Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

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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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Current class topics include Sociological Theory, Sociology of Human Sexuality, Social Psychology and Sociology Through Film. Professor Lindbloom works collaboratively with the National Indigenous Residential Museum of Canada to support its education efforts and museum exhibit expansion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

On a recent visit with developers and museum designers, she stood on the building’s gutted first floor and described her plans for the center. But she deliberately avoids calling the space a museum, because she doesn’t want visitors to be rooted in the past. It’s now been closed for nearly 15 years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Yannier’s invention, by contrast, is a giant piece of furniture intended for schools and museums. Ken Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University professor of human-computer interaction and psychology. The machine looks more like a museum installation than classroom equipment. Good job,” the computer table says. “I

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I love history, English, and humanities classes, some favorites being AP English Language and Composition, AP Psychology, AP US History, and Creative Writing. I feel privileged to have grown up so close to Washington, DC, and I love visiting the numerous museums, galleries, and other cultural and historical sites.

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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. Earning a college degree is a personal goal for Todd, whose wife teaches clinical psychology at the university. On Todd’s free day, he headed to the Louvre, arriving early enough to enter as soon as the museum opened. “I

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Parker’s uncle by marriage was Mark Raymond Harrington, director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California. He hired Parker as a secretary and cook for the museum’s excavations of Pueblo Indian sites. Addressing the psychological and spiritual aspects of healing was important as well.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

A lot of these kids would make a mistake, and they would just melt down or crumple up all their work or hit another kid,” said Marla Brassard, a professor of psychology and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, who studied Haven in its first years as part of her research on childhood trauma. (

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Science of Happiness: This book explores scientific insights into happiness and well-being, backed by research in positive psychology. All in the Mind Lynn Malcolm hosts this excellent (and award-winning) show that is entirely centered on stories about the human brain, touching on fields like psychology, neurology, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

“They made me waste one year of my life,” Al Aas says, a weary smile on his face as he recounts his endless efforts to untangle red tape while living off his income working at a Berlin museum devoted to the Cold War. One asks for more information about the psychological counseling offered, which covers stress, depression and homesickness.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I applied and won, and that fall, the organization flew me to see the museum and meet the publisher of USA Today. She wanted to major in psychology and minor in criminal law, she told me. Somehow, I found out about a contest for student journalists sponsored by the Freedom Forum, a nonprofit that ran the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

“That would be public schools, a museum, lots of places wherever there’s federal tax dollars. ” The American Psychological Association says there’s a difference between dysphoria and being transgender. If that institution discriminates on the basis of gender, it puts itself in jeopardy of losing federal funds.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

In January, EveryLibrary, a group that tracks legislation that puts school and college librarians, higher ed faculty and museum professionals at risk of criminal prosecution, identified 44 bills in 14 states as “ legislation of concern ,” for the 2024 session. This climate has teachers and librarians feeling fearful, confused and stressed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2025

In these studies, researchers typically observed parents and children interacting in a university lab, a school, a museum or at home and kept track of how often parents mentioned numbers or shapes. For example, Hand me three potato chips.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2024

Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks too. But this is a just-so story without sufficient evidentiary support, despite its pervasiveness in disciplines like evolutionary psychology.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

So a parent might have a conversation with a three-year-old about their recent trip to the children’s museum, and they might reminisce about how much fun they had putting balls through a chute and trying to line them up at the right angle so that it worked properly. Can you give us an example of the “rare” and the “abstract”?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In Chicago, Stagg School of Excellence — one of my organization’s partners — is home to the Black Chicago Museum on the first floor of its building, which highlights Blacks’ migration to Chicago and contributions to our city. The museum is open to the community, but also integrated into the curriculum of the school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. You’re exploiting that trusted relationship between the student and the teacher,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2017

So when we have a great extracurricular activity, like a visit to a museum, these kids just can’t go because they would miss a shift.”. At the same time, while nonwhite students may regularly experience more stress than their white peers, they are often less likely to seek psychological help.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

“They made me waste one year of my life,” Al Aas says, a weary smile on his face as he recounts his endless efforts to untangle red tape while living off his income working at a Berlin museum devoted to the Cold War. One asks for more information about the psychological counseling offered, which covers stress, depression and homesickness.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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