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Should taxpayers and schools invest in ‘growth mindset’ programs?

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“We didn’t find evidence for profound effects and large gains,” said Brooke Macnamara, a Case Western psychology professor and lead author of the study , published in the April 2018 issue of Psychological Science. The federal government is funding a $3.5 “It couldn’t possibly work everywhere.

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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

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Residents say the federal government has been slow to respond, and with so much rental housing destroyed , housing options are limited. In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers,” said Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College who researches the mental health impacts of natural disasters on children.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

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A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

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Colleges start looking for ways to house and feed their students who are homeless

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In some cases, colleges and universities are trying to avoid losing enrollment; not surprisingly, students in unstable living environments or who can’t afford food have poorer physical health, symptoms of depression, and psychological stress and are more likely to drop out , research shows. z Development, a private developer.

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The debate over students with learning disabilities, suspensions and race

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Indeed, the Obama administration was so worried that black kids with learning disabilities were getting suspended from school too often that it used the nation’s laws that govern educating students with disabilities to create a new rule for states to monitor discipline rates among racial and ethnic groups.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

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Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation. Nationwide, high schools offering credit recovery used online courses 71 percent of the time, according to a 2018 U.S. Department of Education brief. It wasn’t popular.

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These schools are opening their arms to special education students. Can they afford it?

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The state-run Recovery School District governed most of the charter schools in New Orleans at the time. The net of medical and psychological services that support children outside of school is riddled with holes, which makes services within the school system all the more important. But sometimes good intentions aren’t enough.