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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. Meng So, director of the undocumented-student resource center at UC Berkeley since it became the first in the nation in 2012, said he’s gotten dozens of how-to inquiries from other schools.

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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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As enrollment falls and public skepticism grows, some colleges are cutting their prices

The Hechinger Report

In the 10 years through 2016, college tuition and fees increased by 63 percent , or three times as much as all the other products and services measured by the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. A lot of it has to do with psychology,” said Stuebner. Annual increases in the cost of college long surpassed inflation.

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PROOF POINTS: Rethinking claims of racial bias in special education

The Hechinger Report

The disabilities range from dyslexia and speech impairments to emotional and psychological disorders that include hyperactivity and aggression. The federal government monitors this removal and calculated that in 2019, 22 percent of Black students with disabilities were learning outside of a regular classroom 60 percent or more of the time.

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Making positive educational moves during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put ‘the Netflix of online learning’ into action,” she said. “I What we wanted to be able to do is teach educators the psychology of stress, the biology of stress and evidenced-based strategies to manage stress, for themselves and for their kids,” he said.

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Military Recruitment Wrongs the Young

Political Science Now

Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma. In 2012, the UK government also launched an initiative to promote “military ethos” in schools to promote loyalty, resilience, courage, and teamwork. In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government.

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Pulling reservation schools back from the brink

The Hechinger Report

A school turn-around grant program — funded by the federal government and run by the Montana Office of Public Instruction — may be changing that. There’s a basketball court, dozens of tidy little houses (mostly built by the federal government), at least three churches, well-kept Pow Wow grounds, and acres and acres of sky.

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