How Mental Health Supports Impact Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD)
September 27, 2023 by Millions of students across the country, especially students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, and students with disabilities, lack access to critical school-based mental health services.
Statewide Parent Poll Highlights Ongoing Concerns for Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development and Mental Health in Massachusetts
May 24, 2023 by Ed Trust BOSTON (May 24, 2023) – As decision-makers continue to discuss how to best tackle students’ unfinished learning amid a time of post-pandemic recovery, a new poll released today by The…
A School Environment Can Positively (or Negatively) Affect a Student’s Mental Health
May 09, 2023 by Denise Forte May is Mental Health Awareness Month. For some time, educators have known that more focus should be placed on the social emotional wellbeing of students — the whole child —…
School Hardening Can Harm Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development
April 06, 2023 by Ed Trust The Education Trust Outlines Key Policies that Federal, State, and Local Education Leaders Can Take to Implement Fair and Positive Student Discipline Practices WASHINGTON — Amid a pandemic-era surge in school…
What Parents Really Want: Less Politicking & More Attention to Students’ Academic & Mental Health Needs
March 21, 2023 by Lynn C. Jennings, Ph.D The “parents rights” debate is an exercise in political bluster over substance. The recent introduction of the Parents Bill of Rights Act (HR 5) in the House of Representatives is…
Student Mental Health: A Presidential Priority
February 08, 2023 by Nancy Duchesneau “Let’s do more on mental health, especially for our children. When millions of young people are struggling with bullying, violence, trauma, we owe them greater access to mental healthcare at…
The Case for Increasing School Safety by Investing in Student Mental Health
October 03, 2022 by Nancy Duchesneau Even as the nation still reels from the tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas in May, gun violence continues to increase. And four years after the mass shooting…
The Education Trust’s Comments on the U.S. Department of Education’s Proposed Priorities for Mental Health Programs
August 26, 2022 by Ed Trust Amy Banks U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 3E257 Washington DC, 20202 Earl Myers U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 3E244 Washington, DC 20202…
Black Women’s Mental Health and the Student Debt Crisis
August 05, 2022 by Letisha Marrero Any moment now, the Biden administration will announce its plan to forgive student debt as the moratorium on loan payments will expire at the end of this month. While mounting…