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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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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. . “I hope that our findings spur institutions to do some reflection on whether there is more they could do to help all students succeed,” she said. Related: Federal data shows 3.9

Tutoring 116

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report.

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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 Finally, the approach breaks from traditional classrooms where students are expected to sit and listen. We watch the show and dissect it.”. This approach is dynamic.

Teaching 112

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

The field of science is ever changing and advancing, but the fair sticks to fairly rigid, traditional rules. In a pair of studies from 2015 and 2016, Rutgers University psychologists found that competition can harm how well our memories perform. Individuals who value learning seem to be more resilient, persisting despite failures.

Psychology 96

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. in the language, but they do want to speak,” said Dr. 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.

Heritage 92

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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. In May 2015, the district extended ChiTech’s reprieve until 2018. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs.

High School 78

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical. Advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on arbitrary birthdate ranges is illogical.

Elementary School 75

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The Hechinger Report

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. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

Lynch has spent the last 35 years as an advocate for reforming the traditional school experience to include some of the practices she learned during the first part of her career in alternative education. He described alternative schools as being leaders in “marrying the psychological with the educational.”.

High School 100

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The Orleans Parish School Board, which controlled all city schools before Hurricane Katrina, was responsible for a small number of high-performing traditional and charter schools. When the school opened in 2015, its founders planned to set aside 20 percent of its seats for children with reading disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

K-12 76

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors found that nearly 90% of counseling center directors report that the number of students on campus with severe psychological problems has continually increased, and counseling centers struggle to keep up with the demand.

Pedagogy 40

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass student Ivyierra Washington into a traditional Garifuna dress. Martinez pointed the students toward a hut filled with traditional Garifuna clothes, and Endiah slinked behind as the other girls ran toward a rack of gingham dresses. She wanted to major in psychology and minor in criminal law, she told me.

Charter School 92

Charter School High School Cultures Public School 92

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! According to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral.

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Library Advocacy High School Psychology 143

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.

Economics 83

Economics Social Justice Psychology Lesson Plan 83

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Led by senior volunteers, the retreat has become a spirit week tradition in this rural New Mexico county over the past eight years. 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.” I’m living to the best of my abilities.”

K-12 112

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

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). School offices across the district were decorated for Christmas and holiday concerts were planned, many chock full of traditional Christmas carols.

Middle School 104

Middle School Cultures High School Tutoring 104

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

The Georgia program caught the attention of the Department of Justice, which launched an investigation that lasted several years, and resulted in a 21-page letter of findings in July, 2015, and a lawsuit in August, 2016. And still they could do nothing to improve their son’s education as he got shuttled from one GNETS center to another.

Education 83

Education K-12 Advocacy Elementary School 83

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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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. Money is siphoned from traditional public schools and towards a diverse array of unregulated for-profit and private providers.

Charter School 112

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