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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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TEACHER VOICE: College students who lack basic skills can learn to love reading and writing

The Hechinger Report

percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. This story about teaching community college was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5

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OPINION: A fresh start on school discipline isn’t optional — especially for schools serving underrepresented students

The Hechinger Report

Children at Risk reports that 66 percent of staff noticed behavioral problems with students related to stress around immigration. Both adults and kids need to modify their behavior from time to time — for example, when they want to change eating or exercise habits. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

An Associated Press reporter has had to visit the family in person to communicate. Louis, the Massachusetts town of Everett and Tupelo, Mississippi, have adopted similar policies, including tip lines to report neighbors who might be sending their children to schools outside of their enrollment zones. Communities such as St.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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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. Credit: Sarah Garland for The Hechinger Report. Your stories. math-teaching?experts.?

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

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Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Third grade students work on a paper parachute they’ve built as part of an engineering exercise at A.J. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.

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

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Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Some have gone to trade school, some have just gone off to get a job,” said the 20-year-old junior, who is majoring in exercise science at Virginia Commonwealth and is a mentor to fellow first-generation undergraduates.

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