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A one-hour class could cut the college dropout rate
Reuters: (Reuters) First generation college students get lower grades and are more likely to drop out – an “achievement gap” that threatens efforts to boost the number of college graduates. Recent research, however, suggests a
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offers advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of research or topic in psychological science that has been
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Taking a Transdiagnostic Approach to Understanding Self-Injury
Millions of people are affected by self-injury, especially adolescents and young adults. Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been the focus of numerous studies and, yet, there is still a lot to learn about its causes and
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An Hour Makes a Difference
Inside Higher Ed: For years, studies have found that first-generation college students — those who do not have a parent with a college degree — lag other students on a range of education achievement factors.
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Can Shame Predict Whether a Released Felon Will Reoffend?
Pacific Standard: The linguistic distinction between guilt and shame is often blurred. Some of the definitions that Merriam-Webster offers are nearly identical. Guilt is “a bad feeling caused by knowing or thinking that you have done
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Talking About Social Class Boosts Grades of First-Generation College Students
A novel one-hour intervention focused on discussions of social class can significantly narrow the achievement gap between first-generation college students and students who have a least one parent with a college degree, researchers find. The
