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1,685 people surveyed were experiencing anxiety or depression due to the pandemic.
Students in India and across the world have been braving more than their fair share of challenges for over a year now. The prolonged closure of schools, the online classes, the lack of peer-bonding, the absence of outdoor sports, the uncertainty over exams, the altered curricula, the excessive screen time and the social isolation have now cumulated into what can be called the Covid fatigue among students.
In a study conducted by Asian Journal of Psychiatry on the impact of Covid-19 on Indian students, 68.7 per cent respondents displayed signs of mild anxiety and 61 per cent showed signs of mild depression. A broader study conducted on the general population by Indian Journal of Psychiatry found that two-fifth (40 per cent) of the 1,685 people surveyed were experiencing anxiety or depression due to the pandemic.Â
The Arizona Department of Education building in downtown Phoenix.
The Arizona Department of Education is allocating an additional $16 million of its discretionary COVID-19 relief funds, it announced Tuesday. The money is part of the $135.5 million in discretionary funds that the department received from two federal COVID-19 relief packages. With these new allocations, the department has now allocated $116 million of these funds.
The $16 million will be invested into efforts focused on student equity and achievement, teacher recruitment and retention, and college access and attainment. This includes a partnership on an ASU summer math program for K-12 students, and a laptop and hotspot partnership with the city of Phoenix.
Mt. Grace gets funding for Toy Town trail project
The Whitney Memorial Forest, as seen looking across the Millers River and Tannery Pond from the center of Winchendon. The Athol-based Mt. Grace Land Conservation Trust recently received a grant from the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts to establish trails in the nearby 90-acre forest. Staff photo/Greg Vine
Published: 5/10/2021 8:07:58 AM
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ATHOL The Mt. Grace Land Conservation Trust recently landed a $7,500 grant from the Fitchburg-based Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts to undertake a trail project in the town of Winchendon. Mt. Grace was awarded one of 11 Environmental Preservation and Animal Welfare grants totaling just over $72,000.
The General Assembly’s
Education Committee
likely finished up its work for this legislative session and approved a final flurry of bills prior to its April 6, 2021 deadline for approving and advancing bills out of committee. Here is a summary of the bills approved by the Education Committee (which now await action by the full General Assembly).
“TUITIONING OUT” ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
S.B. No. 1036 (“
An Act Authorizing Boards Of Education To Pay Tuition To Another Board Of Education For The Purpose Of Enrolling Its Elementary School Students In Such Other School District”) would allow a local board of education to pay tuition to another school district for sending its elementary and middle school students to that other school district (in lieu of the sending board operating its own schools for the grade levels involved). Currently, a local board of education that does not maintain a high school has that authority with respect to high school students.
Educationally Speaking May 4, 2021
Tonight, on
Educationally Speaking, we are talking to a panel of guests about how our Nevada County schools are and will be working with Social Emotional Learning, SEL, for our teachers and students alike. Our guests consist of local leaders like Andrea Marks, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Accountability for Nevada County Superintendent of Schools, Emily Gallup, an MFT certified counselor who works with Forest Charter and Grass Valley School districts, Jaclyn Sayklay and Nicole Murphy who are school psychologists for Nevada Joint Union High School district, and Megan Taplin, a school psychologist for Pleasant Ridge School district.