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Youth in Chicago who are dealing with the issues of gun violence and trauma also face a lack of access to mental health services, but there are organizations working to help young people recover from the effects of violence.
Research shows working class, first-generation college students of color from Illinois have, on average, a much harder time getting their associate’s or bachelor’s degrees than their white, wealthier peers.
When the 2018 Illinois School Report Cards are released Oct. 31, parents and educators can expect to see significant changes to the way schools are measured with the switch to a new statewide accountability and support system.
Gone are the days when elementary students in Naperville District 203 opened an application on an iPad at school to play a cartoon game to reinforce their number, letter or clock-reading skills.
It’s a scene that school nurses are expecting many times over as the new year opens, reflecting both the growing number of mental health issues among school-age children, and how the traditional role of school nurses has evolved from cleaning up playground scrapes and taking temperatures to meet the needs of this growing population.
To Duvall, it’s even more important to improve the climate of a school with overcrowded classrooms. “It is about modeling accountable talk,” she says. “It is putting [social-emotional learning practices] in place—whether you have a class of one or a class of 41.”
A group of professors, educators and nonprofit representatives recently met in Las Vegas to plan how parents, students and community members can work together to lower the dropout rate among Latinos and encourage them to graduate.