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

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Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. 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.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

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Zach Osborn, teacher at Clinton High School. Board of Education mandated the end of segregated schooling, Mississippi’s children still largely attend schools identifiable by race. Sumner Hill Junior High, now the district’s ninth-grade school, used to be a majority-black school before the district incorporated it into its zone.

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Institutions for foster kids aren’t doing enough to educate them

The Hechinger Report

This story about the foster care and education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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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. But who they are and why some of them don’t support public education is a more complicated question.

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

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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.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. The school’s rebirth as Vaux Big Picture High School symbolizes the latest great experiment in the Philadelphia school district.

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

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educational inequality, concluded that if desegregation were to work anywhere in the Deep South, it would be in this town, an oasis of tolerance and pragmatic gentility in the Mississippi Delta, the blackest, poorest, “most southern place on earth.”. Board of Education decision in 1954. “If Department of Education.