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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. Depending upon which fields you include in the humanities bucket, the drop in graduates is somewhere between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

ED Surge

When Trayvon Martin was killed, my students and I watched a 2012 clip of Gerardo Rivera blaming Trayvon for his death simply because he wore a hoodie. They all pushed for a more expansive understanding of Black humanity by embracing their unique identities and expressing their love for Black culture.

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A checklist no one wants: 8 steps to take after a school shooting

The Hechinger Report

Martin and a group of Columbine survivors founded The Rebels Project in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting, this time at a movie theater in Aurora in 2012. In the week following an incident, the focus is on understanding what happened and dealing with the immediate psychological issues students and staff may be experiencing.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.” psychology class.

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Why Some Teachers Don't Want to Go ‘Back to Normal’

ED Surge

EdSurge connected with educators who decided to leave the classroom this year and with researchers focused on child psychology and student achievement to better understand how turnover impacts teachers and students—and why the retention crisis remains, despite efforts to return to normalcy.

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. But what is it, exactly? Expense is not the only hurdle.

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Needing students, Appalachian colleges reach out to fast-growing Hispanic population

The Hechinger Report

They got small grants in 2012 of $50,000 each from the Appalachian College Association , or ACA, to work on the issue. With the help of several scholarships, Jose Perez enrolled at the school in 2012 as a freshman. In 2012, there were 66 Hispanic students, or 4 percent of the total. Photo: Jesse Pratt. Alan Miramontes (l.),

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