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AUGUST 11, 2017

. — Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study. North Star added AP Biology in 2011, AP Calculus BC in 2013, AP Computer Science in 2014, AP Chemistry in 2015, and AP Physics last year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Black and Latino students also often encounter more financial hardship in college and drop out for economic reasons. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. Students with weaker academic preparation might be more likely to fail classes and drop out of college. Related: Federal data shows 3.9

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015. But on many campuses, learning a second language is treated simply as a box to check.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

In 2015, Rutgers-Newark’s six-year graduation rate was 64 percent for black students and 63 percent for white students, according to administrators, compared with 40 percent and 61 percent respectively at public institutions nationally. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it. Sam Goodman, Anthony Austin, Jr.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Christina Easton, The University of Warwick, “Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment.” Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

Of the 405 students at BDEA, who range in age from 16 to 23, almost all are economically disadvantaged. He described alternative schools as being leaders in “marrying the psychological with the educational.”. Related: Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs? They have to have it,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Their parents’ lack of familiarity with higher education in the United States, combined with language and economic barriers, make it challenging for Hispanic students to pursue degrees, she said. Related: In one country, immigration is seen not as a burden, but as an economic gain. Photo: Jesse Pratt. We got our hope back.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Fannie Lou Hamer is a small public high school that utilizes several progressive educational philosophies; the school’s innovations have led to it being named a “Gold” School of Opportunity by the National Education Policy Center in 2015 and a “model school” by the Center for Reform of School Systems in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The net of medical and psychological services that support children outside of school is riddled with holes, which makes services within the school system all the more important. The students are predominantly low-income; in the last school year, 81 percent were considered economically disadvantaged, according to state data. “As

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2017

It reimagines what requirements are needed to have a chance at a life of economic stability, as a member of the middle class, for individuals and their families. We saw this in Tennessee, which has seen a tremendous uptick in college enrollment after implementing its tuition-free college program, Tennessee Promise , in 2015.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Additionally, a 2015 study found that focusing on student social and emotional well-being resulted in long-term economic gains due to improvements in health, education, and employment. Research in neuroscience and psychology explains these lasting benefits. And you may be the only positive thing they can rely on.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! This year there may be as few as 19.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Some advocates argue that childhood obesity, which has steadily risen over the last 40 years, should be seen as an “ academic risk factor ” because of its lasting effects on educational and economic mobility. She plans to study psychology. “I But weight is often left off the radar, it’s often not getting addressed.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Related: In one country, immigration is seen not as a burden, but as an economic gain. 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. university or college and can cover all their costs.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Yet, according to the Babson Survey Research Group , while an impressive 6 million students took at least one online course in fall 2015, the most recent period for which the figure is available, almost half were served by only about 5 percent of colleges and universities. Other institutions have seen little growth in this area. Vicki Baker.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Dylan Roof (C), the suspect in the mass shooting that left nine dead in a Charleston church, appears in court accompanied by assistant defensive attorney William Maguire July 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. According to a 2015 analysis in The New York Times , 1.5 Wire photo: Grace Beahm-Pool/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Related: In one country, immigration is seen not as a burden, but as an economic gain. 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. university or college and can cover all their costs.

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