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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

It doesn’t follow from that that more choice is always better,” said Barry Schwartz, professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College and the author of “The Paradox of Choice,” about the psychological ramifications of a supermarket culture that offers 175 kinds of salad dressings and 275 breakfast cereals.

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

The Hechinger Report

Morales ended up enrolling at the University of Puerto Rico, where she finished in December with a degree in political science. Valeria Flores Morales, a sophomore psychology major at the University of Puerto Rico, was admitted to a top-ranked mainland university her family could not afford. “It Out of a population of 3.2

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Is Classroom Discussion a Dying Art?

ED Surge

Students may also worry about harming their peers, especially during discussions about emotional or controversial topics, says Graham Bullock, an associate professor of political science at Davidson College in North Carolina. They dont know how to speak up in class, he says. This has created what he calls a preparation gap.