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Alice Goffman: How we’re priming some kids for college — and others for prison

U.S. focused, and the phenomenon is a more extreme one there – but nonetheless, many of the points Alice makes apply here too, increasingly. In the UK, we imprison around 150 of our citizens for each 100,000, the vast majority … Continue reading

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Micah Ingle on the importance of context

The writer met Micah through the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32. He’s a graduate research assistant in psychology at the University of West Georgia, amongst much else. He has a powerful knack of catching an experience or a line … Continue reading

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Rosa’s Fresh Pizza – Paying it forward

This is great. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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