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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. 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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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. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Board of Education decision.

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

The Hechinger Report

The Coleman Report became legendary, fueling and informing debates that are still raging today. A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation’s public schools is getting worse, not better. One junior high, T.L. Story continues below video. What did matter was integration.

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

The Hechinger Report

Warning signs were given, statements were made,” and yet, Cossaboon said, those students “didn’t know how to respond and kept that information to themselves thinking that they were doing the right thing and not betraying that person’s trust.”. In two of those cases, Cossaboon said he counseled kids who were close to the students who died.

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Switching sides in the teacher wars

The Hechinger Report

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. She made it as an eighth-grader at Tulsa’s Nimitz Junior High School for a project researching career options. Four union members running for state government won their primaries last year.

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Seeking asylum in a time of Covid

The Hechinger Report

In March 2020, the government flew Vásquez, Ventura and their kids all the way to Berks County Residential Center , an immigration detention facility for families just over an hour outside of Philadelphia. The district said it had informed them that immunizations were available through charitable donations.).