Over the last 44 years, the percentage of youth arrested between the age of 8-23 has taken a sharp increase. Today, nearly one in three people will be arrested by the time they are 23, according to a study recently published in Pediatrics.
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Most people don’t need a study to tell them that students today have different academic and personal lives than students did even 10 years ago due to advances in technology. If you were to interview or even observe students, you would see that they are involved in creating, discovering, and connecting digital information on their own time as well as at school. However, a new study by the Pew Research Center goes beyond showing the obvious, and discusses the implications of the changing way students receive and create information.
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When did you know what career you wanted to pursue? Was it in college? High school? Middle school? Earlier?
Studies show that students need to be introduced to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects at an early age in order to pursue STEM careers later in life, according to the MindShift article “Should Computer Science Be Required in K-12?” In the Microsoft survey Audrey Watters quotes in this article, data showed
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Schools are seeing a rise in the number of students registering with their disability offices due to psychological problems, according to the Wall Street Journal article “A Serious Illness or an Excuse?” It’s still not understood what the reasoning is behind the rising numbers, but there are a few theories. The rise may be in part to the fact that there is more access to and more effective medication for students to manage psychological disorders allowing more students to attend school. Another reason could be that some schools are successfully reducing the stigma attached to mental illnesses and therefore bringing more students forward to get help.
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Some college students might be anxiously anticipating their holiday break, while others are becoming overwhelmed with countdown to their last holiday break and beginning of their last semester. A new class of graduates may be asking: What lies ahead? Will I get a job in my field? Will it make me happy? Did I pick the right major?
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Many of today’s students will leave high school without the critical and creative thinking skills needed to solve college-level problems and make wise real-world decisions. In order for American students to be strong innovators, leaders, and observers, many schools have adopted a critical and creative thinking program. However, according to a new study, for all the positive effects creative thinking can have on students, it can also apply to their ethics and the rate at which students cheat.
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In a review of 29 studies of school-parent programs, family participation in education was twice as predictive of students academic success as family socioeconomic status. Some of the more intensive programs had effects that were 10 times greater than other factors.
(http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Final_Parent_Involvement_Fact_Sheet_14732_7.pdf)
Here comes finals week, and many students are organizing their notes, forming study groups, and cramming in last minute study sessions. If the mountains of flashcards and call of Facebook is getting to be too much, students may find their saving grace in the web and mobile app StudyBlue.
Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer, and author, recently shared an email correspondence he had with his friend, a member on the Board of Education in Florida and holder of two bachelor’s degrees, a master’s, and 15 credit hours toward a doctorate.
The acronym STEM — standing for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — is in many twenty-first century educators’ vocabulary. However, even as awareness increases of American students needing more grounding in STEM skills to succeed in the technological world-of-work, implementation methods are still in an experimental phase.