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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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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. Related: Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve There is a critical need to prepare teachers to be intentional voices calling out the oppression that continues to plague our education system.

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When Student Anxiety Gets in the Way of Attending School

ED Surge

Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an advocacy group that provides professional training to schools. Since the pandemic, mental health strains on youth have been put in the spotlight.

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. Overall, students didn’t benefit academically, psychologically or socially from the practice.

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Using vocational education to teach academic courses

The Hechinger Report

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Photo: Amadou Diallo, for The Hechinger Report. REDMOND, Wash. —

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Switching majors is adding time and tuition to the already high cost of college

The Hechinger Report

Eventually she declared a major in psychology and a minor in art. years from all other kinds of institutions, the advocacy group Complete College America says. Now a senior at Chestnut Hill College, Erin Crowley changed her major from psychology to accounting. Photo: Saquan Stimpson for The Hechinger Report.

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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. Nevertheless, classical learning does periodically pop up in reactionary contexts.