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Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth? Experts say it’s complicated

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There’s no shortage of peer support programs to evaluate, and tools used to deploy them are evolving to become more professional and accessible in an increasingly digital world. Definitely more scalable options.”. The post Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth? Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Elementary schools like P.S. 124 are the “new frontier, because upper elementary is a great time to introduce kids to theater.”

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

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It feels really good and really important that our children… have access to in-person, five-day-a-week education. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. He’s definitely turned around. There definitely are some [teachers I trust] and there’s definitely some that I would not.

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The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

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The transition going from high school to college was definitely difficult,” he said. The transition going from high school to college was definitely difficult. “I remember sitting down and trying to remember all those words that were on those two pages,” he said. “I I utterly failed it. I got three words right.”.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

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On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. There are gifted dropouts.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

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“Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.