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AUGUST 4, 2020

She arrived for class one day in the summer of 2014 and was met with chaos. Yet a Hechinger Report review of news reports since 2014 found more than 30 schools like Anamarc that announced their closings with little or no warning. By that summer of 2014, the federal government knew that Anamarc was struggling.

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JULY 27, 2016

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 Personality and Social Psychology, 107(4), 559. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 246–260. Henderson, M. Walton, G.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2017

A 2014 report from the American Institutes for Research and the National Center on Family Homelessness ranked Mississippi 49th out of the 50 states in identifying and serving homeless children. From 2010 to 2014, the organization found the number of homeless students in pre-K through 12th grade rose 19 percent, to just under 1.3

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Since 2014, Grubb said, the largely Latino district has boosted teacher diversity by more than 30 percent, to a large extent by hiring Latino teachers to staff dual-language programs. Since 2014, North Clackamas has increased new teacher diversity by 35 percent, according to district data. This work is possible.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In 2014, 83 percent of the school’s students graduated within four years; last year, 91 percent did. The school-wide passing rate for the algebra exam rose from 31 percent of students in June 2014 to 70 percent in June 2015. The school’s overall average Algebra Regents exam score went from 60 in 2015 to 67 last year.

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APRIL 12, 2023

History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Nick Davis: currently a World Studies, AP Psychology and Black Studies teacher at Von Steuben High School in Chicago. Paula was in my Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When a grand jury decided not to charge Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in 2014, my mom called me, defeated. These efforts ultimately block young people from learning about Black history and contribute to the psychological, cultural and emotional harm that continues to manifest as physical violence in our society.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

The numbers are stark: In 2014, the U.S. The disparities begin in preschool ; they can have a negative effect on students mentally, psychologically and even physically, and can lead to poor academic performance. The 2019 incident reminded me of what poet Maya Angelou once said: “When you know better, do better.”.

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JUNE 26, 2017

According to a 2014 report by the Perceptions Institute , a think tank that explores unconscious bias, “Few teachers are likely to admit to others (or even to know themselves) that they hold students to different standards or have varying expectations based on race or ethnicity.”.

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MARCH 11, 2019

In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014. As researchers who study how stereotypes and other psychological factors can dissuade girls from pursuing careers in math and science, we believe that parents and educators can help turn things around and close the gender gaps in STEM.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345–375. 2014 Oct;42(7):1038-48. Follow us for the latest updates on this series on Powerful Learning and use our resources to implement powerful learning in your teaching and learning practice. Palincsar, A.S. Social constructivist perspectives on teaching and learning. Educational Researcher, Vol.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. where there is just one school district, 77 percent of white students with special needs who exited during the 2014-15 school year left with a diploma, while just 57 percent of their black and Latino peers did.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

For Tulane University psychology chair Stacy Overstreet, a leader of the five-school collaborative, work with Crocker and other trauma-sensitive schools flows from her work in New Orleans’ public-housing projects, where she found shockingly high rates of children suffering the psychological effects of being exposed to violence.

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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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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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OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In 2014, the high school was chosen as the top urban high school in America by the National Center for Urban School Transformation. We watch the show and dissect it.”. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But eventually she agreed to transition back to school while spending one period a day in the program’s dedicated classroom, where she received emotional and psychological support and assistance catching up on the schoolwork she’d missed. Ava, now a junior, was skeptical at first. Some days I couldn’t even get out of bed.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

psychology class. In 2014, Pierre enlisted in the Air Force, intending to use his salary and the G.I. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. Williams loved Delgado so much that she kept going even after she had to take a second job in 2014.

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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. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Dr. Callahan promotes autonomy by structuring his high school psychology course around the interests of his students. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Journal of personality and social psychology, 87(2), 246. Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being across life’s domains. Vansteenkiste, M.,

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2016

In fact, out of 47 state proposals since 2014 to make college free, 18 have explicitly restricted eligibility by age, generally setting a cutoff of 26 or based on the year a student finished high school, the Education Commission of the States says. But she was stationed in Alaska at the time, making a traditional education difficult.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Isolating people in solitary confinement often enables other (unsanctioned but nonetheless ubiquitous) abusive practices, including many forms of physical, psychological, and sexual violence. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations. prisons and jails.

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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. From 2014 to 2016, the percentage of ChiTech freshmen on track to graduate in four years rose from 63 to 78 percent.

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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. Educational Psychology Review, 27 (2), 317-326.

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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. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 34 (1), 30-41. References Blunt, J. R., & Karpicke, J.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Larry Rosen, psychology professor, is part of a team at Cal State Dominguez Hills using behavioral studies, physiological stress measures and brain scans to investigate how the distraction and anxiety engendered by digital devices can hurt learning. Inevitably, something gets missed. Some differing views.

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MARCH 25, 2019

In 2014, Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. There’s also a psychological critique of rewards, with many arguing that they undermine a child’s ability to develop his or her internal motivation to do the right thing. Source: The Demotivating Effect (and Unintended Message) of Awards by Carly D. Robinson, Jana Gallus, Monica G.

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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., McDermott, K.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Hays-Lodge Pole High School “was in total disarray,” when Margarett Campbell, who has served as her region’s state representative in the Montana legislature, took over as superintendent in 2014. “It The unemployment rate in Hays in 2014 was 25 percent. I needed help.”. These schools exist in communities with almost no tax base.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Being Tasered by a school resource officer can also traumatize a child psychologically. In 1997 only 10 percent of public schools had police officers; in 2014, 30 percent did. Since 2014, the police officers in Scott’s school district have been required to get special training before working with children. Photo: Ben McKeown.

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JULY 7, 2022

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. Earning a college degree is a personal goal for Todd, whose wife teaches clinical psychology at the university. And then wait a minute, I’m gonna be a mom?

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MAY 19, 2016

He got his associate’s degree from Essex County Community College and transferred to Rutgers, which he chose for its connection to Newark and so he could study with urban historian Clement Price (who died in 2014). He also reaches out to other African-American students, especially older males, to help guide them and for support.

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MAY 17, 2016

Temple has seen the proportion of its students who return for their sophomore year increase from 70 percent in 2001 to 82 percent in 2014. These psychological interventions, Tough contends, have the clearest positive effect on college retention. Jones, senior vice provost for undergraduate studies, Temple University.

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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. Testing, in contrast, promotes active retrieval of information (see Karpicke et al, 2014 , for a discussion of theoretical explanations behind the testing effect).

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Over the years, Morales, who holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in school counseling, has been assigned to between a third and a half of LA High’s 1,200 students at a time. Her job is to keep them on track academically by helping them stay in school, choose the right classes, and plan for life after graduation.

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