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Quick… what’s your answer?

💻 Should students use iPads in school?
🎓 Is college worth it?
🩸 Would you let a high schooler draw your blood?

We’re tackling these questions (and many more) in Season 11 of the MindShift Podcast!

Which topic are you most excited to hear about?👇

🎧 Listen through the link in bio! by @mindshiftkqed

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2 months ago

Lynette Duncan didn’t expect to spend 20 hours over the past two weeks digging through a mothballed computer system, trying to retrieve admissions data from 2019.

She runs a one-person office that handles university data collections and analyses for at John Brown University, a small Christian university in northwest Arkansas.

Just last year, she spent months collecting and crunching new data to comply with a new federal rule requiring that colleges show that their graduates are prepared for good jobs.

Then, in mid-December, another mandate abruptly arrived — this one at the request of President Donald Trump.

Duncan is hoping she can finish the reporting in less than 200 hours, if there are no setbacks when she uploads the data. “If I get errors, it could take double the time,” she said.

This story about college admissions data was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

Read the full article at KQED.org/mindshift and sign up for @jillbarshay’s weekly newsletter Proof Points at hechingerreport.org/proofpoints by @mindshiftkqed

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8 months ago

Columnist Jill Barshay explains why universal preschool promised equity but benefits went to the wealthy.

California finally rolled out free preschool for all 4-year-olds in the 2025-26 school year, after more than a decade of expanding what the state calls transitional kindergarten. Many advocates hoped the move would ease child care shortages and close learning gaps between rich and poor. But a new University of California, Berkeley, study of Los Angeles shows the opposite happened: More than 150 child care centers closed, and the biggest beneficiaries were families in the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods.

Why does free preschool sometimes backfire? The Berkeley report can’t definitively answer that, but the study’s lead author, Bruce Fuller, a retired Berkeley sociologist who has studied early childhood education for decades, says the new public school seats siphoned 4-year-olds away from community child care centers and private preschools. Many centers lost revenue when children left, and it wasn’t easy to pivot to serving younger toddlers or infants.

“We found this worrisome finding that the death rate, so to speak, of pre-K centers has accelerated since the governor moved toward universal access” to transitional kindergarten, Fuller said. “Private pay centers can’t survive.”

You can get Jill's column published at The Hechinger Report and MindShift every Monday.

Comment PROOF POINTS to get Jill's newsletter delivered to your inbox. by @mindshiftkqed

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10 months ago

Inauguration Day was a time of hope for the MAGA faithful who watched President Donald Trump take his second oath of office in the Capitol rotunda. But less than a mile away, at the Department of Education, fear and uncertainty reigned.

Researchers, contractors and federal staff — the corner of the Education Department that I cover — braced for potentially devastating upheaval.

As many as 16 members from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team embedded within the agency in early February, according to news reports.

Decades of painstaking work vanished overnight.

Read the full article at kqed.org/mindshift and sign up for Proof Points at hechingerreport.org/newsletters

This story about the Trump administration and the Education Department was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, and reported by Jill Barshay. by @mindshiftkqed

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10 months ago

The teaching profession is one of the most female-dominated in the United States.

Many sociologists, writers and parents have questioned whether this imbalance hinders young boys at the start of their education.

The recent study, “Fixed Effect Estimates of Teacher-Student Gender Matching During Elementary School,” analyzed a U.S. Education Department dataset that followed a nationally representative group of 8,000 students from kindergarten in 2010 through fifth grade in 2017.

Read the full article at kqed.org/mindshift and sign up for Proof Points at hechingerreport.org/newsletters

This story about male teachers was reported by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. by @mindshiftkqed

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10 months ago

Even with the government shut down, lots of people are thinking about how to reimagine federal education research.

Public comments on how to reform the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the Education Department’s research and statistics arm, were due on Oct. 15.

A total of 434 suggestions were submitted, but no one can read them because the department isn’t allowed to post them publicly until the government reopens.

Read the full article at kqed.org/mindshift and sign up for Proof Points at hechingerreport.org/newsletters

This story about risks to federal education data was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, and reported by Jill Barshay.

#publiceducation #k12education #mindshift #hechingerreport #kqed by @mindshiftkqed

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a year ago

Public libraries have made significant transformations over the past decade to better serve community needs in the wake of technological and social change.

Now, as public school funding faces an uncertain future, how will libraries step in? We talk to some library kids who go to teen-only spaces after school and hear about how librarians are working hard to meet their needs.

🎧 Listen to the latest episode of MindShift, “Why Teens Love to Hang Out at the Library.”

🔗 Link in bio to listen!

#library #librarylife by @mindshiftkqed

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a year ago

Teacher Ivy Mitchell has spent two decades helping students understand how government works. But recently, her eighth-grade civics students didn’t see a clear role for themselves in democracy, particularly because they were learning within the confines of the classroom.

So, she tried something new – she invited older adults into her classroom to participate on a panel to answer a basic question, “Why do we have civics?”

Panelists shared first-hand stories about the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and women’s rights, which brought history to life for students in a way textbooks rarely do. In turn, the older adults asked students about their views on artificial intelligence and whether they were interested in civic life and volunteering.

Her hope for both the older adults and students was that they would connect with one another through learning about each other and start building community connections.

Research shows intergenerational programs can improve students’ empathy, literacy and civic engagement, but developing those relationships outside of the home are hard to come by.

#civics #civicseducation
#intergenerationallearning by @mindshiftkqed

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a year ago

💔 Remember your first friendship breakup?

For kids, that kind of heartbreak is REAL and science shows it can feel just as painful as a romantic breakup.

Too often, adults brush it off as “just drama.” But what kids really need is someone who’ll listen, validate, and simply be there.

🎧 Hear more in the latest episode of MindShift, “How to Help Kids Through Friendship Breakups Without Making Things Worse”

🔗 Link in bio to listen! by @mindshiftkqed

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Karalee Wong Nakatsuka has been a history teacher at the same middle school in Arcadia – a community with a population that’s 57% Asian – since 1990. She had felt well-versed in American history throughout much of her career, but it wasn’t until a pivotal year in the lives of so many that she developed an even deeper understanding of Asian American history: 2020.

The spread of COVID-19 and the anti-China sentiment that ensued spilled over to Asian Americans. There was also the murder of George Floyd, which was enabled by an Asian American police officer. Asian elders were being targeted with violence, including one 84-year-old man who was pushed to his death. In 2021, six women of Asian descent were killed in the Atlanta spa shooting.

The lack of understanding of the Asian American experience propelled Nakatsuka to contribute to a summer program to help 36 middle and high school teachers teach the richness of AAPI history. The program became a welcome resource, especially for Asian American students who were not learning about AAPI history at home.

Listen to the latest episode of Mindshift by clicking on the link in our bio!

#aapi ##aapihistory #aapihistory by @mindshiftkqed

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a year ago

The sit and reach. Push ups. Sit ups. The mile run. The challenges of the Presidential Fitness Test have evolved over the decades since its inception, and it has invoked many strong feelings and reactions to match.

We asked listeners to share their memories and stories of the Presidential Fitness Test and received many great calls and comments, from both those who disliked the test and those who look back on it fondly.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation at kqed.org/forum, on the KQED app or wherever you get your podcasts.

#kqedforum #publicmedia #publicradio #fitness #physicaleducation #presidentialfitnesstest #exercise #wellness #backtoschool by @mindshiftkqed

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When Kyle, a 10th grader at Palo Alto High School, walked into his final debate of the day, he was hoping for an easy finish to a long tournament. Instead, he found himself face-to-face with an opponent known for being challenging and loud. “The entire round she was screaming at the top of her lungs,” Kyle recalled. “It really tested my ability to stay calm. There were so many times I wanted to scream back, but I didn’t.”

Kyle’s experience isn’t unique. From school board meetings to online comment sections, many people have been in situations where emotions take over and voices rise. At a time when public discourse often feels combative and chaotic, high school speech and debate helps students learn how to stay composed in these moments, to speak with intention, and to listen when tensions run high.

“Speech and debate offers this amazing gift,” said Kyle Hietala, a speech and debate coach at Palo Alto High School. “No matter what event you’re in, you’re guaranteed a set amount of time to speak. No interruptions. No shouting over you. Your voice will be heard.” Additionally, speech and debate allows students to experiment with different communication styles, source reliable information and practice public speaking.

For Kyle, the student, the experience has been transformative.

... “I became more confident, less shy; it got easier to get my point across.”

Listen to the latest episode of Mindshift by clicking on the link in our bio!

#highschooldebate by @mindshiftkqed

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