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Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

The Hechinger Report

She recently worked with a young woman who loves libraries. Her developmental disability prevented her from attending a traditional college, but she took courses online and became a librarians assistant at a public library in Long Island. Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school.

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Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants

Sapiens

rose-ringed or ring-necked parakeet) was included in The Naturalists Library , an illustrated natural history series popular in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. According to medical anthropologist Eileen Moyer , the sculptor Nicolas Dings included this imagery to invoke thoughts of cultural diversity and tolerance toward migrants.

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A Third of Homeless Students Are Chronically Absent. Would an ‘Attendance Culture’ Help?

ED Surge

The places where the adults tasked with that responsibility (known as McKinney-Vento workers because of the law that funds their jobs) connected with these students, like public libraries, closed down. As many as 37 percent of homeless students are chronically absent, according to a report from the National Center for Homeless Education.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

was published on July 12, 2022. Digital books have become extremely popular among students in some regions of Asia, but students who read books on paper still outperformed even in cultures where digital reading is commonplace. The report, “ Does the digital world open up an increasing divide in access to print books? ”

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Often overwhelmed on big campuses, rural college students push for support

The Hechinger Report

Most students in the California State University, Chico library were silently poring over books or computers on a recent afternoon, but one group was tucked into a corner peppering university president Stephen Perez with questions. CHICO, Calif. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times What’s the world’s smallest mountain range?

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Sociology Film Club

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A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]