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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. Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. When we got into the classroom, the students were shy.

Cultures 140
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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses. Higher education is falling behind, hospitals are stretched thin and getting through programs can be an arduous journey. She remembers being named valedictorian of her junior high, and as a result winning a scholarship to St.

Economics 118
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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win. This story also appeared in Wyoming Public Media. “I Ultimately, the bill failed.

Education 131
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The (mostly) Republican Idaho moms fighting to reclaim their school district from hard-right conservatives  

The Hechinger Report

Dana Douglas, a Republican Christian Conservative who is “100 percent pro-public education, and I am pro every child” readies to make voter reminder calls on Election Day. It’s about the viability of public education in their community. Anyone with a scowl” who would not look her in the eye was in the other. This is not hyperbole.