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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two.

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At Georgia State, black students find comfort and academic success

The Hechinger Report

When I went to meet with him, he helped me with studying, with finding more resources and with stress management,” said Shields, 23, a psychology major. By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

Isolating people in solitary confinement often enables other (unsanctioned but nonetheless ubiquitous) abusive practices, including many forms of physical, psychological, and sexual violence. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations. prisons and jails.

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When school rewards backfire

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. There’s also a psychological critique of rewards, with many arguing that they undermine a child’s ability to develop his or her internal motivation to do the right thing. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance.

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Can a nonprofit turn around a school in a juvenile detention facility?

The Hechinger Report

In late 2014, the federal departments of justice and education released a joint letter urging school officials to improve education in juvenile detention facilities. The two parties negotiated a settlement and consent decree, which lasted from 2010 to 2014, and allowed the city and school board to agree to changes without admission of guilt.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

State Board of Education spokesman Kevin Calbert said the 10 percent number was based on the improvement the state needed to make to meet federal No Child Left Behind standards, which required 100 percent proficiency by the year 2014. Just because of the psychology of targets.”

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Parents are quitting jobs, passing on raises — to qualify for child care

The Hechinger Report

Many parents are stuck, said Jennifer Greppi, parent policy director at Parent Voices California, an advocacy organization. After receiving the dispiriting news, Funes, who has a bachelors degree in psychology, left her job. As soon as they make any little bit more, they lose benefits. This problem could soon become even worse.

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