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"While today’s technologies can undercut adolescents’ digital agency through efforts to tether them to their devices, teens are not helpless against the draw of technology."
Three HGSE faculty members share actionable steps and words of wisdom for supporting young people amid uncertain times
A roadmap for finding champions and collaborators in your city or district
The evolution and significance of report cards in the American education system
Creative ways educators can adjust their curriculum during "treacherous" times
A guide for educators as efforts intensify to censor books
Even puppets need an entourage
Strategies for addressing difficult global events with children that build confidence and resilience
"In an ideal world, we would see people questioning higher education and simultaneously getting a lot of support for career pathways and other career and trade opportunities in K-12. I’m not sure, for the lowered interest in higher education, we are simultaneously seeing that kind of investment, culturally as well as practically."
And why it’s an act of justice
A guide to healing-centered engagement, an innovative mental health model
Members of the HGSE community share titles that inform and provide new perspectives
How a high school football team and determined principal helped keep their tiny school from closing
How educators are speaking out in response to recent — and increasing — book bans
Strategies that can help your child develop a deeper understanding of gratitude — into their teen years
Two financial columnists join Education Now to explore how to teach kids about money and finances.
Alum develops curriculum to entice reluctant math learners
The author of "Talk with Her: A Dad's Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters" talks girlhood, Barbie, and what's coming up for her
Can the doll and movie help young people find common ground? It’s complicated.
Making Caring Common identifies several drivers of young adults’ emotional challenges, including a lack of meaning and purpose
"We've also seen in the past decade the emergence of a lot of research showing that what schools do really does matter for attendance, the way in which they communicate with families. Oftentimes parents think absence is much more common and that their student is more typical than is actually the case, and correcting those perceptions can be powerful."
"Before parents and teachers rejoice and hand over tablets to their kids for the entire day, it’s important to note that the average positive effect hides significant variation in app effectiveness. ... It’s crucial to explore the characteristics of the studies and apps that may explain these differences."
Associate Professor Nadine Gaab on how earlier intervention can be the ultimate game-changer when it comes to identifying children with dyslexia and other learning differences
A panel of educators discuss the impact affirmative action's end has on new college applicants
Tips for talking with teens about social media and thinking traps
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy detailed the struggle many adolescents have with social media and what can be done to help
New research shows how parents can help kids — and themselves — use e-books as a tool to improve early childhood development
Based at Project Zero, the center will offer new evidence-backed resources to support teens in a technology-filled world
"We would just be as right to sound the alarm about a parent mental health crisis as a teen mental health crisis. I don't think we're going to get very far with teens unless we also support the parents."
Strategies to better support the mental well-being of parents and caregivers, with a view to preventing anxiety and depression in adolescents
"American higher education certainly has its problems. But the bad vibes around college threaten to obscure an important economic reality: Most young people are still far better off with a four-year college degree than without one."
A new report outlines key principles for early relational health
"It’s genuinely very hard to teach reading. We haven’t been as dogged in supporting teachers ... in teaching reading in a way that is as sophisticated and complex as it really is."
"Parents’ influence on teens is profound. It’s perhaps the most important influence on teens’ lives, and we are not going to get very far in solving the teen mental health crisis if we don’t pay attention to parents and to caring for the caregivers."
How higher education has reacted to the end of affirmative action and the path forward for equity
A new report shows a strong connection between parent and adolescent mental health, offers prevention strategies for teen anxiety and depression
Professor Thomas Kane joined CBS News to discuss why schools have struggled to get a handle on COVID recovery.
“What I’m hoping is that you give the students and teachers tools to recalibrate a school climate that’s centered on well-being. All of these little things add up to a shift in climate that’s much more healthy and more positive.”
Neighborhood leaders from around the country gathered at HGSE to share new ideas and guidance around "transforming place"
Generative AI tools can reflect our failure of imagination and that is when the real learning starts
"Depressed and anxious parents are often wonderful parents despite — and sometimes because of — emotional challenges. But depression and anxiety in parents are linked to academic, emotional, and health problems in teens. This harm can be compounded when both a teen and one or both of their parents are depressed or anxious."
Active citizenship requires a broad set of skills, new study finds
Paulina Haduong, Ph.D.'23, on understanding the challenges that K–12 teachers and students face in learning computing together