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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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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

Researchers have found that students in diverse schools can become less prejudiced and more empathetic, and may work harder. So Belue started a new policy during the 1972-73 school year: students would have to elect one white student and one black student at large to student government, as well as to the homecoming court.

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

The Hechinger Report

. — Back when he still lived with his family, when school was across the street from his home in West Philadelphia, Johnathan Hamilton used to plow through reading assignments and research religious questions online. And government oversight is lacking. Another foster student, M.S.,

Education 110
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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The Hechinger Report

A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation’s public schools is getting worse, not better. Meanwhile, years of research underscore what the Coleman Report pointed to 50 years ago, a real correlation between segregation and an educational achievement gap along lines of class and race.

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

The Hechinger Report

And research shows teaching people to intervene does lower suicide rates. “If Research shows that training teachers and staff helps, but it has limitations. Morris explained that research now suggests the opposite: Open and frank conversations diffuse the situation and help people feel less alone. The goal is to offer hope.

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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. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.