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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. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. They didn't want to work in groups.

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These glasses give teachers superpowers

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. He is a teacher at Hopewell Junior High School in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Subscribe today!

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Advocates hope pandemic shift away from requiring SAT and ACT will help diversity

The Hechinger Report

And white and well-off students from better-resourced high schools and with greater access to private tutoring score better on these tests, according to ACT and the College Board — which administers the SAT — themselves. allowed students to forgo submitting scores this year.