The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

Meng So, director of the undocumented-student resource center at UC Berkeley since it became the first in the nation in 2012, said he’s gotten dozens of how-to inquiries from other schools. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Deborah Santiago, vice president for policy, Excelencia in Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2011, a panel of mathematicians and math educators mapped college-prep sequences in high school math and proposed pathways that led not only to calculus but also to statistics, linear algebra and data analysis. Those interested in social sciences, communications and psychology pursue data science or statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

As the leaders of organizations that advocate on behalf of the disability and higher-education communities, we are committed to working together to continue the progress made in recent years to welcome and support college students with a wide range of disabilities. Ted Mitchell is president of the American Council on Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It’s an unlikely setting for a high-stakes gamble that could help drive dramatic change to a contentious issue: how, and how much, Americans pay to get a higher education. Now some higher education institutions are starting to lower their prices. Related: How higher education lost its shine. But that time appears to be over.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

At first glance this strength-based approach seems like the educational equivalent of kitsch, a bit fringe and hardly necessary. Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Higher Education. But what is it, exactly?

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Digital Promise

MAY 8, 2019

While some of these findings have influenced the design and development of educational materials, few have been directly translated to practitioners and students. What non-obvious advice about distributed practice do you have for educators, instructional designers, and digital learning tool developers? Sean Kang, Ph.D. , Cepeda, N.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

My school did not drive me out of education. My students did not drive me out of education,” Aion says. Instead, he says he left because the lack of support and the deep systemic flaws in education had finally become too much. Aion and Bowyer’s experiences echo trends researchers are seeing around the country.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2017

In 2012, our research group at the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California began a five-year study that did just that. The ideal comparison group would be children who participate in equally socially interactive but nonmusical training, such as sports. Impact of Music Training on Child Development.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

So it and other schools in the region have started trying to recruit Hispanics, who — like Barrera Cantu — increasingly want college educations. They got small grants in 2012 of $50,000 each from the Appalachian College Association , or ACA, to work on the issue. How well they do has implications for all of higher education.

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Jonathan Firth

JULY 19, 2016

The testing effect is a well-known psychological phenomena whereby people remember things better if they are tested on them. This phenomenon can certainly be applied to self-testing during revision; students who do this appear to get better grades (see Hartwig & Dunlosky, 2012). Image via Pixabay. McDaniel et al, 2011).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 21, 2015

While some of these findings have influenced the design and development of educational materials, few have been directly translated to practitioners and students. What non-obvious advice about distributed practice do you have for educators, instructional designers and digital learning tool developers (i.e. Sean Kang, Ph.D., Cepeda, N.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

. — Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study. When Mann created an engineering department, nearly half of all freshmen chose engineering as an elective. Photo: Stuart Miller.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2019

That’s up faster than tuition, which rose 80 percent during the same period, according to one of the very few analyses of this little-reported part of college costs, by Seton Hall University education professor Robert Kelchen. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. And I’m about to be in that pile,” said the student at Baruch.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. Karen Eoff is the Education Director for the South East regional co-op.

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Jonathan Firth

MARCH 14, 2019

Cognitive psychology has shown that in order to use your study time effectively, you should pay more attention to what you do during your study sessions. Forgetting Finally, cognitive psychology research has shown that people tend to underestimate how rapidly forgetting takes place (Yan et al, 2016). Hartwig, M. K., & Dunlosky, J.

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Jonathan Firth

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

At most, a couple of paragraphs of text (a few studies have interleaved case studies of types of psychological disorders). For more about how we can apply memory research to education, check out my co-authored book “ Psychology in the classroom: A teacher’s guide to what works ”, and my book for pupils/students, “ How to learn ”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

We almost doubled people’s learning rate,” says Vincent Clark, a professor of psychology and clinical neuroscience at the University of New Mexico who conducted this research with his colleagues. Since the 2012 publication of that research, he and other scholars have replicated the study several times with similar results.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

For his new book, Tough spent the last six years studying American higher education in 21 states and interviewing over 100 students as well as parents, professors and admissions officers, among others. percent , according to a 2019 study co-authored by Jean Twenge , a psychology professor at San Diego State University.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

The effort in New York, known as direct admission, comes after SUNY has seen an overall enrollment decline of about 21 percent since 2012. However, experts say, while direct admission has proven helpful for college access, that’s only one of the barriers students face to actually enrolling in higher education.

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Jonathan Firth

DECEMBER 11, 2019

None of these ideas are supported by mainstream psychological science; a linked study of psychology researchers found 0% endorsement in every case. Other studies have found widespread support for myths about learning, even among highly educated people. Psychology of Education Review, 42 (2), 15-22.

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Jonathan Firth

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The psychology of human memory can help us to answer this question. Forgetting is fast A classic finding in experimental psychology – dating back over one hundred years – is the forgetting curve. This error is found in the world outside of the psychology lab, too. It is not intuitive. References Dempster, F. Zechmeister, E.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This problem is of personal interest and relevance to me as someone who works in an HE education department, as my day job involves preparing and educating new trainee teachers. Professional Development in Education, 35 (1), 5-22. However, my role also puts me in the category of someone who has left the school classroom!

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 30, 2021

Take a look at this synopsis from Peter Reuell : For decades, there has been evidence that classroom techniques designed to get students to participate in the learning process produce better educational outcomes at virtually all levels. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(4), 610. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1454.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The children in America’s gifted education programs don’t look like the overall school population. But some educators, parents and students worry about what might replace screened classes and accelerated programs. They’re disproportionately white and wealthy, while Black, Latinx, Indigenous and low-income students are often left out.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2024

Martin was one of several experts and survivors of school shootings who spoke about recovering from gun violence during a recent webinar hosted by the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Supportive Schools. The organization serves as a network of survivors helping other survivors recover after an incident of mass trauma. “We

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When Trayvon Martin was killed, my students and I watched a 2012 clip of Gerardo Rivera blaming Trayvon for his death simply because he wore a hoodie. Reflecting on these moments, it is clear that the conversations around the deaths of these young Black men have had a profound impact on me, both as an educator and a human being.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

A pilot program on five campuses at the City University of New York, where the number of students who disclosed that they are on the spectrum has more than doubled since 2012, has shown promising results. Nick, a sophomore majoring in psychology, was diagnosed as a little boy with autism and attention deficit disorder.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma. Many of the young recruits from these areas have been subjected to educational disadvantage. They fund STEM education, for example, and offer career training to students. ” Some professions are more dangerous than others.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

You may have noticed that we started offering our Montessori Teacher Education Albums for sale. We can look to the success of other manualized programs (like cognitive behavioral therapy) as a model to help improve our teacher education programs. They take a course to go through this manual with an instructor. Then, they use it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

If we’re going to achieve equity in education we need to look at ways that we may provide more resources to certain areas than others.”. It had to be collaborative,” said Mandy Smoker Broaddus, who is also native and the director of Indian Education at the Montana Office of Public Instruction. “It I want to earn it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Being Tasered by a school resource officer can also traumatize a child psychologically. According to a Huffington Post analysis of Department of Education statistics, 17 percent of public schools equipped their security personnel with Tasers or stun guns in 2010, up from 13 percent in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

To Danielle — There’s so many things we can’t get in here, but knowledge and education can’t be kept out by walls.”. At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. Buck had earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Dublin the year before the ban.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

Credit: Zinn Education Project. The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” We encourage educators to engage students in similar studies of this critical issue.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Within this book, I contributed a chapter on ‘Diversity and Discrimination’ through my work with Diverse Educators. The book also covers topics such as engaging parents/carers, sex education, and media literacy. Supporting those falls under education, health care and perhaps social care. Why are these important?

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Educators and policymakers have tuned in, launching initiatives that encourage parents to spend more time talking with their babies.). Primary caregiver education is positively related to both quantity and quality measures.

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