ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

The history and reality of racism and social-class exclusion in higher education means that everyday challenges such as feeling excluded or having a hard time finding a lab partner can take on a racialized or social class-laden meaning for specific identity groups: ‘People like me don’t belong here,’” the researchers explain.

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Middle School Psychology Humanities Research 111

ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book.

Civics 91

Civics Psychology Humanities Learning Science 91

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history. Earning a college degree is a personal goal for Todd, whose wife teaches clinical psychology at the university.

Library 113

Library Psychology Primary Sources Humanities 113

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history.

History 110

History Teaching K-12 Artifacts 110

ED Surge

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s that they’re suffering from deep structural problems, and they seem not to learn from the long history of school reforms. It's not that specific reform ideas are fads, argues James Stigler, a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. But they may not be aware of the history of instruction.

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Education Psychology Public School History 131

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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World History World Religions Civics History 120

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Critical race and education scholars like Daniel G. Solórzano and Lindsay Pérez Huber contextualize these harmful lived experiences through vivid storytelling and rigorous research,⁴ illuminating their lasting physical, psychological and social consequences. American Psychological Association. ⁷ Racism and health. Alsaidi, S.,

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Education K-12 Psychology Cultures 112

ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

The devaluation and inadequate compensation for educators’ work, along with the staffing shortage, exacerbates the situation. Compassion Fatigue While symptoms of burnout were unfortunately all too familiar to educators we talked with, many said they were hearing about compassion fatigue and secondary trauma for the first time.

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Middle School Psychology Teaching High School 120

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

They were on subjects that included “Psychology of Social Status,” and “Learning from Native Sons: The Pain, Rage, and Hope of America's Most Loyal Critics.” We're going to orient the education around what we call “centers of academic inquiry,” which are more like research institutes or think tanks—thematically constituted.

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Cultures Humanities Tradition Psychology 107

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2025

The questions need to be open-ended enough to spark conversation between multiple groups, says Gannon, who also teaches history. With cuts across higher education, many of todays faculty members are overworked and feeling burned out; building student relationships can seem like additional emotional labor. Norell says.

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Controversial Topics Political Science Tutoring Psychology 136

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session Hechinger Report editor Caroline Preston launched her climate change newsletter (which you can sign up for here ) with a look at how some colleges are embedding climate-related instruction into diverse fields.

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing that the Defense Departments actions infringe upon the students First Amendment rights to obtain information, particularly about their own identities and history. Black History Month was canceled. A Queer History of the United States, a book about LGBTQ+ people in U.S

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Government Library K-12 Psychology 82

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Education called the lawsuit meritless in a statement to The 19th. The agency will continue to seek meaningful opportunities to build bridges across divisions, honor the richness of our shared history, and teach it with integrity, all while ensuring full compliance with state law, he said.

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Library Education K-12 History 58

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

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