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Articles by Marianna McMurdock

Marianna McMurdock is a staff reporter at The 74.

mental health

Surgeon General Wants Warning Label on Social Media for Youth Mental Health

Marianna McMurdock
mental health

For Chicago Girls Confronting Violence, A School Solution for Reducing PTSD

Marianna McMurdock
mental health

Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning May Impact School District Legal Surge

Marianna McMurdock
teacher pay

NYC Charter School Raises Teacher Starting Salary to $140,000

Marianna McMurdock
ESSER III

In Oklahoma, Squad of College Students Lead Math Recovery

Marianna McMurdock
mental health

74 Interview: Psychologist Deborah Offner on Educators as First Responders

Marianna McMurdock
mental health

Student Spotlight: How An Arizona Teen Animated Social Media Addiction

Marianna McMurdock
mental health

Teen Mental Health Crisis Pushes More School Districts to Sue Social Media Giants

Marianna McMurdock
mental health

1.3 Million Los Angeles Students Could Soon Access Free Teletherapy

Marianna McMurdock
mental health

Nearly 1 in 5 Teen Girls ‘Engulfed’ In Wave of Sexual Violence; Many Suicidal

Marianna McMurdock
higher education

Why Nearly Half of Black Students Have Considered Stopping College

Marianna McMurdock
mental health

What One NYC Educator’s Grief Reveals About Teachers’ Mental Health Struggles

Marianna McMurdock
Teaching History

How Educators Can Help Kids Make Sense of Tyre Nichols’s Death

Marianna McMurdock
The New Normal

Schools’ New Normal: Teacher Shortages, Repeat Meals, Late Buses, Canceled Classes

Marianna McMurdock, Joshua Bay & Meghan Gallagher
st. louis

District-University Partnership Shakes Up St. Louis School Leadership

Marianna McMurdock
audience survey

Audience Survey: What’s Your School’s New Normal?

Marianna McMurdock
mental health

A ‘New Normal’—National Student Survey Finds Mental Health Top Learning Obstacle

Marianna McMurdock
teacher shortages

Missing an Opportunity: Ed Dept. Criticized by GAO for Teacher Shortage Strategy

Marianna McMurdock
EDlection 2022

Incumbent California Schools Chief Wins Overwhelming Support for Second Term

Marianna McMurdock
teacher shortages

Breaking Down the Walls to Teaching: Alternative Pipelines Boom

Marianna McMurdock
philanthropy

The $1.1B Math Solution? Gates Foundation Makes Math Its Top K-12 Priority

Marianna McMurdock
K-12 education

Amid Regional Shortages, US Schools Employing 160,000 ‘Underqualified’ Teachers

Marianna McMurdock
archives

Surviving Genocide: Native Boarding School Archives Reveal Defiance, Loss & Love

Marianna McMurdock & Meghan Gallagher
higher education

Traditional University Teacher Ed Programs Face Enrollment Declines, Staff Cuts

Marianna McMurdock
education research

Fearing ‘Fiscal Cliff,’ District Leaders Reluctant to Hire Full-Time Teachers

Marianna McMurdock
civic engagement

‘Focused, Angry, Concerned About Creating Justice’—5 Generation Z Myths Debunked

Marianna McMurdock
K-12 staffing

New Teacher Shortage Research Shows Very Different Situations Across States

Marianna McMurdock
learning loss

122 Teachers Speak: Surviving Student Learning Loss, Behavior Challenges

Marianna McMurdock, Jasmine De Leon & Meghan Gallagher
Big Quit

To Prevent Principal Exodus, New Partnerships Offer $20K Stipends, Therapy

Marianna McMurdock
Weaving a Stronger Society — Starting in Our Schools

A Former Journalist Reignites an Intergenerational Haven For Portland’s Youth

Marianna McMurdock
Abortion

8 Ways Colleges Are Stepping Up After Roe Reversal

Marianna McMurdock
Featured

‘I’ve Been Having Nightmares…About Getting Shot’: Inside NYC March for Our Lives

Marianna McMurdock
Boarding Schools

Federal Probe into Native Boarding School Deaths Likely a Severe Undercount

Asher Lehrer-Small & Marianna McMurdock
leadership

Looming School Superintendent Exodus? Survey Shows 1 in 4 Expect to ‘Leave Soon’

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

3 COVID Learning Success Case Studies

Marianna McMurdock
1619 Project

Bringing 1619 Project, Black History to Life for Young Readers

Marianna McMurdock
education leadership

Growing Fears in Schools About Looming 'Mass Exodus' of Principals This Summer

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

Black Mothers Launch Microschools to End School-Prison Pipeline

Marianna McMurdock
black students

Black, Latino Students Disproportionately Taught by Inexperienced Teachers

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

Majority of Americans Back Remote Learning to Prevent COVID Spread

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

NYC Public School Students Walk Out of 29+ Schools Protesting In-Person Learning

Marianna McMurdock & Meghan Gallagher
News

5 Things to Remember as 10-Week Columbia Student Workers’ Strike Ends

Marianna McMurdock
bay area

To Fill Special Ed Vacancies, CA Charter Network Sponsors Credentials

Marianna McMurdock
Alberto Carvalho

4 Things to Know About Los Angeles Unified’s New Schools Chief

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

Four States Increase Access to Youth Mental Health Care

Marianna McMurdock
black students

‘Jim Crow Debt’: Most Black Borrowers Regret Student Loans

Marianna McMurdock
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

$9M of Chan Zuckerberg Grants to Bring in More Teachers, School Leaders of Color

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

Photo Story: Inside a Local Pharmacy Offering Vaccines to Kids

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

New School Data: 2021 Math & Reading Scores Reveal Widening Academic Divide

Marianna McMurdock
climate change

Education Solutions Gain Steam on Eve of UN Climate Conference

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

5 Alarming New Undergraduate Enrollment Numbers

Marianna McMurdock
HBCUs

Sit-in for Better Housing Enters Second Week at Howard University

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

Puerto Rico Boasts Highest Youth, School Staff Vaccination Rates

Marianna McMurdock
The 74 Interview

TX Valedictorian on Viral Speech, New Book on Ignored Abortion Stories

Marianna McMurdock
finance

All Rhode Island High Schools Now Required to Offer Personal Finance

Marianna McMurdock
AFT

Bipartisan Coalition Pushes for Climate Resilient, Sustainable Schools

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

Districts Across the U.S. Offering Big Incentives to Subs, Special Ed Teachers

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

Few California High Schoolers Applied for Pass/No Pass Grading

Marianna McMurdock
back to school

NYC Schools Reopen In Person — What the First Hour Looked Like in the Bronx

Marianna McMurdock
Boston

MIT Students Make STEM Come Alive for Boston Middle Schoolers

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

58% of NYC Youth Needing Mental Health Help Amid COVID Say They Didn’t Get It

Marianna McMurdock
college retention

This State Is Paying for College Success Coaches to Aid Student Loan Borrowers

Marianna McMurdock
The Big Picture

Education is a Top Priority for Black Women — as High as Fighting Racism

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

D.C. Charter School Makes Mindfulness Part of School Day

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

Mental Health Leading Barrier to Learning, Fewer Students College-Bound

Marianna McMurdock
climate advocacy

How Urgent Push for Climate Education Can Help Mental Health, Engagement

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

DonorsChoose Crowdfunding Students’ Basic Needs During COVID

Marianna McMurdock
afterschool

Rocket Science Made Accessible to Boston Girls in Summer Hybrid Program

Marianna McMurdock
Pandemic

Boston Expands Pre-K for 3-Year-Olds After Pandemic’s Disruption

Marianna McMurdock
history

Juneteenth Gains Legal Popularity, but Misses Classroom Recognition

Marianna McMurdock
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