year Friday, calling for increasing money for schools, public health programs, cancer research and other discretionary programs ...
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Caitlin Elsaesser, University of Connecticut | The deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January exposed the power of social media to influence real-world behavior and incite violence. But many adolescents, who spend more time on social media than all ...
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Debbie Holmes, WOSU | Some students from the most disadvantaged families may remain behind academically from those who are well-off, but a new book finds that schools in lower-income areas are doing their part to improve results. WOSU: Ohio State ...
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Naaz Modan, K-12 Dive | A majority of educators, school staff and childcare workers have received at least one shot of the available COVID-19 vaccines, according to surveys from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Federation ...
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Kevin Mahnken, The 74 | As legislation moves through statehouses around the country, students are facing an increasingly divided picture of athletic eligibility. ‘It’s So Hard’: As Trans Bans Spread, Experts Weigh How to Balance Fairness and Inclusion in High ...
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Naaz Modan, K-12 Dive | The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday it plans to launch a comprehensive review of Title IX regulations, including amendments issued under the Trump administration, carrying out a March 8 executive order from President Joe ...
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Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post | The changing demographics of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, are prompting a radical shift in testing strategies to prioritize asymptomatic children and teens. The Washington Post: Are youth sports an ...
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Jonathan Ponciano, Forbes | Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member of the White House coronavirus advisory board, said on Sunday that the U.S. will face "major challenges" in battling the pandemic before summertime, warning the U.K. coronavirus strain infects children more ...
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Colleen Long, AP News | Students who were making plans to attack schools showed the same types of troubled histories as those who carried them out. They were badly bullied, often suffered from depression with stress at home and exhibited ...
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Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report | Summer school may seem like a common sense way to help children make up for the months of lost school time during the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s just one problem. Research studies done before the ...
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Ellen Hine, Cincinnati Enquirer | For a lot of young people, the concepts of adulthood and having a job are tangled up in one another. A real job means that they're self-sufficient, that they're responsible for taking care of themselves and ...
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Alisha Haridasani Gupta, The New York Times | Child-care centers improvised during the pandemic, scrambling to stay open with razor-thin budgets and little government guidance. How long will the short-term solutions last? In suburban Ohio, a decades-old child-care center that ...
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Roger Riddell, K-12 Dive | A report from the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center finds 2020 was a "record-breaking" year for cyberattacks against U.S. schools, with 408 publicized incidents marking an 18% increase over 2019. K-12 Dive: 2020 was a record ...
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CBS News | Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in that age group before they head back to school in the fall ...
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Mark Keierleber, The 74 | As the pandemic spread across the country, students were swept from their classrooms and isolated in their homes, raising concern that the instability could result in devastating emotional health implications and widespread learning loss. But ...
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Alec MacGillis, ProPublica | Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin. There are the pump jacks scattered across the plains, nodding up and down with metronomic ...
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Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat | States holding out hope that they can cancel standardized testing this year got more bad news Friday, as the Biden administration formally denied requests to do so from two states. Read "Biden admin says no to ...
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Anya Kamenetz, NPR | For this story NPR visited young people and their advocates in Louisiana and spoke to advocates for court-involved youth around the country. They say the pandemic put the whole system in limbo, with some complex and ...
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Emma Goldberg, The New York Times via Yahoo News | Few professions have been more upended by the pandemic than teaching, as school districts have vacillated between in-person, remote and hybrid models of learning, leaving teachers concerned for their health ...
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