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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

ED Surge

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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We need more black and brown teachers but not for the reasons you think

The Hechinger Report

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. White students absorb these same cultural cues. Cultural differences influence teaching efficacy, however. Washington teaches a class in 1916. In addition, effective teaching matters.

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We know how to help young kids cope with the trauma of the last year — but will we do it?

The Hechinger Report

But decades of research on child development have also made clear that trauma is not caused by isolated events alone. We will see the short-term impacts,” said Cynthia Osborne, director of the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at the University of Texas at Austin. “We But we will also see this for decades to come.