SEL Programs Benefit From Partnerships, Adults’ Skills [downloadable]
Social-emotional learning programs can benefit from adults’ knowledge of their own SEL skills, according to a report from the RAND Corp. and the Wallace Foundation. Read more ›
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ (LGBTQ+) Children’s Health Snapshot [downloadable]
LGBTQ+ youth face disproportionate structural barriers as they navigate through life, whether it’s living in a stable home, or being accepted, safe and protected at school. The Children’s Partnership’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ (LGBTQ+) Children’s Health fact sheet illuminates the inequities that surround the lives of LGBTQ+ youth in California and impact their success and healthy development. Read more ›
How Much Learning Have Students Lost Due to COVID?
There is good reason to fear that this spring’s school closures hurt students’ academic progress. But how much learning, exactly, did students lose?
On a national level, we don’t yet know. State tests were canceled last spring, and this year’s tests won’t be given for many months, if they happen at all.
That’s prompted researchers to release their own projections of learning loss — and they paint a grim picture. Read more ›
Latinx Children in California [downloadable]
With an increasingly diverse child population across California, acknowledging and addressing health inequities is more critical than ever. In an effort to inform and educate the public on the many factors that contribute to disparate health outcomes, The Children’s Partnership developed a series of fact sheets as part of its “A Child is a Child” campaign. Read more ›
Want to Learn More Effectively? Take More Breaks, Research Suggests
John Sweller, one of the most influential learning science researchers, offers a new insight from his latest line of research : the human brain may need regular breaks when learning to help it refresh its “working memory” capacity. Read more ›
Research: School Counselors and COVID-19 [downloadable]
In a new report, Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers explored how counselors are adapting to meet student needs, where the challenges are, and how schools, districts, and states can support and provide resources to reinforce counselors’ work. Read more ›
Teens’ Social Media Use is Up During Pandemic, and So Is Their Parents’ Concern
Parents weigh in on their kids and social media. Turns out, there’s widespread worry.
That’s according to new survey results from Lurie Children’s Hospital. With remote learning and social distancing in place during the pandemic, social media use is up. That’s no surprise, but some of the statistics are. Read more ›
Depression Increases More Than Three-Fold In Wake Of Pandemic, Study Finds
Medical experts and public health leaders have been expressing concern about the wave of mental health problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Some have even referred to it as a possible second pandemic. Read more ›
Black Children Wait Longer For Autism Diagnosis
New research shows that it often takes three years and visits to multiple providers before Black children are diagnosed with autism, denying them a critical opportunity for therapy when it’s likely to be most effective. Read more ›
Racial Discrimination Linked to Suicide
In this age of racial reckoning, new research findings indicate that racial discrimination is so painful that it is linked to the ability to die by suicide, a presumed prerequisite for being able to take one’s own life. However, the ability to emotionally and psychologically reframe a transgression can mitigate its harmful effects. Read more ›
