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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

Data from the 2021 Healthy Minds Study shows 34 percent of college respondents struggling with anxiety disorder and 41 percent with depression — rates that have risen in recent years. The school also hired two intake and triage coordinators who screen students to assess what help they need.

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How to help struggling young readers

The Hechinger Report

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In After an initial assessment, he determined that early reading instruction was one of the school’s glaring weaknesses. “We

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Your stories. You know, we haven’t been doing this for that long, right?

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EdTech Promised to Change How Students Learn, But the Real Revolution Lies Within Us

Edsurge

The company promised to revolutionize how students were taught, except without teachers. The company measured its success based on a curriculum created directly from the test; as it turns out, the company profited off the students' lesson progression.

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How to Prepare Students in the Early Years to Read at Grade Level

MindShift

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. The program is research-based, said Lynette Guastaferro, chief executive officer of ERM’s parent company, Teaching Matters.

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Students who drop out for mental health struggles are turning to pricey programs to find their way back

The Hechinger Report

But approximately 113,000 students took leaves of absence in 2021, which included medical leaves for mental health reasons, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse did not provide information on how many leaves were for mental health reasons, or on how long students typically were out of school. (The

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

The Hechinger Report

In August 2021, after successive waves of infection saw schools open and close, in-person schooling finally resumed for students on the island, but not for long. Puerto Rico’s student population has dropped by almost half in 15 years, from almost 550,000 in 2006 to 276,413 in 2021, a decline caused by disasters, mismanagement and migration.