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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.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. In past years, these programs met societal and student needs through instruction on culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed education, conscious leadership and many other progressive approaches.

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Switching majors is adding time and tuition to the already high cost of college

The Hechinger Report

Eventually she declared a major in psychology and a minor in art. There’s no reliable source of information about how many students arrive at college without a major; one national survey of freshmen found that about 9 percent were undecided. years from all other kinds of institutions, the advocacy group Complete College America says.

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Using vocational education to teach academic courses

The Hechinger Report

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Photo: Amadou Diallo, for The Hechinger Report. REDMOND, Wash. —

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Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college

The Hechinger Report

Even as a higher education becomes among the biggest investments Americans make, the information available about what students and their families are getting for their money remains stubbornly sparse and often inaccurate and even misleading. Or, for that matter, how much that degree will ultimately cost or the likelihood you’ll ever earn one.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

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Fiske had been previously employed by an independent school in California, while in a doctoral program for education psychology, researching how people learn, she says. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa. Moreover, political connections at a particular institution aren’t always obvious, she says.

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Rethinking campus mental health to better serve LGBTQ+ students and others

The Hechinger Report

Keygan Miller, advocacy manager at The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, said that a therapist doesn’t have to identify as queer or trans to help a student who does. Reyna Smith, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky.

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