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Can children learn from a “mixed-reality” game?

The Hechinger Report

Yannier’s invention, by contrast, is a giant piece of furniture intended for schools and museums. In 2015 she began testing her shaking table contraption to see how well young kids, ages 6 through 8, could learn basic physics principles from it. The machine looks more like a museum installation than classroom equipment.

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‘A child is not a revolving door’

The Hechinger Report

Since November 2015, Alyssa had lived in foster care, and her time with her mother had been restricted to twice-weekly visits, meted out one hour or so at a time, in the drab office of a child welfare organization and under the supervision of a caseworker. She also loves the bevy of field trips, community meetings, parent nights and outings.

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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

“They made me waste one year of my life,” Al Aas says, a weary smile on his face as he recounts his endless efforts to untangle red tape while living off his income working at a Berlin museum devoted to the Cold War. One asks for more information about the psychological counseling offered, which covers stress, depression and homesickness.

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Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

The Hechinger Report

I applied and won, and that fall, the organization flew me to see the museum and meet the publisher of USA Today. By 2015, Pierre-Floyd and the school’s fourth principal—a black New Orleanian named Joey LaRoche—had pulled the school’s rating up to a B. She wanted to major in psychology and minor in criminal law, she told me.

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What it’s like to be a transgender student in Mississippi

The Hechinger Report

“That would be public schools, a museum, lots of places wherever there’s federal tax dollars. In the 2014-2015 school year, federal funding made up almost 15 percent of Mississippi’s total revenue for school districts—$672,385,143. “It’s not the same.

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Inside the oil industry’s not-so-subtle push into K-12 education

The Hechinger Report

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. Listed as a contact for an all-expenses-paid teachers’ worksho p in 2015 promoting “Arkansas Energy Rocks!”

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From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S.

The Hechinger Report

“They made me waste one year of my life,” Al Aas says, a weary smile on his face as he recounts his endless efforts to untangle red tape while living off his income working at a Berlin museum devoted to the Cold War. One asks for more information about the psychological counseling offered, which covers stress, depression and homesickness.