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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

This might play out differently dependent on the level of experience and expertise of each individual teacher: More novice teachers may lack awareness because they literally don’t see things in their classrooms that more expert teachers do (Wolff et al, 2016) and/or because they lack the mental models to analyse and interpret what is happening.

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OPINION: Early ed should adopt these 3 ideas from Montessori schools

The Hechinger Report

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the percentage of 3- to 5-year-olds enrolled in full-day education programs has risen from 47 percent in 2000 to 54 percent in 2016. The United States cannot maintain its status as an economic powerhouse if we fail to focus properly on basic skills.

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PROOF POINTS: Study finds guaranteed free tuition lures low-income students

The Hechinger Report

Susan Dynarski, an economist who helped design and conduct the experiment at the University of Michigan and is now a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, said the study demonstrates the psychological power of “certainty.” A draft was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March 2022.

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Dealing with digital distraction

The Hechinger Report

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. Inevitably, something gets missed. Some differing views.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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Kids are shooting hoops with rolled up socks, but pandemic phys ed is not cancelled

The Hechinger Report

Children who are aerobically fit are not only physically healthier than their sedentary peers — their brains are more developed, too, said Charles Hillman, a psychology professor at Northeastern University. In normal times, the median budget for PE equipment and supplies is just $764 a year per school, according to a 2016 report by SHAPE.

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

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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