Depression, anxiety, impulsive behaviour and poor cognitive performance in children is affected by the amount of sleep they have, researchers from the University of Warwick have found. Sleep states are active processes that support reorganisation of brain circuitry. This makes sleep especially important for children, whose brains are developing and reorganizing rapidly. In the paper 'Sleep durati
Education Commission of the States has tracked and reported annually on legislation pertaining to school and district leaders for three years. In that time, enacted legislation has centered on three areas: alternative licensure, professional development and evaluations. Principals are a critical piece of any school improvement effort, and while much of that direction comes at the local level, the
With February being Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, new research is illuminating how this problem is manifesting online. "Digital dating abuse" as it has been termed, uses technology to repetitively harass a romantic partner with the intent to control, coerce, intimidate, annoy or threaten them. Given that youth in relationships today are constantly in touch with each other via texting, soc
A new commentary by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researchers published in the journal Pediatrics uses the example of high school sexually transmitted infection (STI) programs to highlight how collaborations between schools and health departments can create gaps in student privacy. "Students who use health programs in school may not realize that there could be vulnerabilities
A new report based on 1.8 million teacher requests from the crowdfunding site DonorsChoose reveals that teachers across the nation are turning to fundraising to meet their basic classroom needs. An analysis of 10 years of teacher requests, from 2009 to 2019, underscores growing inequity in America’s schools. As school poverty rates rise, so do requests for outside support. While the majority of o
The American Superintendent 2020 Decennial serves as the sequel to AASA’s landmark 2010 Decennial Study , which examined historical and contemporary perspectives on our nation’s school system leaders. As with previous editions, this year’s study is an extension of national decennial studies of the American school superintendent that began in 1923. Preliminary findings of the 2020 “AASA Decennial
Complete report Given growing concern among parents, students, educators, and medical professionals about the impact that active shooter drills can have on student development, 10 Everytown, AFT, and NEA do not recommend these drills for students and believe schools should carefully consider these impacts before conducting live drills that involve students and educators. For schools that do condu
We know from previous survey research that teachers who hold high expectations for all of their students significantly increase the odds that those young people will go on to complete high school and college. One indicator of teachers’ expectations is their approach to grading—specifically, whether they subject students to more or less rigorous grading practices. Unfortunately, “grade inflation”
Download Free PDF Teachers play a critical role in the success of their students, both academically and in regard to long term outcomes such as higher education participation and economic attainment. Expectations for teachers are increasing due to changing learning standards and a rapidly diversifying student population. At the same time, there are perceptions that the teaching workforce may be s
T he National Center for Education Statistics released a new Data Point report today , entitled . This report describes the average start time for public high schools in the United States during the 2017-18 school year by school characteristics and state, including the following findings: A higher percentage of public high schools in cities (26 percent) reported a starting school time of 8:30 a.
A new report addresses key issues for Kindergarten Readiness Assessments (KRAs) and assessment K-3 more generally. The purpose of this report is to investigate the feasibility of constructing a school-level measure of students' academic growth from kindergarten to grade 3, and to assess the validity and precision of that measure. The study measured schoolwide student growth for reading and math u
In many workplaces, standing desks and walking meetings are addressing the health dangers of sitting too long each day, but for universities, the natural question is how to make such adjustments for classrooms. The question appealed to emerita dance professor Angelia Leung from the UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance. Sitting too long was never an issue for Leung's students. But for mo
Used in virtually all of the world's languages, parentese is a speaking style that draws baby's attention. Parents adopt its simple grammar and words, plus its exaggerated sounds, almost without thinking about it. But if parents knew the
