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

The Hechinger Report

The black community expressed dismay that all symbols of black accomplishment — plaques, citations, trophies, and class pictures — were removed and tossed aside when the all-black Coleman High School was converted into an integrated middle school. Sacrificing Coleman High School.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

Ryan Moten, a freshman at Vaux, with his grandmother and baby sister, after he gave a school presentation about his plans for the future. 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.

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The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

The Hechinger Report

I left behind the ‘trying-to-fit-in’ in middle school,” she said. “I Along with her determination to re-invent herself, she set lofty academic goals: She wanted to become president of Cohen’s student government and be named class valedictorian with a 4.0 Still, he was held back twice, in fifth grade and again in junior high. “It