by Dan DeMarle | Apr 21, 2022 | Classroom, Discipline/Suspensions, Race/Racism, School Districts
Interventions that seek to evoke empathy in teachers can sideline biases and narrow the racial gap in suspensions of middle school students, suggests new research from the University of California, Berkeley. In one of the most rigorous efforts to date to combat...
by Dan DeMarle | Apr 17, 2022 | RCSD, School Districts
Justin Murphy – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – USA TODAY NETWORK – in the D&C on 3-26-22 page A7 The Rochester City School District’s state-appointed monitor Thursday issued a scathing rejection of the 2022-23 budget proposal, forcing the...
by Dan DeMarle | Apr 17, 2022 | Child sexual abuse/exploitation/sex trafficking, Classroom, Disability, Parents/Guardians
Children and adolescents with disabilities are more than twice as likely to experience violence than their peers without disabilities, with global estimates suggesting one in three are survivors of violence. The global study of more than 16 million young people...
by Dan DeMarle | Apr 15, 2022 | Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion
As assistant professor of orthopedics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, David Howell, PhD, understands the relationship between concussions and subsequent injury in athletes — namely, that after suffering a concussion, athletes at all levels are...
by Dan DeMarle | Apr 15, 2022 | Anorexia, Covid-19, Eating Disorders
Throughout the pandemic, the lockdowns, social isolation, and relentless anxiety and fear related to COVID-19 have driven a surge in depression, anxiety, and trauma-related mental health conditions among children and teenagers. A new report from the Centers for...
