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Intergenerational Care Benefits Children and Seniors. Why Is It Still So Rare?

ED Surge

As of 2021, fewer than 150 such facilities operated in the United States, according to Donna Butts, executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit that advocates for intergenerational policies and programming. Intergenerational shared sites we think they really are the way of the future. As they age, their social networks contract.

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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

ED Surge

Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant.

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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

ED Surge

Now that the firestorm has passed, some say the initial judgments were too harsh: The percentage of students enrolled in math classes in San Francisco beyond Algebra II increased from 2018 to 2021, according to data recently highlighted by detracking advocate Kentaro Iwasaki, founder of Concentric Math.

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Why Schools Still Struggle to Provide Enough Mental Health Resources for Students

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The National Center for Education Statistics released its biennial Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. Nearly 90 percent of schools reported increased social and emotional support for students during the 2021-22 academic year.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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As Student Need Rises, More College Faculty Set Up Emergency Aid Funds

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Kirtley credits the spread of the model in part to the efforts of educator unions. From Aid to Advocacy Seven years after the movement began, FAST Funds are starting to measure their results. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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