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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

She was 8 in January 2020, when earthquakes rocked the island, closing her school for three months while engineers inspected its physical structures to make sure they were safe for students to return. A book in an elementary school library — El Apagón means The Blackout. Compounded trauma from the barrage of disasters lingers.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

After that event, she completely just spiraled downward, couldn’t focus, and in class was often tearful.” The school stocks several Spanish titles in the library, and Woodson encouraged the children to keep up their Spanish. One student had a panic attack after seeing a small fight break out in the cafeteria.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020. Longitudinal studies of corporal punishment in schools internationally, meanwhile, have found the practice is correlated with lower math scores , lower motivation and diminished academic progress , along with increased absenteeism and dropout rates.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” ” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. Via Buzzfeed : “How Betsy DeVos Could Break Up The Charter School Coalition.” ” Contests and Awards.