The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015. Mississippi Learning. But on many campuses, learning a second language is treated simply as a box to check.

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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. From 2003 to 2015, according to GSU , its graduation rate (finishing a bachelor’s degree within six years of starting) for African-American students rose from 29 to 57 percent.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

2015; Zoll, Feinberg, & Saylor, 2023). Changing models across cultures: Associations of phonological awareness and morphological structure awareness with vocabulary and word recognition in second graders from Beijing, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92(2), 140-160.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. while she puzzled over psychology homework in the one hour she had to spare. When the semester ended in late 2015, Williams withdrew from Delgado. Marcovitz couldn’t sit up with her at 3 a.m.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

We didn’t mention the first edition of Jen’s very popular book, The Reading Strategies Book , which was originally published in 2015. There’s human development and linguistics and neuroscience and psychology and special education and speech language pathology. I could go on and on.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Alfred “Red” Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme “Focusing on the Future.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2017

But the rate of suicide for black children between the ages of 5 and 11 doubled between 1993 and 2013, while rates declined for whites in the same age group, according to a 2015 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When your school becomes a source of pain, there are few places to find psychological relief.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. Related: Students sat in cubicles using computers. It wasn’t popular.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2017

We saw this in Tennessee, which has seen a tremendous uptick in college enrollment after implementing its tuition-free college program, Tennessee Promise , in 2015. To many observers, these data reflect a broader and often harder to achieve impact: the embrace of a college-going culture.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Knowing his culture and practicing his religion help ground him, Helgeson said. As a teacher at Hays-Lodge Pole High School on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, Helgeson works hard to pass on that cultural knowledge. There’s a real urgency that people know the culture which they come from.”. I want to earn it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Local Spanish-speaking Hispanic business leaders took part, helping build a linguistic and cultural bridge between the school and the community. Volunteer State’s efforts have resulted in Hispanic enrollment more than doubling, from 141 in 2006 to 392 in 2015, or from 2 percent of the student population to 5 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Being Tasered by a school resource officer can also traumatize a child psychologically. There is a dearth of research on the overall impact of police on school crime and culture, he added. Zian Tseng, a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist at the University of California in San Francisco who has studied the impact of Tasers. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2017

Mendoza, 22, who ended up taking a year off before returning to Harvard this fall, illustrates a paradox: Nonwhite students are often more stressed than their white classmates, but less likely to seek psychological help. Related: The new minority on campus? Too often, he said, it’s the last part that’s missed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Being in Africa and seeing the things that you have embraced as your culture in this place that you know far preceded it was powerful.”. Uwahnie Martinez (left), the owner of Palmento Grove Cultural Center in Belize, helps Frederick A.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

For example, a 2015 study found that schools with relatively larger minority and poor populations are more likely to implement criminal justice-oriented disciplinary policies — such as suspensions, expulsions, police referrals and arrests — and less likely to connect students with psychological or behavioral care.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In some circles, the use of capitalization for “Deaf” and “Disabled” indicates a cultural identity rather than a medical diagnosis. As a staff member at the ASDC explained in 2015 in reference to the Israeli military operation, “Not all families were able to use sign language to explain the reason behind the brutality.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Department of Education data from 2015, since the 2008-2009 school year there’s been a 30 percent drop in enrollment nationwide: 75 percent of enrollees in traditional programs are white, 11 percent Hispanic, and 9 percent black. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! You’re taught really about cultural competencies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Yet, according to the Babson Survey Research Group , while an impressive 6 million students took at least one online course in fall 2015, the most recent period for which the figure is available, almost half were served by only about 5 percent of colleges and universities. Other institutions have seen little growth in this area.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars. But when the Supreme Court in 2015 recognized the legal right of same-sex couples to marry, opponents of gay rights pivoted to focus on trans individuals, particularly trans youth. Some families have sued.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

percent of worldwide humanitarian aid goes to education of any kind, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization , or UNESCO. universities and colleges during the 2014-2015 academic year, the most recent period for which figures are available, only 792 were Syrian, the IIE reports.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s a culture shift to recognize that humans are emotional beings and emotions can be harnessed and channeled to improve academic performance and improve relationships and improve decision making,” Hoffman said. New Mexico is not one of them. Educators, policymakers and students from across the country seem to be making that shift.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. 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). He and his wife arrived a few weeks after the boys back in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

says Title IX is usually associated with sex-based equity in athletics—having girls’ basketball and track teams, for instance, in the male-dominated culture of sports. In the 2014-2015 school year, federal funding made up almost 15 percent of Mississippi’s total revenue for school districts—$672,385,143.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Giving students the opportunity to practice this important American cultural norm gives our students the edge in college and in life.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

percent of worldwide humanitarian aid goes to education of any kind, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization , or UNESCO. universities and colleges during the 2014-2015 academic year, the most recent period for which figures are available, only 792 were Syrian, the IIE reports.

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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. Listed as a contact for an all-expenses-paid teachers’ worksho p in 2015 promoting “Arkansas Energy Rocks!”

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