Public Education
I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children - Campbell Brown
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A lack of education could be as deadly as smoking. Here's why.
Every year, a new paper argues, tens of thousands of Americans die sooner than they should for an entirely preventable reason. It's not smoking, or not exercising, or eating sugar. It's dropping out of high school and college.
In 2010 alone, more than 145,000 deaths in the US could have been prevented if high school dropouts had finished their secondary education, three public health researchers argued in a recent paper. Getting college dropouts to graduate could have saved 110,000 more.
If everyone in the US had a bachelor's degree, they estimated, it could prevent half a million premature deaths each year.
In general, people with more years of education tend…
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Are our better lives today robbing future generations of a livable world tomorrow?
In an effort to better integrate research communities and focus on collaborative solutions, Sokolow and other groups have begun to analyze existing data on interventions at the local and regional scale that have had a direct and measurable benefit for human health. “We hope to put these concrete examples in context and synthesize how they can advance a planetary health agenda for the 21st Century,” she said. In addition to individual projects, education also is a key component of the effort...
Making College Free Would Save Lives—and Money
Completing college could account for up to a ten percent difference in adult mortality.
The coronavirus pandemic is reshaping education
The pandemic is giving tech massive insights at scale as to what human development and learning looks like, allowing it to potentially shift from just content dissemination to augmenting relationships with teachers, personalization, and independence. But the way it is has been rolled out—overnight, with no training, and often not sufficient bandwidth—will leave many with a sour taste about the whole exercise.
The Truth About Kids, School, and COVID-19
We’ve known for months that young children are less susceptible to serious infection and less likely to transmit the coronavirus. Let’s act like it.
Why education matters to your health — literally
Education matters in innumerable ways, impacting every aspect of an individual’s life. It affects civic engagement, home ownership, job status, income, just to name a few things. And it affects health.
America’s Two Most Troubled Sectors: Health and Education
By now almost everyone knows that the U.S. has fallen badly behind other advanced nations in the kind of health care and education it delivers to its citizens. We spend twice as much per capita than most other countries on health care and don’t get better outcomes as a result. We also spend twice as much per full-time equivalent student on higher education than other OECD countries, and 38 percent more on elementary and secondary education with disappointing results in terms of what students know at the end of the process, according to international assessments of learning.
Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity
Education is a critical component of health and, we argue, education is a major, long-term, multifaceted cause of health. In particular, education is a powerful means of breaking the cycle of poverty (which greatly affects ethnic and racial minority populations) and promoting health equity.
How America Is Breaking Public Education
Despite these well-intentioned programs, including No Child Left Behind, Race To The Top, and the Every Student Succeeds Act, public education is more broken than ever. The reason, as much as we hate to admit it, is that we've disobeyed the cardinal rule of success in any industry: treating your workers like professionals.
How College Health Centers Help Students Succeed
Going beyond providing medical and mental health care and shaping the environment through a comprehensive public health approach, including prevention and education, is complicated and difficult. But these innovations pay off in healthier and more successful students and, in the long term, a healthier adult population.
How lessons from health care and housing could fix higher education affordability
More money from the federal government is part of the solution, but to achieve results we need a new approach to higher education affordability — one that builds on lessons learned from other policy areas and ties federal spending to specific standards with defined roles for all levels of government.
More Students Are Getting Special Help in Grades K-12
More students are getting extra help for a range of issues including ADHD and anxiety, data show, with a disproportionate amount of those receiving support attending schools in wealthier districts.
We Know Ways to Teach Kids With Autism
The earlier children with developmental disabilities receive services, the better they function later in life.
What If America Didn't Have Public Schools?
Imagining an entirely different educational system reveals some strengths—and flaws—of the current one.
Why Boosting Poor Children’s Vocabulary Is Important for Public Health
One key difference between low-income and affluent babies: the number of words to which they’re exposed.
Why is Girls’ Education Important for Public Health and Vice-Versa?
The relationship between education and health is not a one-way street. Girls’ health, particularly sexual and reproductive health, is an important issue for their education. Often, girls’ sexual and reproductive health problems are related to stigma and discrimination, further creating ostracism in and outside of school.
A lack of education could be as deadly as smoking. Here's why.
In general, people with more years of education tend to be healthier. This could be because the knowledge they gain actually helps them — by making them more likely to exercise and eat well, or by making it easier for them to follow doctors' directions. Or it could be because having more education brings other social benefits.
Science Moms
Through interviews with "science moms" who are on the front lines of this struggle, we’ll dissect the bogus claims of these celebrities one by one and explain in simple language what the science really shows about GMOs, vaccines, homeopathy, and any of these topics that are often in the headlines, yet even more often are misunderstood. We can’t change everyone’s minds, but we can make our voices heard. One mom at a time.
The 74
The 74 is a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America. Our public education system is in crisis. In the United States, less than half of our students can read or do math at grade-level, yet the education debate is dominated by misinformation and political spin. Our mission is to lead an honest, fact-based conversation about how to give America’s 74 million children under the age of 18 the education they deserve.
Global Partnership for Education
The Global Partnership for Education is the only global fund solely dedicated to education in developing countries.
Health Education & Behavior
Health Education & Behavior (HEB) is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly journal that provides empirical research, case studies, program evaluations, literature reviews, and discussions of theories of health behavior and health status, as well as strategies to improve social and behavioral health.
Healthy Schools Campaign
We’re a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that all students have access to healthy school environments where they can learn and thrive.
Kenneth Rainin Foundation
The mission of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation is to enhance quality of life by championing the arts, promoting early childhood literacy, and supporting research to cure chronic disease. Collaboration and innovation are at the heart of all our programs. Our work is guided by our commitment to change through inquiry, creativity and compassion.
Network for Public Education
The Network for Public Education was founded in 2013 by Diane Ravitch and Anthony Cody. We are an advocacy group whose mission is to preserve, promote, improve and strengthen public schools for both current and future generations of students
Pennies for Education & Health
Pennies for Education & Health (PEH) works towards empowering a new generation of children and their families, primarily in the developing world, through education and good health. Through our donor sponsorship program, you can transform the lives of these children and their families by helping to tackle the root causes of poverty. Our program extends to all people, regardless of faith, gender, or ethnicity.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
The Health Teacher
Our rapidly changing world presents a whole new set of opportunities and challenges for kids. Staying on top of the latest can help us guide them as they set healthy habits for life.
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