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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Social sciences, such as psychology, are also considered part of the liberal arts but not included in the humanities data here. It’s worrisome.”.

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Meet Digital Promise’s New President and CEO Jean-Claude Brizard

Digital Promise

The education system needs to consider a grander vision of success that includes economic stability and positive life outcomes. Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) March 2, 2021. There are many places in this country where this is happening. However, it is not happening for the masses. Very simply, we can’t afford to do that anymore.

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OPINION: Our college students are struggling emotionally. We need to understand how to help them

The Hechinger Report

Clinical interventions are not the only way — and often not the most appropriate or effective way — to support young people who may be temporarily struggling with feelings that do not meet the full psychological definition of mental illness. She has maintained a private clinical psychology and consulting practice for more than three decades.

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

ED Surge

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. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. And as of 2021 , more than half of the U.S. Despite the U.S.

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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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The school counselor pipeline is broken. Can new federal money fix it?

The Hechinger Report

He briefly considered a career in law, but settled on psychology after working in an inpatient clinic for children and adolescents after college. He’s worked in several settings since starting his program in clinical and school psychology in 2020, and found interest in them all. But it kept pulling me back.”

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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.