MindShift

09/29/2025

Research shows that immigration raids increase stress and anxiety among children with undocumented parents, neighbors and community members, even when those people are U.S. citizens.

Students are feeling the ripple effects after a summer of unrelenting immigration raids during which one of their own classmates was deported.

09/29/2025

Shadow docket rulings don’t require explanations from the court, and the number of these cases has grown in recent years.

It isn’t just the executive branch changing education for American K-12 students. The Supreme Court has leapt in.

09/29/2025

There are signs that the Trump admin is partially reversing course and wants to retain a role in generating education statistics.

The public has until Oct. 15 to weigh in.

09/29/2025

One Oakland high school built a comprehensive support system, providing food, medical, legal, and mental health services, so that newcomer students can not only adapt but thrive in their new environment.

Many schools are still learning how to serve newcomer students. At Oakland International High School, that's the mission.

09/28/2025

When parents respond to children’s distress in a supportive, empathetic way, it gives children a model for how to respond to the distress of others.

A new study shows how empathy is passed down from one generation to the next.

09/28/2025

Graphic novels have risen in popularity among kids, but some parents and teachers still don't consider them “real books.”

3 educators weighed in on how graphic novels and comics can boost reading skills and enhance critical thinking.

09/28/2025

Getting kids excited about math has never been easy. Sixth grade math teacher Staci Durnin found success with the Thinking Classrooms model.

A new teaching model is shaking up the norms of math class to create a different culture around problem-solving.

09/28/2025

Help students follow their hearts in and out of the classroom.

Ideas via Vicki Davis
Sketchnote via Sylvia Duckworth

09/28/2025

Rather than think of formative assessment as a drawn-out process, it helps to focus on using tools that will tell us what we need to know quickly.

09/27/2025

When it comes to helping kids recover academically, cultivating good instruction and a sense of community set the most effective schools apart.

Nonprofit counts more than 1,300 U.S. schools where students beat the odds.

09/27/2025

High levels of parental care along with low levels of psychological control are two factors associated with the psychological well-being of adults.

Making sure a child feels heard can help with their path to a well-adjusted adulthood; shaming and invalidation does not.

09/27/2025

Emphasizing a hopeful mindset over a cynical one is an empirically wiser parenting choice, argues Jamil Zaki, director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab.

Kids are well primed to absorb their parents' emotions, which is why having adults practice hopefulness can help kids realize their best selves and develop an accurate worldview.