The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

According to a 2006 report by the American Psychological Association, “mentored individuals often earn higher performance evaluations, higher salaries, and faster career progress than non-mentored individuals.” And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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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.

Sociology 112

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A year and a half after the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history, students are coping with the psychological consequences of living through a megadisaster that sent them running for their lives. In California, seven of the ten most destructive fires on record have occurred since 2015. It was a 180 turn.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

In New Orleans, Crocker is at the vanguard of a collaborative of five schools launched in 2015 by the city’s health department. It simply didn’t work for about a third of suspended students, said Amanda Aiken, a College Prep administrator who was Crocker’s principal when the school began to implement a trauma-informed model in 2015.

Psychology 105

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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 In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

psychology class. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. — It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee. Doug Sofer, professor of history, Maryville College in Tennessee. This has not been made the institutional priority some of us hoped it would become,” said Sofer, the history professor at Maryville.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

But given the weight of history, the persistence of poverty and the depth of disaffection here, it’s fair to ask: Is a three-year grant really enough to pull Montana’s reservation schools back from the brink? The superintendent quoted in a November 2015 Atlantic article about the launch of the grant program in Heart Butte has already left.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Since November 2015, Alyssa had lived in foster care, and her time with her mother had been restricted to twice-weekly visits, meted out one hour or so at a time, in the drab office of a child welfare organization and under the supervision of a caseworker. I have never in my history of taking care of kids had to write out a 10-day notice.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Ten years after graduating, math majors out-earn graduates in other fields by about 17 percent, according to an analysis by the Burning Glass Institute using the education and job histories of more than 50 million workers. gross domestic product by 2015. There’s already ample and dramatic evidence of this. percent bump in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Teachers valued her blackness, she said, and taught her the history of African and African-American strength. She’d found, in Ghana, a community and history that affirmed her strength as a black woman. She wanted to major in psychology and minor in criminal law, she told me. I already have a plan of what I’m going to do.”.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Rereading what I wrote then about deaf students at the ASDC while witnessing the flattening of Gaza 10 years later feels chilling—a visceral reminder that the history of Palestine, as numerous commentators have observed , did not begin on October 7, 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Dylan Roof (C), the suspect in the mass shooting that left nine dead in a Charleston church, appears in court accompanied by assistant defensive attorney William Maguire July 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. According to a 2015 analysis in The New York Times , 1.5 History has shown the results of this path we’re on.

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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! But rural districts aren’t the only problem.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A Antioch enrolled only 45 new students last fall, compared to a goal of 80; its total enrollment now is 115, down from a 1960s peak of 2,000 and a post-reopening high of 266 in 2015.).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

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. Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times? courses in middle school and high school, he said. Some families have sued.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Asked in a 2015 survey to describe how they felt in school, the words high school students used most frequently were “tired,” “stressed,” and “bored.” Our kids are tired of education,” said Dougherty, who teaches history. High school, it seems, is an uncomfortable place for a lot of students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018, for the first time in district history, a majority of Sioux City’s 14,976 students, about 52 percent, were people of color. 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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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. This question has two distinct connotations. On the one hand, asking “What’s the worst that could happen?”

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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. Inspiration for these squadrons sprang from a 1946 study surveying 10,000 Americans, according to the 1990 API history.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

Before reporting to assigned tables, students received a two-page fact sheet (including, for example, “There have been 1,492 executions since 1976”; “from 2000 to 2015, 43% of inmates killed under the death penalty had received a mental illness diagnosis”). Then came verbal guidelines. Keep an open mind.”. I have made a lot of friends.”.

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