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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

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Researching Socioeconomic Status Outside Of The Classroom Clever and Miller (2019) held a study that looked at a non-traditional learning experience with college-aged students. The purpose of their study was to explore connections between SES and learning outcomes during service-learning (Clever & Miller, 2019).

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

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These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. America’s Workforce Dilemma During the 2019-2020 academic year, U.S. postsecondary institutions conferred about 5.1

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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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. Paula Katrina, Victoria & Gariecia are all Golden Apple Scholars. This is his third year in the profession.

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The pandemic is speeding up the mass disappearance of men from college

The Hechinger Report

percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Now he plans to get a degree in sociology.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Heather Hunter, a psychology major at Wichita State University who has a part-time job in a foster-care agency, said only four high school students in foster care showed up for a workshop to help them fill out that federal form required to qualify for financial aid. We have to fight three times as hard now.”. College enrollments have fallen.

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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. Also, see a working paper on regional differences in personality published in 2019 by the geography department at the University of Marburg in Germany. Science says yes, and these maps show how. Rentfrow et al.,

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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.