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To Boost Mental Health, Try Team Sports or Group Exercise

MindShift

He still struggles with depression and social anxiety, but says exercising helps him — especially when it’s with his teammates. million adults and found — across age, gender, education status and income — people who exercised reported fewer days of bad mental health than those who didn’t.

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

The Hechinger Report

Then, they made way for the next group of students, who were eager to drop their own bag from the staircase in hope of a different result. A Michelin engineer picked it up off the concrete and opened it, revealing a cracked, leaking egg. The third graders at A.J. Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce.

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Hacking the Education Narrative with Dungeons & Dragons

MindShift

No longer played in the shameful obscurity of closed dorms and basements, Dungeons & Dragons groups are claiming public spaces, and campaigns are proudly streamed on Twitch, YouTube and featured in dozens of popular podcasts. Hacking the Education Narrative. The Return of the King.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of their predecessors had done: going to college. The number who went on to higher education inched up, to 57 percent from 56 percent. “We

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Read the stories.

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College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For decades, a handful of individual states and schools have offered financial assistance to Native students. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I

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How Writing Down Specific Goals Can Empower Struggling Students

MindShift

He co-authored a paper that demonstrates a startling effect: nearly erasing the gender and ethnic minority achievement gap for 700 students over the course of two years with a short written exercise in setting goals. In it, students complete a set of writing exercises that combine expressive writing with goal-setting.