How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes
(Ed Surge)
You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. However, I am dubious that the approaches you describe work with large classes. What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Or even hundreds?
Should Parents Help Their Kids With Homework?
(The Conversation)
To find out, we studied data from an important nationally representative survey administered by the federal government – the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. We found that low-achieving children were far more likely to receive frequent homework from parents.
How to Navigate the Mental Health Conversation With Your College Student
(UKNOW)
For incoming students, there’s anticipation at the thought of new-found freedom and apprehension when it comes to leaving the familiar behind. The transition to college can be emotionally challenging as life away from home, friends and the predictability of high school becomes reality.
College Board Drops Its ‘Adversity Score’ For Each Student After Backlash
(NPR’s All Things Considered)
In an interview with NPR, College Board CEO David Coleman said that boiling all of that complex information down to one number was indeed problematic and that the company is now reversing its decision.
Bullying doesn’t stop after high school. Talk to your child about finding help at college.
(USA Today)
College should be a place of openness to new ideas. But my gay son Tyler was the victim of a horrible act of cyberbullying and he died by suicide.
The Scientific Debate Over Teens, Screens And Mental Health
(NPR)
More teens and young adults — particularly girls and young women — are reporting being depressed and anxious, compared with comparable numbers from the mid-2000s. Suicides are up too in that time period, most noticeably among girls ages 10 to 14.
Five Facts About Teen Mental Health and Screens: A Response to Anya Kamenetz
(Institute for Family Studies)
In the years around 2010, something started to go wrong in the lives of American teens—the group I call iGen. Adolescent depression spiked, loneliness increased, and life satisfaction fell.
What Happens to Special Education Students as Adults?
(Psychology Today)
A new study explores the IDEA program and adulthood outomes.
A Better Future For Graduate-Student Mental Health
(nature.com)
A consortium of US universities aims to examine how best to help a vulnerable population that is affected by anxiety and depression.
Careers Intelligence: How To Support International Student Mental Health
(Times Higher Education)
Universities need to be able to support the needs of overseas learners, but should not regard them as being completely different from domestic recruits, say experts
Mindfulness for Middle School Students
(Science Daily)
Two new studies suggest that mindfulness — the practice of focusing one’s awareness on the present moment — can enhance academic performance and mental health in middle-schoolers.
Depression, Anxiety Rising Among U.S. College Students
(Reuters)
Looking at data from two large annual surveys of college undergraduates covering the years 2007-2018, researchers found a broad worsening of mental health indicators including depression overall, anxiety, low flourishing and suicidal planning and attempts, particularly in the second half of the study period.
What Kids Who Bully Often Have In Common
(HuffPost)
When parents, educators and mental health professionals talk about bullying, there is understandably a lot of emphasis on the victims. But in focusing solely on victims in anti-bullying efforts, an important part of the equation gets forgotten: the kids who do the bullying.
Five Ways for Teen Girls to Overcome Stress, Build Resilience and Confront This School Year’s Challenges Head On
(Thrive Global)
My question is: how? Even though I am fortunate enough to attend a school that puts an emphasis on ending the stigma around mental health, I notice that my friends, classmates and I are constantly struggling to find ways to cope with stress and lead healthy lifestyles.
How We Build Resilience At College And At Home
(Forbes)
Increasingly, today’s students are lonely. More and more of them are anxious. Many are experiencing depression. And that’s leading them to college counseling centers at ever-increasing rates. One major recent study showed that 75% of current college students say they need help for emotional or mental health problems.
Five Ways Parents Can Help Their Kids Transition Smoothly to Middle School
(Washington Post)
Once students recover from the shock of seeing their principal at the front door, they spill their fears: How will I know where to go? What if I can’t get my locker open? Will I still see my old friends if they’re not in any of my classes? What if I have no one to sit with at lunch?
When Kids Grow Up: How to Support Adult Children Without Hovering
(Washington Post)
A study published this year found that young adults whose parents were both supportive of their independence and responsive to their needs had more positive outcomes, such as better academic engagement, less delinquent behavior and lower levels of depression, compared with young adults whose parents were uninvolved or too controlling. But how do you find the line between those extremes?
