#david yeager

[raw-wild]

Eastern Cottontail and Eastern Gray Squirrel | David Yeager

[lesbiandeancas]

Supernatural Mint Condition -- A Nightmare On My Street

I’ve been wanting to make this since halloween lol. tagging a few mutuals/ppl who might be interested

@lesbianendor @werewolfmickdavies @you-cant-spell-subtext-without @seffersonjtarship @spnamvs

lmk if you would like to be added or removed <3

[swhelper]

A Trust Gap May Hinder Academic Success for Minorities

FacebookTwitter AUSTIN, Texas — Middle school students of color who lose trust in their teachers due to perceptions of mistreatment from school authorities are less likely to attend college even if they generally had good grades, according to psychology research at The...

http://www.socialworkhelper.com/2017/02/10/trust-gap-may-hinder-academic-success-minorities/?Social+Work+Helper

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[principleofplenitude]

In one experiment after another, Yeager and Walton’s methods produced remarkable results. At an elite Northeastern college, Walton, along with another Stanford researcher named Geoffrey Cohen, conducted an experiment in which first-year students read brief essays by upperclassmen recalling their own experiences as freshmen. The upperclassmen conveyed in their own words a simple message about belonging: “When I got here, I thought I was the only one who felt left out. But then I found out that everyone feels that way at first, and everyone gets over it. I got over it, too.” After reading the essays, the students in the experiment then wrote their own essays and made videos for future students, echoing the same message. The whole intervention took no more than an hour. It had no apparent effect on the white students who took part in the experiment. But it had a transformative effect on the college careers of the African-American students in the study: Compared with a control group, the experiment tripled the percentage of black students who earned G.P.A.s in the top quarter of their class, and it cut in half the black-white achievement gap in G.P.A. It even had an impact on the students’ health — the black students who received the belonging message had significantly fewer doctor visits three years after the intervention.

“Who Gets to Graduate?” from New York Times