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PROOF POINTS: Overscheduling kids’ lives causes depression and anxiety, study finds

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Now a trio of economists say they’ve been able to calculate some of these psychological costs. We’re not saying that all these activities are bad, but that the total is bad,” said Carolina Caetano, one of the study’s authors and an assistant professor of economics at the University of Georgia.

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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. Cullum took Algebra II and trigonometry with Holifield, who even helped her to become a math tutor, one of her first jobs.

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

The Hechinger Report

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.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

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It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

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ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio.

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

The Hechinger Report

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges

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Black and Latino students also often encounter more financial hardship in college and drop out for economic reasons. Addressing these graduation gaps will probably be expensive and involve more financial aid, tutoring and advising for students. This is where the Urban Institute analysis gets really interesting.