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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. Lee Academy in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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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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