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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

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The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.” For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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Military Recruitment Wrongs the Young

Political Science Now

Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma. In 2015, three-quarters of the junior recruits that were assessed had a reading age of 11 or below. In 2012, the UK government also launched an initiative to promote “military ethos” in schools to promote loyalty, resilience, courage, and teamwork.

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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. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S. Victoria was in my U.S. History class.

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Should taxpayers and schools invest in ‘growth mindset’ programs?

The Hechinger Report

When Victoria Sisk was an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University in 2015, she watched Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck deliver an online TED Talk about the power of having a “growth mindset,” a theory Dweck developed. The federal government is funding a $3.5 Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies?

The Hechinger Report

But as more schools, districts, states and even the federal government begin to embrace the idea, personalized learning is coming into conflict with an older movement in American education: standards-based accountability. At the same time, the new federal education law passed in 2015 has removed some of No Child Left Behind’s teeth.

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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. Some students are even afraid to apply for scholarships, not wanting to risk entering their personal information in databases they fear may fall into the hands of the federal government. “I It’s not just academics.

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First-gen students at elite colleges go from lonely and overwhelmed to empowered and provoking change

The Hechinger Report

Alfred “Red” Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme “Focusing on the Future.”