Author: Heather Kemp

Cooling schools to protect students’ cognitive abilities over time

The article “Cumulative exposure to urban heat can affect the learning capacity of students and penalize the vulnerable and low-income young population: A systematic review,” which was recently published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLOS Climate, considered seven studies spanning 61 countries and roughly 14.5 million students on the subject as communities around the globe continue to face more extreme climate-related event.

Report explains how and why teens are using AI companions

A recent national representative survey of 13- to 17-year-olds found that 72 percent of teens have interacted with artificial intelligence (AI) companions, with 52 percent deemed as regular users who access the platforms “a few times a month or more,” 21 percent using it a few times per week and 13 percent utilizing it daily.

Teens value many of the same long-term goals as adults, but feel they will be harder to attain

Sixty-two percent of the 1,060 U.S. teens ages 13-17 who participated in a recent survey said that graduating college is extremely or very important to them, however, being able to pursue what they enjoy (82 percent), having a good standard of living (81 percent), a successful career (80 percent) and owning a home (72 percent) were top priorities.

How LEAs experience and can respond to hostility toward trustees

While school boards grapple with increased rates of hostility toward their members, they are concerned with the negativity’s potential spillover effects on students, according to the report Mitigating Threats Against School Board Officials: Mixed Methods Research to Understand and Respond to Rising Hostility — released in July by the Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI), a nonpartisan research initiative at Princeton University.