ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

It turns out, one of the world’s most-cited educational researchers, Richard Mayer , is working on a series of studies looking at what kind of computer-generated voices and images are most engaging to learners and lead to the best outcomes. Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So on the first day of my educational psychology class, I say … my job isn't to make sure that you're never uncomfortable. I didn't know about the history of Hawaii and what we had done to have it become part of the United States. The cool thing right now is our students are coming with a totally different K-12 education.

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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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