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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change 

The Hechinger Report

Psychology students studying behavior change helped the campus dining hall adopt a practice of offering half, full and double portions to cut down on food waste. Physics students designed solar thermal boxes to boost renewable biogas production on an organic farm owned by the college. You can notice a water bottle floating in a river.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer from water scarcity for at least a month each year.

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Military Recruitment Wrongs the Young

Political Science Now

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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PROOF POINTS: Study finds guaranteed free tuition lures low-income students

The Hechinger Report

Susan Dynarski, an economist who helped design and conduct the experiment at the University of Michigan and is now a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, said the study demonstrates the psychological power of “certainty.” A draft was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March 2022.

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Kids with obesity do worse in school. One reason may be teacher bias 

The Hechinger Report

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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Piqued: The case for curiosity

The Hechinger Report

In her first semester of college, she asked her psychology professor if she could assist in the professor’s research. In future work, Shah hopes to identify parenting styles that help explain why some students are so driven to learn, which might lead to interventions benefiting economically disadvantaged children.