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There's a perception that children don't kill themselves, but that's just not true. A new report shows that, for the first time, suicide rates for U.S. middle school students have surpassed the rate of death by car crashes.
This is a project called the Schools of Opportunity, launched a few years ago by educators who sought to highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through 11 research-proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more a measure of socioeconomic status than anything else).
More than 5,000 incidents of suicidal behavior were reported in Los Angeles Unified in the last school year, an exponential jump from the 255 reported in 2010-2011 when the district, California’s largest, began tracking such incidents.
For the past 15 years, Hillsdale High School has worked in partnership with Stanford University’s School of Education and other groups such as the nonprofit National Equity Project to develop small learning communities that are challenging, engaging and equitable. That work has paid great dividends for the Hillsdale students.
As students across the country zip up their backpacks and get on the bus for their first weeks of school, many will have more to focus on than memorizing their new schedules or making it to homeroom on time.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau announced Monday that the Montana Office of Public Instruction has been awarded an additional $1.3 million to continue its Schools of Promise program, which provides intensive support to Montana schools most in need.