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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

The report indicates clear evidence that “well-designed primary schools boost children’s academic performance in reading, writing, and math” (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett, 2015, p. The consensus of this research is that the space itself has physical, social, and psychological effects. Cited Sources Barrett, P., &

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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 was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. Nick Davis: currently a World Studies, AP Psychology and Black Studies teacher at Von Steuben High School in Chicago.

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Geopsychology: Your personality depends on where you live

Strange Maps

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. PLOS ONE , 2015) Strange Maps #1117 For more on geopsychology, see Tobias Ebert et al., There is also a geographic component to their distribution, research suggests. Science says yes, and these maps show how.

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At Georgia State, black students find comfort and academic success

The Hechinger Report

When I went to meet with him, he helped me with studying, with finding more resources and with stress management,” said Shields, 23, a psychology major. From 2003 to 2015, according to GSU , its graduation rate (finishing a bachelor’s degree within six years of starting) for African-American students rose from 29 to 57 percent.

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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

They were concerned about losing federal money,” said Marisol Perez Gonzalez, a senior sociology major who along with other students took part in meetings with administrators about these issues, and who herself has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status after being brought by her family from Mexico to Salt Lake City when she was 10.

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Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality?

The Hechinger Report

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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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

psychology class. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. Strangers introduced themselves when she sat in the courtyard.