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Is ‘Crisis’ Thinking About Youth Mental Health Doing More Harm Than Good?

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One of the biggest challenges to making communities that are overall better for youth mental health is the very way the issue is talked about, says Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute and a psychological anthropologist. What Motivates the Adolescent Brain?

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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. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. According to historian Benjamin T.

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New Effort Hopes to Make ‘Weed-Out’ Courses More Equitable

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The project, funded from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at Educause, prioritizes 20 key gateway courses, including introductory classes in biology, chemistry, English, economics and psychology, as well as math classes like algebra and calculus, and U.S. history surveys.

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How To Make Someone Not Hate Math

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I wasn’t particularly mathy before then, but after that, math and I had a no-contact policy that would only reverse late in my college career when I became interested in economics and statistics. But in checking my memory against others as part of this reporting process, another narrative emerged. So how does someone become a non-math person?

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With Stressed-Out Students in Challenging Times, Faculty Must Embrace Caring Practices

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Our faculty have a new and deeper obligation now, not only to open student minds to intellectual discoveries, but to turn the classroom into a caring refuge from cultural and economic abuse. Active learning is not merely a collection of pedagogical tricks, but it has a deeper and more meaningful implication for higher education.

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Training Today’s Youth to Become Tomorrow's Mental Health Care Providers

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The discrepancy stems from systemic factors like economic inequality, as well as cultural ones. A recent national survey conducted by the American Psychological Association found that more than 85 percent of psychologists are white. Families may believe that therapy is ‘a white people thing,’” Cherestal says.

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Competition Can Motivate, Encourage and Inspire Students. But It Can Also Harm Them.

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The American Psychological Association (APA) defines competition as “any performance situation structured in such a way that success depends on performing better than others.” That was too hard to bear. Every quarter, I strived to get one of those trophies just to hear my family cheer.