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A Third of Your Freshmen Disappear. How Can You Keep Them?
When the first-year retention rate at Southern Utah University fell five percentage points over five years, college administrators there knew they had a problem. They just weren’t sure what to do about it. "They were at a loss, and frankly, we were, too," recalls Jared N. Tippets, who was hired three years ago to reverse the trend. The institution had tried several of the "high impact" practices that are supposed to help with retention — learning communities, common reading programs — but students kept leaving. By 2015, only 64 percent of freshmen were returning for their sophomore year.
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The Effects of Parental Separation on Children
Many medical associations and thousands of mental-health professionals have criticized the Trump administration’s policy of dividing immigrant families at the southern border, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association. In many cases, professionals cite the negative health effects parental separation has on children.
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The Perils Of Pushing Kids Too Hard, And How Parents Can Learn To Back Off
On New Year's Eve, back in 2012, Savannah Eason retreated into her bedroom and picked up a pair of scissors. "I was holding them up to my palm as if to cut myself," she says. "Clearly what was happening was I needed someone to do something." Her dad managed to wrestle the scissors from her hands, but that night it had become clear she needed help. "It was really scary," she recalls. "I was sobbing the whole time." Savannah was in high school at the time. She says the pressure she felt to succeed — to aim high — had left her anxious and depressed.
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QI : sommes-nous vraiment en train de devenir moins intelligents? (Are we really becoming less intelligent?)
Vous êtes moins intelligents que vos parents et vos enfants le seront encore moins que vous. C’est en substance l’idée répandue par une minorité de scientifiques depuis quelques années. Selon eux, le QI des populations occidentales ne cesserait de diminuer ces dernières décennies dans les pays développés. Et une nouvelle étude publiée le 11 juin dans la revue américaine PNAS (Compte rendus de l’académie américaine des sciences) abonde une nouvelle fois dans ce sens, bien que les résultats ne soient pas généralisables. Selon les auteurs de cette étude, deux économistes scandinaves, le QI des hommes norvégiens nés entre 1962 et 1991 baisse d’année en année.
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Is our culture decent enough to keep tipping?
I have a rude habit that I can’t shake whenever I’m at a restaurant with someone who is picking up the check or splitting the bill with me. I always, always sneak back to the table and check to see what they tipped. Yes, it is totally a moral litmus test on several levels. The size of a gratuity is insight into character or life experience. Or math skills. And it’s the big issue on the D.C. ballot Tuesday, one that some say threatens the American culture of tipping and, ultimately, our restaurant industry. The practice of tipping goes back to 18th-century English pub culture, when a coin would be given “To Insure Promptness” — T.I.P.
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In Sports, a Must-Win Situation Usually Leads to a Loss
On May 31st, Mauricio Macri, the President of Argentina, met with the members of the nation’s soccer team as they departed for training before the World Cup, which opens, in Russia, on Thursday. “Whatever we Argentinians achieve, we will be happy,” Macri told the squad, in televised remarks. “And it is not true that if one does not become a champion, one is a failure; that is a madness that does not exist anywhere in the world.” This, coming from the leader of a soccer-mad nation—the home of Lionel Messi, no less—was a shocking concession: Our team might not win the World Cup. And if they don’t, we’ll love them anyway.
