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With the population of English language learners growing in the United States, teachers trained in how to best instruct children who are not able to communicate fluently in English are in high demand. That preparation has an unexpected benefit: It makes teachers better at working with all students.
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An article co-authored by Arpana Inman, Ph.D., professor of counseling psychology at Lehigh, reports on the Summit on Transforming the Culture of Faculty Service Engagement. Can higher education create systems that support excellent and equitable faculty service and engagement? This was the overarching question for the November... Read more »
A new report has named the 25 most LGBTQ-friendly colleges in the country, and three of them are right here in Pennsylvania. The college ratings site College Consensus released its rankings Monday. In Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania, Lehigh University, and Penn State University were named among the nation's best.
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For the first time ever, APA is releasing guidelines to help psychologists work with men and boys. APA’s new Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Boys and Men strive to recognize and address these problems in boys and men while remaining sensitive to the field’s androcentric past. Thirteen years in the making, they draw on more... Read more »
Black children, especially boys, often receive higher scores on common attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) measures than their white counterparts. Now, new findings published in the Journal of Attention Disorders reveal that Black mothers rate boys higher for the inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that define this... Read more »