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

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Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. They didn't want to work in groups.

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Advocates hope pandemic shift away from requiring SAT and ACT will help diversity

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It also withdrew from the National Merit Scholarship Program, which is based on the preliminary SAT, or PSAT, taken by high school sophomores and juniors. High-scoring students can receive scholarships from the program as well as from participating universities and colleges. “We percent in 2017 to 15 percent in 2020.

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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. The new Vaux welcomed its first class of 126 ninth-graders in September; it plans to serve 504 students by 2020. 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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School support staffers stuck earning poverty level wages

The Hechinger Report

Educator strikes have also increased across the country since 2020, not only among teachers, but among the school staff who support them. She was diagnosed with dyslexia in fourth grade, and couldn’t read until junior high, when she received reading intervention and worked one-on-one with a paraprofessional.

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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

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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.