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

The Hechinger Report

“These humanities fields are down to unprecedented levels,” said Rob Townsend, director of humanities, arts and culture programs at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Pure sciences like physics and chemistry are included in the liberal arts and sciences but not the humanities. It’s worrisome.”.

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

Overall, students didn’t benefit academically, psychologically or socially from the practice. Dalgaard, a senior researcher at VIVE—The Danish Centre for Social Science Research, initially found over 2,000 studies on special education inclusion. Some children thrived while others did very badly in regular classrooms.

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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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PROOF POINTS: A spate of recent studies on the “Google effect” adds to evidence that the internet is making us dumber

The Hechinger Report

In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences. That same year, the veracity of the Google effect was debated at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, where scholars described repeated failures.

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Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Spring Mi, UC Berkeley

Political Science Now

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies and Middle East Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018 with a high academic distinction, and received her Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Chicago in 2021, where she received the Social Sciences Scholarship of full tuition.