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PROOF POINTS: Schools’ mission shifted during the pandemic with healthcare, shelter and adult ed

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Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report Much attention in the post-pandemic era has been on what students have lost – days of school, psychological health, knowledge and skills. We’ve seen partnering with the YMCA and with health groups for medical services and psychological evaluations.”

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PROOF POINTS: Why are kids still struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

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The average sixth grader knows more today in 2024 than he or she did in first grade in 2019. Sixth graders in 2024, on average, know far less than sixth graders did back in 2019. At the end of the 2023-24 school year, nearly as many kindergarteners were on grade level for phonics skills as kindergarteners in 2019.

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PROOF POINTS: How Covid narrowed the STEM pipeline

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government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Yet another explanation is a psychological one. Credit: CSA Images via Getty Images Universities, philanthropies, and even the U.S.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

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The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.” The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019. GROWING A GLOBAL SISTERHOOD It seems our work has seeded change.

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OPINION: Why segregation and racial gaps in education persist 70 years after the end of legal segregation

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Related: Reckoning with Mississippi’s ‘segregation academies’ Not surprisingly, in 2022, the Government Accountability Office declared that school segregation continues unabated. GDP from 1990 to 2019 would have been $22.9 trillion larger. This would benefit us all. This will help America’s quest to fulfill the promise of Brown.

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OPINION: It’s time to change the way students are disciplined in school

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The 2019 incident reminded me of what poet Maya Angelou once said: “When you know better, do better.”. Government Accountability Office reported that Black students represented 15.5 In 2019, he realized that some students weren’t coming to school because they were being bullied for wearing dirty clothes.

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Amid Campus Mental Health Crisis, Students Work to Support Each Other

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So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.