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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

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and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. Around the country, gifted and talented programs have come under fire for exacerbating school systems’ already stark racial and economic segregation.

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OPINION: Time to stop weeding out first- and second-year STEM students and ending careers before they begin

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They are also diverse in their ethnicity, gender and economic status. These structures exist in first-year writing seminars at many colleges, where students get dedicated tutoring and institutional resources to help them succeed.

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The latest group to get special attention from college admissions offices: men

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Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Among the groups trying to change such childhood messages is an American Psychological Association task force aimed at getting teachers and others to better understand boys and their educational needs. “[R]igid The community college is trying to increase its enrollment of men. Just 7 percent of U.S.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

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At the first section meeting in early September, 16 students — heritage speakers and language learners — chattered in Chinese and English as they crowded into a seminar room. But Guo, a double major in psychology and the College of East Asian Studies, wanted to tackle Chinese philosophy in Chinese.

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We know how to help young kids cope with the trauma of the last year — but will we do it?

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Because I was putting my son’s well-being behind the economic well-being of the family.”. Supalla also treated her staff to lunches and hosted seminars on mental health and financial planning to address their personal concerns. “If We need psychological support, we need help with our kids. Everybody is traumatized.”.