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The Biden administration announced Wednesday a nationwide tour to address mental health challenges exacerbated by the pandemic, another sign the U.S. may have reached what the president said in his his State of the Union Address “a new moment in the fight against COVID-19.” Read More
From humble beginnings more than a decade ago, PeaceLove Studios co-founders Jeff Sparr and Matthew Kaplan had brought their mental-health programs to the world stage when the pandemic brought the planet to its knees. Read More
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library underwent a remodel that kept the historic exterior but completely reimagined the inside. Read More
Tens of millions of students may now be months or, in some cases, even a full year behind because they couldn’t attend school in person during the pandemic. Read More
There's been a drastic increase in the number of Americans who need mental health care, putting even more stress on a system that was already strained by the significantly lower pre-pandemic demand. Read More
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. has been awarded with the prestigious Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award. Read More
When I read Together, A Future Without Limits, I read and I hear that the children in my community will get a quality education that allows them to choose and create their life, their path, their dreams. Read More
Years ago, before I became an educator, I took a contemporary Native American studies course as one of my first college classes. Read More
The researchers continue to calculate monthly estimates of the U.S. poverty rate during COVID-19. They are reported here. Read More
WWF envisions a world with No Plastic in Nature by 2030—a world where our resources are never wasted. We cannot meet this goal without the power of business. Read More
Capitol Communicator is running “Up Close and Personal” profiles of communicators in the mid-Atlantic. In this profile we feature Nicole Harburger. Read More
Comms strategists Nicole Harburger, John Gundlach and Aimee Freund announced the launch of Mighty Good, a boutique social impact branding and communications agency based in Washington, D.C. Read More
A year after mayors and governors announced the first school closures related to COVID-19, many have turned to personalized tutoring to cope with disruptions to learning. Read More
After nearly a year of COVID-19-related disruptions to our nation’s schools, early research confirms we’re grappling with widespread learning loss — and it’s probably worse than we think when accounting for the large numbers of students missing from the data. Read More
Horrific. Painful. Avoidable. These are just a few of the words that came to mind when I learned earlier this week that in Rochester, police had handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a nine year-old girl after responding to a report of “family trouble,” which was a child in mental health crisis. Read More
Saga Education is an evidence-based, personalized tutoring model designed to support students struggling with math to put them on a path toward high school graduation and postsecondary success. Read More
A+ Schools, a local group that advocates for equity in education, released on Monday its annual “Report to the Community” on the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Read More
A social insurance program for children could dramatically reduce child poverty in the U.S., as Social Security has done for elderly poverty. Read More
Innovative, research-backed tutoring program recognized for its impact across Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Read More
This story about tutoring was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read More
Zak Williams is helping launch a new mental health program, Inseparable, in response to COVID-19. Read More
One million books. Vast rows of public computers. Six stories of D.C. history, movies and games, art supplies and power tools and music, all of it free to browse and borrow. Read More
DC's central library features recording studios, rooftop gardens, a kids' slide, and more. Read More