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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

Secondly, syndemic health conditions adversely interact through various biological or psychological mechanisms or pathways. 2014, Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women. Firstly, they involve two or more health problems that cluster together in a population. Why teach syndemics?

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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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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. Paula was in my Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. Victoria was in my U.S. History class.

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Mississippi’s homeless students struggle, with little help from schools

The Hechinger Report

A 2014 report from the American Institutes for Research and the National Center on Family Homelessness ranked Mississippi 49th out of the 50 states in identifying and serving homeless children. From 2010 to 2014, the organization found the number of homeless students in pre-K through 12th grade rose 19 percent, to just under 1.3

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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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Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

Digital Promise

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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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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