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AP Access for ALL Enters Second Year of Providing Free, Online College-Level Classes While Celebrating First Year Results (opens in a new window)

TN Department of Education

September 23, 2022

AP Access for ALL is a grant program created by the Tennessee Department of Education and administered by the Niswonger Foundation. The program provides students across the state with access to 17 different virtual AP courses, eliminating financial barriers and supporting student enrollment in AP coursework not currently offered at their home high school. More than 1,800 students signed up for classes this fall, an increase of more than 600 students from the 2021-22 school year.

Inside the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis (opens in a new window)

NY Times

September 08, 2022

Young people in the United States are facing a new set of risks. Why has the situation caught so many people off guard? In decades past, the public health risks teenagers in the United States faced were different. They were externalized risks that were happening in the physical world. Now, a new set of risks has emerged.

D.C. Schools Roll Out Program to Improve Student Reading Levels (opens in a new window)

Washington Post

September 08, 2022

D.C. Public Schools kicked off a new school year last week, and with it a reading curriculum resource designed to improve literacy among the city’s youngest readers.

The program called DCPS Readers Next Door includes a collection of 120 books largely written and illustrated by educators in the District, and is an expansion of a years-long effort to align literacy instruction with what experts say are the best practices for teaching children how to read.

Industry-Recognized Credentials Are Helpful But Not Transformative For High School Students (opens in a new window)

Fordham Institute

August 29, 2022

A recent study found that high school Industry-Recognized Credentials (IRCs) are a net positive for students who earn them but are not game changers, which raises a lingering question: How else can we transform the high school experience for students so as to significantly boost their wages and career prospects once they are in the workforce? Researchers share their ideas for change. 

The Journalism Year (opens in a new window)

Edutopia

August 29, 2022

A required course in high school journalism would give kids the tools to tell the stories of their communities and make them active contributors to civic life, not just readers and writers.

Survey: Use of Print-Only Materials in Classrooms Likely to Dwindle (opens in a new window)

K-12 Dive

August 29, 2022

Classroom learning materials will likely be mostly digital or remain a mix of digital and print in future years, representing a significant change from before the pandemic when curriculum materials were mostly print or a mix of digital and print, according to teacher and administrator survey results from Bay View Analytics, a statistical research firm.

Students Face Anxieties During Return to In-person School (opens in a new window)

PBS News Weekend

August 24, 2022

While most schools across the country returned to in-person instruction last year, many families opted to stick with virtual learning or switched to homeschooling. And for them, the start of this new school year brings a range of new anxieties. Geoff Bennett spoke with Kimberly Back and her daughter, Delilah, about transitioning back to the classroom.

Let Us Now Praise Great Teachers (opens in a new window)

Los Angeles Times

August 24, 2022

A love letter all the teachers going back to school this month. What I want to say to you is simple enough: What you do is vital to our future well-being. If most of us will be remembered by a handful of loved ones after we’re gone, you will be remembered by thousands. And you deserve it.

Over 1,700 Colleges Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Fall 2023, Up From Same Point Last Year (opens in a new window)

K-12 Dive

August 03, 2022

Some institutions had nixed SAT and ACT requirements before the COVID-19 health crisis. But the pandemic pushed the test-optional movement into overdrive as the coronavirus’s spread shut down traditional exam sites. 

The significant number of colleges sticking with these policies, despite coronavirus-related concerns waning, suggests the assessments will have a permanently diminished role in admissions.

Paper Books Linked to Stronger Readers in an International Study (opens in a new window)

KQED

July 29, 2022

A new international report suggests that physical books may be important to raising children who become strong readers. An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study across approximately 30 countries found that teens who said they most often read paper books scored considerably higher on a 2018 reading test taken by 15-year-olds compared to teens who said they rarely or never read books. 

Most Millennials are Sticking Close to Home (opens in a new window)

Market Watch

July 28, 2022

Here’s a breakdown of young-adult migration by race and ethnicity from a study by Harvard and Census Bureau researchers. They found two-thirds of millennials living in the same area where they grew up and 80% having moved less than 100 miles away.