Tag: education

As I finish up my first year in graduate school, I am reflecting on the reasons I chose to enroll ...

In my first week of social work classes, my foundations professor asked the class what is social work?  Classmates tossed ...

Practising social work teaches good bladder control. Social workers run from one bushfire to another, juggle complex, urgent demands and ...

When I first created Social Work Helper, I was surprise at the number of emails that I started receiving. Maybe, ...

Recently, the Office of Head Start (OHS) announced its 2014 recipients of the Birth-to-Five Pilot program. As a graduate of ...

Education has long been considered one of the gateways to socioeconomic success in the United States. In today’s labor market, ...

Draft 2: 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) Opens on March 14, 2014  Feedback Closes on May 16, 2014 ...

Social Work Month is a time of reflection when those in our profession intensify our efforts to positively influence change ...

There may be good news on the horizon for social workers who appreciate the need for our profession to be ...

Higher education in the United States began as religious training for wealthy, white, Protestant men and this remained the standard ...

Are you unsure about your State's licensing laws or possibly considering a move to another state? Finding this information out ...

Many young people in college give themselves to partying and drinking alcohol, and it is very common for most college ...

Black students at the University of Michigan have come together to make demands on the administration this week. After bringing ...

Child Sexual abuse is still a taboo topic in many homes. We don’t talk about it, we don’t want to ...

Dangers of a Cross Walk Of course, the ideal situation would be for every mom to be able to personally ...

They say that Christmas 2013 is the Christmas of the tablet. The increasingly low cost of the devices, as well ...

In 2012, Dr. Jack Rothman, a prominent author and academic, issued a report on the current state of social work ...

There has been many heated discussions throughout the country regarding the disparities of zero tolerance policies implemented in our nation's ...

In recent news reports, there have been many parents outraged about notes sent home to them explaining that their child is ...

The Macro Social Work Student Network (MSWSN) is hitting the road this month.  MSWSN member and Silberman School of Social ...