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JUNE 3, 2020

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio.

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MARCH 11, 2019

In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014. As researchers who study how stereotypes and other psychological factors can dissuade girls from pursuing careers in math and science, we believe that parents and educators can help turn things around and close the gender gaps in STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

The numbers are stark: In 2014, the U.S. The disparities begin in preschool ; they can have a negative effect on students mentally, psychologically and even physically, and can lead to poor academic performance. My charge was a simple method of improving the culture and climate through parent awareness and support.

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JUNE 26, 2017

According to a 2014 report by the Perceptions Institute , a think tank that explores unconscious bias, “Few teachers are likely to admit to others (or even to know themselves) that they hold students to different standards or have varying expectations based on race or ethnicity.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. where there is just one school district, 77 percent of white students with special needs who exited during the 2014-15 school year left with a diploma, while just 57 percent of their black and Latino peers did.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

psychology class. In 2014, Pierre enlisted in the Air Force, intending to use his salary and the G.I. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. Williams loved Delgado so much that she kept going even after she had to take a second job in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

For instance, on the opposite coast, California certified fewer bilingual teachers in 2014-15 than any other year in the past decade. In 2014, employed paraprofessionals’ median earnings were merely $18,000 per year, or just above 150 percent of the federal poverty line for a single adult. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Knowing his culture and practicing his religion help ground him, Helgeson said. As a teacher at Hays-Lodge Pole High School on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, Helgeson works hard to pass on that cultural knowledge. The unemployment rate in Hays in 2014 was 25 percent. I needed help.”. Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Being Tasered by a school resource officer can also traumatize a child psychologically. In 1997 only 10 percent of public schools had police officers; in 2014, 30 percent did. There is a dearth of research on the overall impact of police on school crime and culture, he added. It’s a natural instinct to want to protect children.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2017

students in grades 6 through 12 and 20 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 experienced bullying, according to national survey data from 2014. When your school becomes a source of pain, there are few places to find psychological relief. If a school’s culture reflects the outside world, children will feel there is no escape.

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MAY 2, 2024

Despite the recent uptick, Jenkins points out that community college enrollment in Massachusetts is actually down nearly 40 percent since 2014. Kirk: Going from Uganda to Nashville, was there a bit of a culture shock? Jon: Davis Jenkins studies community colleges at Columbia University. It’s also down nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jenifer Fox — who wrote the book “Your Child’s Strengths” and in 2014 helped create The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas, which uses the strengths approach — went further, calling it “the magic bullet.”. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup.

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In some circles, the use of capitalization for “Deaf” and “Disabled” indicates a cultural identity rather than a medical diagnosis. Many of them had been severely traumatized during Israel’s so-called Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014. At the time, they did not know the whereabouts of the children and staff. (

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

percent of worldwide humanitarian aid goes to education of any kind, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization , or UNESCO. universities and colleges during the 2014-2015 academic year, the most recent period for which figures are available, only 792 were Syrian, the IIE reports.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars. Ketron moved here from Cincinnati in 2014 with her then-husband, seeking to live on a farm within driving distance of large cities. courses in middle school and high school, he said.

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Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. This is fundamental to the aims of PSHE.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

The country as a whole passed that benchmark in 2014.) No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Now a senior, Cristian is enrolled in four AP classes (Psychology, Biology, Computer Science, and Spanish) and two dual-credit classes with the local college (physics and calculus).

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MAY 25, 2016

says Title IX is usually associated with sex-based equity in athletics—having girls’ basketball and track teams, for instance, in the male-dominated culture of sports. In the 2014-2015 school year, federal funding made up almost 15 percent of Mississippi’s total revenue for school districts—$672,385,143.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

percent of worldwide humanitarian aid goes to education of any kind, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization , or UNESCO. universities and colleges during the 2014-2015 academic year, the most recent period for which figures are available, only 792 were Syrian, the IIE reports.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. You’re exploiting that trusted relationship between the student and the teacher,” he said.

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