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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. It’s true that there are not enough professionals to meet rising demand. That is changing. Counselor burnout is real.)

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Greenville County Schools has begun partnering with companies in the area, such as BMW and Michelin, to develop courses in mechatronics and automotive research. Each high school has specialties as well: Fountain Inn High School, which opened in 2021, was built with manufacturing and STEM in mind.

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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

The Hechinger Report

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve. He was 40 years old.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Nathan Levenson, former CEO at a crane-manufacturing company. Your stories.

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How to help struggling young readers

The Hechinger Report

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills. So far, results are promising.

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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.

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

MindShift

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills. So far, results are promising.

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