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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

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Palardy (2013) investigated high school-aged students to examine socioeconomic segregation’s impact on student attainment outcomes. Neighborhood segregation and district boundaries have contributed to this (Palardy, 2013). High school transcripts were collected for additional data (Palardy, 2013). link] Corriveau, K.

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Psychological technologies

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

Psychoanalysis Some of the most important “technologies” of psychology were developed by Sigmund Freud. Behaviourism While Freudian psychoanalysis was hugely influential in the 20 th century another completely different strand of psychological investigation was developed almost concurrently, this is “behaviourism”. and Horwitz, A.V.

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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

The effect of learning spaces on various behaviors—territoriality, crowding, situational and personal space—has been the focus of some sociological and environment behavioral research. The consensus of this research is that the space itself has physical, social, and psychological effects. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1362–1370.

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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

They were concerned about losing federal money,” said Marisol Perez Gonzalez, a senior sociology major who along with other students took part in meetings with administrators about these issues, and who herself has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status after being brought by her family from Mexico to Salt Lake City when she was 10.

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Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality?

The Hechinger Report

Among public universities whose student populations are at least 5 percent black and one-quarter low-income, Rutgers-Newark had the second- highest black male graduation rate in the nation in 2013 and the fifth-highest black graduation rate overall. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it. That’s not what we think.”.

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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

psychology class. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Instead, in August 2013, she transferred to New Orleans’s Delgado Community College. while she puzzled over psychology homework in the one hour she had to spare.

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From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

The Hechinger Report

At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. Buck had earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Dublin the year before the ban. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology a few months after Metz came home. Metz told Buck she was scared of the test.

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