Digital Promise

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

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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

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.”. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Christina Hinton, faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Founder and Executive Director of Research Schools International (RSI) , and Dr. Tom Callahan, Director of the Merck-Horton Center for Teaching and Learning, and educator at St. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Vansteenkiste, M., Sheldon, K.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

About a month after Governor Malloy sought to recognize paraprofessionals’ work, the state announced its teaching shortage areas. For instance, on the opposite coast, California certified fewer bilingual teachers in 2014-15 than any other year in the past decade. However, their pathways into teaching contain many hurdles.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

After a year of teaching there, he’d come to believe that he could help any student get into college. 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.

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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. Inevitably, something gets missed. Some differing views.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Often, we teach learners in school with a view to preparing them for a future which is inherently unpredictable, and so varied practice is probably a good idea for all subjects and topics. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13 (2), 146-148. Experimental cognitive psychology and its applications (pp. outdoor learning).

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Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

Firstly, evidence-based education is the idea that research of various kinds should be used to inform decisions about teaching and learning. It is conceived of as an alternative to teaching practice that is guided by intuition and/or experience. Coe et al - the Sutton Trust report Coe et al (2014)’s report ‘What makes Great Teaching?’

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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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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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. Still, she has to teach them, for instance, that a child who is fussing because a toy was taken away needs a hug, not the toy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Despite the recent uptick, Jenkins points out that community college enrollment in Massachusetts is actually down nearly 40 percent since 2014. They’re going to have to schedule the courses when students need them, not Tuesday through Thursday between 10 and 1, when the professors want to teach. It’s also down nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

The country as a whole passed that benchmark in 2014.) She now helps other teachers learn how to teach immigrant students who are still learning English. Now a senior, Cristian is enrolled in four AP classes (Psychology, Biology, Computer Science, and Spanish) and two dual-credit classes with the local college (physics and calculus).

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

This raises the questions, are we teaching syndemic and how best to do so? Secondly, syndemic health conditions adversely interact through various biological or psychological mechanisms or pathways. Why teach syndemics? 2014, Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

ethos to her teaching. The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We Students learn at different paces and via different teaching styles, the thinking goes. We watch the show and dissect it.”. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At a time when we are witnessing yet another political battle to restrict students and young people from learning about Black history, I want to remind us all that learning and teaching Black history shouldn’t be a matter of choice or convenience – it is a necessity. For me, the ability to teach Black history is a matter of life and death.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

After 13 years of teaching, I’ve had just over 1,700 students walk in and out of my classroom. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

The school, where more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 14 percent are counted as homeless, was founded in 2009 to teach skills valued by the booming technology sector. 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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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

It also moved his grandmother to teach him, her youngest grandchild, to speak Nakoda. 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 That, alone, moved mountains,” Helgeson said.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Willie Carver, a former high school teacher and Kentucky’s Teacher of the Year in 2022, left teaching this year because of threats he faced as an openly gay man. Ketron moved here from Cincinnati in 2014 with her then-husband, seeking to live on a farm within driving distance of large cities. Some families have sued.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unpacking the ‘British Values’ Although promoting fundamental ‘British Values’ as part of spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development in maintained schools is non-statutory, these values do go a long way in ensuring establishments can meet their obligations under section 78 of the Education Act 2002 (Gov.UK, 2014). Chowdhury, Z.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Many have no choice but to leave children in settings that won’t teach them skills that will help them get to college or snag a high-paying job. In 2016, the online education news outlet Chalkbeat reported that only 18 percent of children nationally are served by before- and after-school programs. The federal government could help.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Many of them had been severely traumatized during Israel’s so-called Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014. As an anthropologist, I follow their lead: to persist in bearing witness , in teaching about disability , and in speaking out against injustice , in Palestine and elsewhere.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. If we didn’t build CVHS, we would have many students going elsewhere, without question.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

It appears that little grade-level content is being taught, with much teaching relegated to online courses. Along the way, with Caleb under doctors’ care, the Agnews tried a variety of medications to help him with his psychological problems, together with family and individual therapy. Some of this helped.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. Like her predecessor, Schaeperkoetter doesn’t have any teaching experience and isn’t a state employee.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

As soon as possible, they join the workforce and pay back their student loans, and I don’t blame them,” said Ghazinour, an assistant professor who teaches data privacy and related topics on this campus less than 40 miles from where the Republicans will hold their national convention this month. READ MORE. “As percent in March 2011 to 4.2

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

According to a guide published on the American Psychological Association website, 70 percent of middle and high school students were bullied at some point in their school career and 5 to 15 percent of youth are chronic victims. Related: Dress codes can’t cover for bad teaching.

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