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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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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. Yet at the beginning of 2014, Ruth Cady became pregnant. Earning a college degree is a personal goal for Todd, whose wife teaches clinical psychology at the university. And then wait a minute, I’m gonna be a mom?

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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

“They made me waste one year of my life,” Al Aas says, a weary smile on his face as he recounts his endless efforts to untangle red tape while living off his income working at a Berlin museum devoted to the Cold War. One asks for more information about the psychological counseling offered, which covers stress, depression and homesickness.

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What it’s like to be a transgender student in Mississippi

The Hechinger Report

“That would be public schools, a museum, lots of places wherever there’s federal tax dollars. In the 2014-2015 school year, federal funding made up almost 15 percent of Mississippi’s total revenue for school districts—$672,385,143. “It’s not the same.

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Inside the oil industry’s not-so-subtle push into K-12 education

The Hechinger Report

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. Go out there and make a difference.”.

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From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S.

The Hechinger Report

“They made me waste one year of my life,” Al Aas says, a weary smile on his face as he recounts his endless efforts to untangle red tape while living off his income working at a Berlin museum devoted to the Cold War. One asks for more information about the psychological counseling offered, which covers stress, depression and homesickness.