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."

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Re:I thought the needed a safe space

[Anonymous Coward]

Reminds me of an old racist joke my uncle used to tell. Okay, it's racist, but don't pretend there isn't any hint of truth to it either:

"What's the most endangered ape in the world?"

"A black father who stays around."

Re:When everyone succeeds, no one does

[NotDrWho]

Agreed. Most of the people who I knew in college who needed any sort of extra counseling or hand-holding were people who probably shouldn't have been in college to begin with. Of course, that was back in a time when it was okay to NOT go to college, and kids were actually honestly told that not everyone belonged in college. These days, every kid, no matter how stupid or ill-equipped for college, has to be told that he's a special snowflake who can do anything and everything.

Re:I thought the needed a safe space

[NotDrWho]

I know it's hard to believe, and for the longest time I actually thought this to have become outlawed, but there are allegedly still students in college trying to learn something rather than expecting something to be handed to them for crying "oppression".

I hope they're still the vast majority, and I hope that their well-earned degrees aren't cheapened by the special snowflakes who think the university owes them a degree because victim.

Re:I thought the needed a safe space

[PopeRatzo]

SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.

The same people who are always complaining about "SJWs" are the ones who are currently shitting themselves over the fact that Watch Dogs 2 has a black protagonist. And by "shitting themselves", I mean actually crapping their pants in fury.

http://www.thejimquisition.com...