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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. Richard Leon Linfield has taught English, philosophy, world religions and film studies at nine colleges and universities, including the College of Santa Fe and Central New Mexico Community College. In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

The Hechinger Report

As part of the program, the freshmen engage in intensive community-building exercises, including tending to animals, learning to rock climb, running a restaurant — and coaching each other as they run for student government. Related: A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school.

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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. A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. math-teaching?experts.?

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

The Hechinger Report

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. She runs through pre-kindergarten counting exercises on a phone. One of the biggest problems that we have is kids that are missing and chronic absenteeism,” says Pamela Herd, a Georgetown University public policy professor.

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

The Hechinger Report

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. The Brookings study counts 100 regional public universities serving 1.2 There is big tension over purpose and identity.”. Basic questions — Who should O.U. What kind of school is it?

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