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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. Birkholz believes state leadership is necessary.

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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.