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The Emotional Costs of Parents’ Conditional Regard: A Self-Determination Theory Analysis

Assor et. al.

2004

Demonstrates that parents who show conditional love toward their children (e.g. withdrawing and giving based on their behavior) saw strong short-term results, but incredibly negative long-term results toward self-directed regulation and behavior.

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Announcing Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025: Quest for Connection (July 21-23, 2025). In 2025, we’re responding to the need for community and solidarity in uncertain times by turning Conference to Restore Humanity into a model for humanizing critical discourse and dialogue: bringing together students and teachers, researchers and doers, thinkers and visionaries to explore complex topics in education and illuminate a path forward together.

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Announcing Conference to Restore Humanity! 2024: Vision Into Reality.

Join us on July 22nd-25th for a one-of-its-kind, designed for virtual progressive education conference.

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"It's Like a Baby Jail!" Power & Early Childhood Education w/ Dr. Chloë Keegan

Our latest podcast with Dr. Chloë Keegan - Dr. Keegan is an early childhood expert with over a decade of experience as an educator, researcher, and policy advocate. Her work focuses on children's rights and power, play and participation, and influencing practice and policy in early education.

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Student Empathy Interview Work Featured at MIT

HRP spent the day at the MIT Media Lab with Student Change Makers from Ohio, New Jersey, and Maine for Cortico’s inaugural Youth Listening Lab! Students from each school shared their student voice data and proposed solutions, then worked together to identify common themes across their experiences. Using these insights, they built collective models to share these stories and to highlight the power of student voice.

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Third Coast Learning Collaborative Featured by What School Could Be

Check out how our ongoing grant project in West Michigan was featured!

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And the more we reinforce this narrative of learning loss, it invalidates everything you just said. Right? Everything that I know that I've learned doesn't matter. Because we're still looking at this year, people didn't measure up. We didn't learn the things we're supposed to learn so now you're behind. Right. So now you're behind, learning loss. And it's really invalidating.

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