The Daily Populous

When teachers encounter disruptive or noncompliant students in the classroom, they typically respond by focusing on the negative behavior.

However, new research from the University of Missouri found that offering students more positive encouragement not only reduces disruptive classroom behavior, but can improve students’ academic and social outcomes.

“Instead, we need to be setting clear expectations of what behaviors we do want to be seeing.”. »

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for an independent investigation into the sexual harassment claims made against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

"Lindsey Boylan and Charlotte Bennett’s detailed accounts of sexual harassment by Gov. Cuomo are extremely serious and painful to read," she wrote.

"There must be an independent investigation – not one led by an individual selected by the Governor, but by the office of the Attorney General.". »

Failing to do one or the other means the $15 minimum wage increase dies.

It has been written and said that the gambit failed because the Senate parliamentarian ruled that including the minimum wage increase would violate reconciliation rules.

"It’s been 12 years since we’ve raised the minimum wage and 30 since we’ve raised the federal tipped wage," added Jayapal. »

These female villains are introduced in two dimensions—quite literally, in many cases.

Middle and upper-class white women became revered for the domestic labor to which they had been confined: social regulation enshrined as near-religion.

Women were the center of the family, the light of the home, and the angel of the house. »