The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
However, psychology research shows that uncertainty itself is often the real driver behind rising anxiety. Psychology research shows that uncertainty itself is often the real driver behind rising anxiety. It’s not so much the actual events that cause us to feel panic, but the “what ifs” that swirl around them.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
Despite continued resistance by student activists, universities across the nation too often seem unable or unwilling to doggedly police acts of psychological or physical violence against minority students. Removing racist imagery and changing the names of buildings are welcome gestures, but they do little to even the balance.
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Cult of Pedagogy
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
” Facilities Access When it comes to spaces like restrooms and locker rooms, Edwards says “Every major medical and psychological association would recommend that trans kids and gender-expansive kids access the facilities that match their gender identity.”
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 28, 2021
In the quick expansion of SEL during Covid-19, not all voices were heard at the table to create the curriculum, said Zoe Higheagle Strong, assistant professor of educational psychology at Washington State University. When a student is going through trauma and they don’t feel you creating a safe space, you open up a wound.”
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 18, 2016
For more than a year, social justice activists have been attacking one of education’s latest buzzwords: grit. They’ve been arguing that it’s wrong, and possibly racist, to blame low-income black and Hispanic students for not having enough of it. on April 9, the academic daggers were out and the sparks were flying.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 11, 2017
. — Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study. The social justice angle he pushed — asking “If students of privilege get more privilege, how does that lead to equity?” — won over some department heads.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers. We could play Fantasy Geography.
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