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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

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Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. Yet at the beginning of 2014, Ruth Cady became pregnant.

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Temple University is spending millions to get more students through college, but is there a cheaper way?

The Hechinger Report

We had all of these high-impact programs, but there were no students in the library, or in the writing center, or in the career center,” said Jones. “We Temple has seen the proportion of its students who return for their sophomore year increase from 70 percent in 2001 to 82 percent in 2014.

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How one Chicago high school turned the corner using full-time internships

The Hechinger Report

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. From 2014 to 2016, the percentage of ChiTech freshmen on track to graduate in four years rose from 63 to 78 percent.

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A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’

The Hechinger Report

For Tulane University psychology chair Stacy Overstreet, a leader of the five-school collaborative, work with Crocker and other trauma-sensitive schools flows from her work in New Orleans’ public-housing projects, where she found shockingly high rates of children suffering the psychological effects of being exposed to violence.

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Schools struggle to help students return to class after a mental health crisis

The Hechinger Report

But eventually she agreed to transition back to school while spending one period a day in the program’s dedicated classroom, where she received emotional and psychological support and assistance catching up on the schoolwork she’d missed. The school’s makeshift library spills from one dedicated classroom into an adjacent hallway.

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Pulling reservation schools back from the brink

The Hechinger Report

Hays-Lodge Pole High School “was in total disarray,” when Margarett Campbell, who has served as her region’s state representative in the Montana legislature, took over as superintendent in 2014. “It There is no grocery store, no movie theater, no bowling ally, no public library. The unemployment rate in Hays in 2014 was 25 percent.

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School clubs for gay students move underground after Kentucky’s anti-LGBTQ law goes into effect

The Hechinger Report

For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it. The Legislative Record from Monday, April 17, 2023, on display at the Owen County Public Library.

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