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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

ED Surge

Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Board of Education decision.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

The stress of the pandemic made the need for suicide prevention education in Cody seem even more urgent to Cossaboon, who said he was one of three counselors responsible for 22 suicide risk evaluations during the first week the high school re-opened last fall. During the 2020 legislative session Rep. He said kids need more resources.

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The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

The Hechinger Report

All across the nation, students with senior years truncated by the pandemic are feeling a sense of loss as they try to understand what exactly it means to be part of the Class of 2020. Jarrin Rainey, 20, a 2020 graduate of Frederick A. Douglass High School , remembers his uncles pushing the family to safety in a boat.

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Seeking asylum in a time of Covid

The Hechinger Report

In March 2020, the government flew Vásquez, Ventura and their kids all the way to Berks County Residential Center , an immigration detention facility for families just over an hour outside of Philadelphia. on March 29, 2020, they had stopped in at least nine states during back-to-back bus rides over three days, even as life in the U.S.