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.NYSSCA UPDATE
Longitudinal Research Information
Center for Longitudinal Studies
This autumn, the Center for Longitudinal Studies in Ireland is hosting a series of online events aimed at early career researchers and anyone interested in longitudinal research.
Five online events have been organized:
- October 23 — Introduction to Longitudinal Research @ 9:30 am ET
- October 30 — Insights into Longitudinal Methodology: Where to start? @ 10:30 am ET
- November 6 — Insights into Longitudinal Research: What Analyses are available? @ 9:30 am ET
- November 13 — Kickstarting your Research Network @ 9:30 am ET
- November 30 — Kickstarting your Longitudinal Research Project. What Lessons do Experienced Researchers have to share @ 9:30 am ET
If you are interested in attending any of these free events, please sign up through Eventbrite. As the events will be on Zoom, there is plenty of space for everyone! Please circulate this email to anyone in your network who might be interested in joining us.
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Counselors Need Real Support
Inside Higher Ed
College admission officers are gearing up for an admission cycle like no other. The global health pandemic has generated challenges that could make it difficult for admission officers to recruit applicants and use traditional metrics for evaluating them. To counter these threats to the admissions process, reports suggest that admission officers plan to rely more heavily on their partners on the other side of the desk — school counselors — to recruit and evaluate students. However, according to our recent survey of public school counselors, the COVID-19 crisis is also having a detrimental impact on their ability to deliver college counseling. Counselors will be hard-pressed to compensate for the challenges facing admission officers, especially when it comes to recruiting underserved students, unless we turn to creative solutions for collaboration.
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.AROUND THE INDUSTRY
How school counselors can uplift their LGBTQ students
The Human Rights Campaign (commentary)
Nhandi Craig, a contributor for The Human Rights Campaign, writes: "Hey, y'all! I'm Nhandi Craig (she/her/hers), an 18-year-old DJ, recent high school grad and an HRC Youth Ambassador. I had the chance to talk with Laura Ross (she/her/hers), a fantastic middle school counselor who was named 2020 School Counselor of the Year by the American School Counselor Association, about the importance of LGBTQ-affirming counselors and her amazing advocacy to ensure LGBTQ students feel safe and included at her school."
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6 steps for preventing bullying in the online era
District Administration Magazine
The large-scale shift to online learning has opened new avenues for bullying while a renewed focus on social justice has educators paying special attention to race-based harassment. The move to remote instruction requires that teachers and administrators to anticipate how students might misuse new digital tools, says Jasmine Williams, a bullying prevention expert and researcher at Committee for Children, a nonprofit provider of social-emotional learning and bullying prevention programs.
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8 steps for teaching students modern workforce skills
District Administration Magazine
Educators think their schools could do a better job teaching digital skills, business acumen and the teamwork students need in the modern workforce, according to a new report. A gap exists between the percent of educators who think these skills are essential and those who feel these competencies are being taught adequately, according to "The View from the Schoolhouse: How Middle and High School Educators See the Skills Shaping the Modern Economy" by American Student Assistance and Burning Glass Technologies. This gap is wider in classrooms in which a majority of the students are Black or Latinx, or receive free- and reduced-price lunch, the report found.
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ACT and SAT scores no longer required for admissions at some colleges
CBS News
A growing number of U.S. colleges and universities are abandoning ACT and SAT scores as part of their admissions process. The so-called test-blind movement has gathered steam this year amid widespread cancellations of the standardized tests because of COVID-19. The list of schools dropping the exams includes Northern Illinois University; Reed College in Oregon; Hampshire College in Massachusetts; Loyola University in New Orleans; the University of New England; Washington State University; and some University of California campuses, including Berkeley.
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IEPs altered to reflect distance learning service changes, but at cost to schools
Education DIVE
When schools closed to in-person learning in the spring, some individualized supports for students with disabilities were easily transitioned to remote or virtual learning. But other services were harder to adapt to new learning formats due to the specific interventions that require physical or behavioral supports and other intensive services.
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Federal per-pupil spending map gives rundown for each school and district
THE Journal
The United States Department of Education has launched an interactive map that shows how much money each school spends per student. So far, districts and schools in 20 states have been added to the map. The idea, according to the agency, is to "radically increase transparency as parents and local leaders seek to understand funding levels and differences between schools." ESSA, the Every Student Succeeds Act, requires each state to provide the data on "per pupil expenditures" as part of its public "report card" for each education agency.
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Social media use in distance learning raises privacy concerns
Education DIVE
Communication should only be carried out on platforms with strict privacy rules, with only general information shared on social media. Educators must remember that social media use could result in Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act violations, as well as attract harassment from online trolls.
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Youth suicide: The other public health crisis
The 74
Brad Hunstable believes his 12-year-old son died of the coronavirus — just not in the way one might expect. As the virus shuttered campuses nationwide and put students' social lives on pause, the Texas father lost his son Hayden to suicide just days before his 13th birthday. In an emotional video posted online, Hunstable blamed pandemic-induced social isolation — and a fit of rage — for his son's death earlier this year.
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Parent training: 5 ways to help parents support distance learning
District Administration Magazine
District leaders acknowledge that the many passwords, platforms, schedules and assignments associated with virtual learning are overwhelming to parents who are assisting their children this fall. Parents are exhausted by managing their child's classwork in addition to taking care of their other responsibilities, such as work demands, says Naomi Tyler, director of the IRIS Center, a technical assistance center funded by the Office of Special Education Programs. But, she adds, "The data is clear: When there's collaboration between school and home, the outcomes for students are so much better."
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How much learning have students lost due to COVID? Projections are coming in, but it's still hard to say
Chalkbeat
There is good reason to fear that this spring's school closures hurt students' academic progress. But how much learning, exactly, did students lose? On a national level, we don't yet know. State tests were canceled last spring, and this year's tests won't be given for many months, if they happen at all. That's prompted researchers to release their own projections of learning loss — and they paint a grim picture.
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Children use make-believe aggression and violence to manage bad-tempered peers
University of Cambridge via Science Daily
Children are more likely to introduce violent themes into their pretend play, such as imaginary fighting or killing, if they are with playmates whom peers consider bad-tempered, new research suggests. Academics believe that the tendency for children to introduce aggressive themes in these situations — which seems to happen whether or not they are personally easy to anger — may be because they are "rehearsing" strategies to cope with hot-headed friends.
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