Recently, the Office of Head Start (OHS) announced its 2014 recipients of the Birth-to-Five Pilot program. As a graduate of head start, head start training curriculum...
Education has long been considered one of the gateways to socioeconomic success in the United States. In today’s labor market, however, education is more essential to...
Draft 2: 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) Opens on March 14, 2014 Feedback Closes on May 16, 2014 On behalf of CSWE’s Commission on Educational...
Social Work Month is a time of reflection when those in our profession intensify our efforts to positively influence change and policy shifts on the macro,...
There may be good news on the horizon for social workers who appreciate the need for our profession to be more involved with influencing institutions and...
Higher education in the United States began as religious training for wealthy, white, Protestant men and this remained the standard for a couple centuries. Slowly we...
Are you unsure about your State’s licensing laws or possibly considering a move to another state? Finding this information out on your own can be a...
Many young people in college give themselves to partying and drinking alcohol, and it is very common for most college students to drink heavily on weekends....
Black students at the University of Michigan have come together to make demands on the administration this week. After bringing national attention to the injustices faced...
Child Sexual abuse is still a taboo topic in many homes. We don’t talk about it, we don’t want to hear about it and we just...
Of course, the ideal situation would be for every mom to be able to personally drive their child to school, so all worries of what dangers...
They say that Christmas 2013 is the Christmas of the tablet. The increasingly low cost of the devices, as well as the bang for buck they...
In 2012, Dr. Jack Rothman, a prominent author and academic, issued a report on the current state of social work macro practice. The study identified barriers...
There has been many heated discussions throughout the country regarding the disparities of zero tolerance policies implemented in our nation’s public schools. Last week, the American...
In recent news reports, there have been many parents outraged about notes sent home to them explaining that their child is considered to be obese. “Fat letters” are...
The Macro Social Work Student Network (MSWSN) is hitting the road this month. MSWSN member and Silberman School of Social Work Student Andrew Calderaro will be...
You love your children, and want to see them grow and learn. However, when your child has special needs or learning disabilities, it can seem like...
Women in Muslim countries often do not have the same rights and privileges as women in the West such as the right of education or the...
Those of us in the social work profession have spent at least 4 years at university studying the intricacies of human behaviours, and thousands of hours...
If you are not familiar with who Wendy Davis is, you should be! Wendy Davis was a single mom on government assistance who worked her way...