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Ancient Instincts, Modern Power Struggles: How Evolution Still Shapes Human Society

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The basal regions—the parts responsible for basic survival instincts—still govern fundamental behaviors such as territorialism, reproduction, and fight-or-flight responses. Education, he suggests, must go beyond academic knowledge and address the psychological and neurological roots of human behavior. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13391

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With higher ed in crisis, the lack of financial oversight is glaring

The Hechinger Report

Government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures, but the oversight is often weak or too late. She arrived for class one day in the summer of 2014 and was met with chaos. By that summer of 2014, the federal government knew that Anamarc was struggling.

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Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

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Connected learning can happen on a local scale by fostering connections with businesses, places of worship, government agencies, and museums where students can reach an authentic audience. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345–375. 2014 Oct;42(7):1038-48. Palincsar, A.S. Brown, Collins, and Duguid (1989). – Feb.,

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OPINION: It’s time to change the way students are disciplined in school

The Hechinger Report

The numbers are stark: In 2014, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported that Black students represented 15.5 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. But when will we finally “do better?”.

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Special education’s hidden racial gap

The Hechinger Report

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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

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We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Isolating people in solitary confinement often enables other (unsanctioned but nonetheless ubiquitous) abusive practices, including many forms of physical, psychological, and sexual violence. Meetings are where people come together in time and space.

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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. 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.