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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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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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Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

The Hechinger Report

In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! You’re taught really about cultural competencies. This year there may be as few as 19. She is 35, and this wasn’t exactly her plan. “My It affects teaching quality. You’re taught about discipline.

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OPINION: Do U.S. colleges reinforce or reduce inequality?

The Hechinger Report

In “sharp contrast to other ages and other cultures,” Tough writes, “mobility in the United States today depends, in large part, on what happens to individuals during a relatively brief period in late adolescence and early adulthood.”. Between 2013 and 2018, the percentage of undergraduates at U.S.