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Disadvantaged Students Stay In College If They're Told Everyone Struggles (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader shares an Ars Technica report: Lower-income and minority college students often have trouble sticking with higher education. But past studies have indicated they would be less likely to drop out of school if they receive appropriate counseling once they start experiencing academic problems. A new study published in PNAS demonstrates that if students receive this kind of intervention prior to college enrollment and during their first year at college, they are more likely to avoid having academic trouble in the first place. And the counseling can be done over the Internet. The counseling involves letting students know that it is common for students to struggle with the transition to college and that this transition will get easier with time. This is known as a "lay theory intervention."
Bullock's! Leaning to ask you help is part of maturing. Know when you need help is very important. Knowing others feel the same pressure makes asking for help less awkward.
If you think you did it alone you are the one with the problem.
No, we are going to write, "Stick to it. Never give up" 100 times...or tell them that 100 times.
Really, that's called encouragement and leadership. The Armed Forces do it all the time. Coaches do it for their teams.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Wow, a Renaissance man, your uncle. He managed to compare apes and blacks and ALSO wedged an absentee father stab in there. Truly admirable. If he could work in something about laziness or stupidity in there he could go on tour with it.
If he's still around, I think Trump's legal team has an opening.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
It's not that it's encouragement, or else "You're going to do just fine," would suffice. It's specifically, other people struggle, too. The disadvantaged person who would end up bailing otherwise, was probably thinking that the other people make it because it is a breeze for them; it's not a breeze for me, so I'm probably not going to make it, so I might as well quit now.
Ooh, I love a good game of Pretend!
Is this the part where we all pretend that absentee fathers aren't actually a very serious problem in the black community, and are just some stereotype that evil white racists invented?
Guess we can forget about that honest dialogue about race, huh?
It's particularly hard at the elite universities. Newly arriving students will have been accustomed to being in the top 1-2% of their peer group. They will have been used to being recognised as outstanding by their teachers. They will have been used to sailing through tests that their classmates struggle with and being only moderately challenged by meetings that their classmates find night-impossible. Depending on their school and its culture, they may have been used to being given particular perks or privileges.
And now, their peer group consists of people who have gone through exactly the same experiences. The people teaching them are going to assume "brilliance" as a default and anything short of that as a failure. Only a tiny handful of them - and generally those who are prepared to forgo almost all of the other pleasures of college life - will manage to rise back to that "academic elite" status. For the rest, they will, for probably the first time in their lives, need to get accustomed to being in the middle, or even near the bottom of their peer group. That is a major, and difficult, self-image adjustment.
I remember going through it myself. It wasn't until my third year at university that I contented myself with the fact that I wasn't going to be among the top tier of my year-group and, more to the point, that I didn't actually need to be in order to have a perfectly good career after graduation. Ironically, the very top-tier were generally those aiming to enter academia themselves, which was definitely not on my agenda.
Compared to some of my contemporaries, I adjusted fairly well. I got to see a few spectacular self-destructions.