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A researcher said the evidence on special education inclusion is flawed. Readers weighed in

The Hechinger Report

The article notes that Dr. Fuchs is concentrating on academic outcomes and acknowledges that inclusion may have psychological or social benefits that were [not] studied. Social or psychological benefitslike peer interaction, belonging, and reduced isolationarent incidental to learning/academic achievement. She emailed me.

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Why Don’t Early Childhood Programs Have Access to Substitute Teachers?

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Its physically, emotionally and psychologically demanding work, and we provide no respite, from a system or policy level, for this, she adds. Nicole Lazarte, now the policy and advocacy communications specialist at NAEYC, was recently working as an infant teacher at an early childhood center in northern Virginia.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

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Fiske had been previously employed by an independent school in California, while in a doctoral program for education psychology, researching how people learn, she says. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa. DeSantis’ move “transcends partisanship,” West wrote, because seminal ideas are always “revolutionary.”

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

Isolating people in solitary confinement often enables other (unsanctioned but nonetheless ubiquitous) abusive practices, including many forms of physical, psychological, and sexual violence. Survivors of solitary confinement experience severe mental health challenges that affect them for the rest of their lives; many do not survive.

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In an Era of Natural Disasters, Can Schools Double Down On Trauma Training?

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But for some children, schools can help with recovery from the psychological strain that disasters cause. Psychological First Aid In her work helping schools to build more robust mental health services, it dawned on Villaverde that it wasnt enough to train staff to intervene when a student is in the midst of a mental health crisis.

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Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students

The Hechinger Report

The program, called the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, is run by a national nonprofit, Active Minds, which advocates for college students mental health. In the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, she encourages students to think about what their communities need and what kinds of support they and their peers might benefit from.

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School clubs for gay students move underground after Kentucky’s anti-LGBTQ law goes into effect

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. In 2023 alone, 542 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced by state legislatures or in Congress, according to an LGBTQ-legislation tracker , with many of them focused on young people.

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