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Students Need "Learner's Permits" for Social Media Access: Decreasing Mental Health, Bullying, and School Shooting Risks
American adolescents are experiencing a mental health crisis of unprecedented proportions, with depression rates more than doubling since 2007, suicide attempts increasing dramatically, and anxiety di...
Read Full ArticleChronic Absenteeism and the “Five Why’s”: Stop Chasing Symptoms and Start Tackling Solutions
This Blog highlights a long-standing crisis in our nation’s schools: chronically-absent students. It documents the incident rates of chronic absenteeism over the past decade, specifies the root causes...
Read Full ArticleStudents’ Mental Health Challenges: What They Say, What Schools and Adults Miss, and Why AI Isn’t the Answer
This Blog highlights the pervasive mental health crisis among K-12 students, arguing that schools miss early intervention opportunities due to inadequate mental health screenings and threat assessment...
Read Full ArticleFive Essential Skill Sets for Middle and High School Students During Uncertain Times: Future-Proofing Their School Success—Now and After Graduation
This Blog discusses five specific Skill Sets that middle and high school students need to be successful academically and socially during uncertain times—especially since the pandemic. The Skill Sets f...
Read Full ArticleThe “Charlie Brown” Reality of Race and DEI in Education: How the Trump Administration is Creating Fear by Using “Ready-Fire-Aim” Tactics
This Blog uses fifty years of Charlie Brown lining up to kick a field goal—only to have Lucy pull the ball away—as a metaphor representing President Trump and the U.S. Department of Education’s “Ready...
Read Full ArticleRepelling a Wolf Attack on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973: Protecting Everyone When Chance Events Result in Life-Defining Disabilities
This Blog highlights how Section 504 protects individuals from discrimination based on disability, emphasizing that disabilities often arise from chance events and that anyone could potentially need 5...
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