Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2016

Keeping students motivated is a challenge for educators and parents alike. Developed by University of Texas-Austin psychology professor David Yeager, purpose for learning teaches students to learn with the goal of making a broader, positive impact on the world. Journal of Educational Controversy, 10(1), 2. Citations. Yeager, D.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345–375. Educational Researcher, Vol.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 11, 2019

In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014. If girls have the smarts needed for success in STEM , then what factors explain why they don’t pursue education and careers in these fields? Such gaps, however, are not the result of differences in intellectual ability.

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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. Jenifer Fox — who wrote the book “Your Child’s Strengths” and in 2014 helped create The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas, which uses the strengths approach — went further, calling it “the magic bullet.”.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

But it wasn’t that wall of degrees that most strongly informed her passion for teaching: It was the support she received growing up as a Black child taught by Black educators in her Mississippi hometown, and at her alma mater, a historically Black college. Cassandra Herring, CEO of Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

The numbers are stark: In 2014, the U.S. The 2017 Brown Center Report on American Education: Race and school suspensions found that Black students lose up to four times more days of instruction to suspensions than their white peers. As educators, I challenge you to start doing better. Because we should already know better.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

When I went to meet with him, he helped me with studying, with finding more resources and with stress management,” said Shields, 23, a psychology major. By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. Read more about higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In 2015, a mere 25 percent of high school seniors were proficient in the subject, according to the National Center for Education Statistics , which produces the most reliable data on academic competency. At the time, The New York City Department of Education was developing a research division focused solely on student motivation.

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Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

Finding and interpreting educational research can be a challenge for teachers. The ultimate aim is to promote a more evidence-informed approach to educational decision making and practice. Firstly, evidence-based education is the idea that research of various kinds should be used to inform decisions about teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

For instance, on the opposite coast, California certified fewer bilingual teachers in 2014-15 than any other year in the past decade. In 2014, employed paraprofessionals’ median earnings were merely $18,000 per year, or just above 150 percent of the federal poverty line for a single adult. And over half of the states in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The odds he faced, as a black boy in special education, were actually stacked against him. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. a research analyst for higher education at Ed Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. By 2008, education reformers had opened charters in Texas and New York with similar “college for all” promises. psychology class. bill to pay for his education.

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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. North Star added AP Biology in 2011, AP Calculus BC in 2013, AP Computer Science in 2014, AP Chemistry in 2015, and AP Physics last year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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MARCH 25, 2019

In 2014, Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, noticed how schools across the country were handing out perfect attendance certificates as a way to motivate students to show up. In 2014, Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. Higher Education. Inevitably, something gets missed. Some differing views. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones, senior vice provost for undergraduate studies at Temple University, and Paul Tough, author of the upcoming book, “Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,” presented some promising solutions this month during a session at the Education Writers Association’s National Seminar at Boston University.

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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. Benefits that were first established in psychology labs have been shown to apply to real world learning situations such as a middle school science classroom (e.g. Image via Pixabay. McDaniel et al, 2011).

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Jonathan Firth

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s really important to do this from memory, not by copying - Blunt & Karpicke (2014) showed that retrieval of content was more important than the process of writing the maps. Journal of Educational Psychology, 106 (3), 849-858. The limited benefits of rereading educational texts. References Blunt, J. Callender, A.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It’s designed for students new to the University of Virginia—but not entirely new to higher education. After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. Yet at the beginning of 2014, Ruth Cady became pregnant. The course is called Transformations.

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Jonathan Firth

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In my teaching subject (psychology) it might involve giving learners a real-world scenario in which to apply their learning of a concept such as conformity or altruism, and that could be done verbally or using a whiteboard or slide. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13 (2), 146-148. outdoor learning). D’Antonio, L., McDaniel, M.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Thirty years ago, when United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), the union representing rank-and-file educators in the county’s public schools, went on strike, Nadia Morales and Pedro Martinez were students at Los Angeles High School. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. It is impossible not to ask such questions at LA High.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Photo: courtesy of Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings. NEW ORLEANS — As recently as a decade ago, the Youth Study Center would have been unlikely to attract an educational pioneer to their juvenile detention facility. David Domenici, director, Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

It’s a well-intentioned (and bipartisan) idea to help people get the credentials they need, and states build their supply of college-educated workers. Kirk: Massachusetts education officials say returning students like Garcia are responsible for the first public college enrollment increase in nine years. But does free really mean free?

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2016

A study published in the journal Child Development in 2014 found that those born in poverty who received sensitive parenting functioned better socially and academically into adulthood. This story was written by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

They tended to cite a combination of their own optimism coupled with pressure from state officials, who in turn were pressured to meet the federal educational goals set in No Child Left Behind. Educational consultant and former state board member Leslie Jacobs on why charters may have had difficulty reaching projected goals.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

The country as a whole passed that benchmark in 2014.) Overall, the state department of education calculates that 61 percent of Sioux City students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a standard federal measure of student poverty. The district uses a different formula and counts even more students who qualify as low-income.).

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This question is the subject of a long-running debate in psychology, and is the focus of the new book “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise” by Florida State University psychologist Anders Ericsson and science writer Robert Pool. Are experts “born,” endowed with a genetic advantage? Are they entirely “made” through training?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Deep beneath the surface of a massive refugee crisis that’s the worst since World War II is the less well understood reality that tens of thousands of university students leaving Syria and other countries have had their educations interrupted — educations needed for those nations to rebuild if and when the conflicts in them end.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. This is her third year in the profession.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

At each school, educators, experts in psychiatry and development, and mental-health providers work together to improve academic achievement by establishing a place where students can feel a sense of belonging and safety. Tulane University psychology chair Stacy Overstreet. In other words, unaddressed trauma is an educational problem.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. Related: One possible solution for the future of career and technical education. Academically, however, ChiTech soon struggled.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We Wolfe, associate vice president of Jobs for the Future, a Boston-based nonprofit that helps educators and school districts adopt student-centered learning. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2017

Related: Mississippi tops rankings as ‘highest priority state’ in rural education’. With that in mind, school leaders in the state say Hightower’s story — and the district’s response — serve as an important lesson in how educators can effectively use McKinney-Vento to help some of the most vulnerable students. Brown mentors D.J.,

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