Archive — Education

2011

• The State of Mental Health on College Campuses: A Growing Crisis

2009

• Campus Suicide Prevention Program

  Sixty percent of senior student affairs officers surveyed reported that a record number of students are using campus counseling services for longer periods of time than ever before.

• APA Letter to National Assessment Governing Board (PDF, 47KB)

Earlier Information and Activities

• Elementary & Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind) Reauthorization

  APA's recommendations for ESEA reauthorization are comprehensive and far-reaching. Generally, they seek to integrate what we know from psychology and psychology research to improve teaching and learning, as well as to expand opportunities for psychologists working in schools and with children and adolescents.

• School-Based Research Advocacy

  Researchers are concerned that, because they are required now to produce policies, school districts will adopt stringent policies without understanding the consequences to research.

• National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant Program (PDF, 105KB)