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Some colleges ease up on pushing undergrads into picking majors right away

The Hechinger Report

I want to … plan events.” “I They don’t have high levels of meaningfulness in their work, which is a terrible outcome for students and their families that spend so much money and time on higher education,” said Belle Liang, a professor of counseling, developmental and educational psychology at BC who helped develop True North.

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Early Childhood and Climate Change Are Connected in More Ways Than You Might Think

ED Surge

So in cities—Detroit was one where they really experienced that a couple of years ago—extreme precipitation is causing these huge flooding events. There is a coalition of children's rights and children's advocacy groups that has been at COP, led by UNICEF. Not enough, if they are at all.

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Apply Now for 2025 APSA Dissertation Workshops | Deadline: April 27, 2025

Political Science Now

Our in-person events are held on the Wednesday prior to the APSA Annual Meeting. punctuated equilibrium, policy diffusion, advocacy theory, multiple streams theory), and policy areas such as but not limited to education, higher education, housing, immigration, and environmental/energy policy.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide. It makes us really angry to see people getting all the opportunities in the world just because they’re rich.”

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

Visual schedules of daily events can be created so that the person with autism understands what will be happening at any given time, thereby reducing unpredictability, a factor that often generates anxiety and frustration. Cultural psychology recognizes that families are diverse with respect to ethnic, racial and religious background.

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In an Era of Natural Disasters, Can Schools Double Down On Trauma Training?

ED Surge

But for some children, schools can help with recovery from the psychological strain that disasters cause. Psychological First Aid In her work helping schools to build more robust mental health services, it dawned on Villaverde that it wasnt enough to train staff to intervene when a student is in the midst of a mental health crisis.

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Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students

The Hechinger Report

The program, called the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, is run by a national nonprofit, Active Minds, which advocates for college students mental health. In the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, she encourages students to think about what their communities need and what kinds of support they and their peers might benefit from.