They just don’t get it: Using digital stories to promote meaningful undergraduate reflection

They just don't get it.

In wondering the things that you should do, reading can be a new choice of you in making new things. It's always said that reading will always help you to overcome something to better. Yeah, they just don t get it is one that we always offer. Even we share again and again about the books, what's your conception? If you are one of the people love reading as a manner, you can find they just don t...

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“Just Get Me to the Church...”: Assessing Policies to Promote Marriage among Fragile Families

This article examines alternative approaches to encourage family formation among fragile families, including higher cash benefits, more liberal acceptance of welfare applications, more effective child support enforcement, and efforts to increase education and employment of low-income parents. We examine these approaches by refining and expanding previous work on a generalized logit model of the...

Using written text-based approach to promote reflection: does it work?

The article by Andrews (2014) enlightened me. The author’s vivid description of her attempts at using reflection with preclinical students was very real and illuminating. The students’ ability to follow Donald Schon’s three-step model of reflective practice was amazing. Yes, reflections need to be real – from real encounters with real people. The author identified ‘‘engagement’’ as the key elem...

Why don't they just get married? Barriers to marriage among the disadvantaged.

Kathryn Edin and Joanna Reed review recent research on social and economic barriers to marriage among the poor and discuss the efficacy of efforts by federal and state policymakers to promote marriage among poor unmarried couples, especially those with children, in light of these findings. Social barriers include marital aspirations and expectations, norms about childbearing, financial standard...