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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. Some scholars who have been studying veterans have published their work in the Journal of Veterans Studies , which was established in 2016 by Mariana Grohowski, who is also the editor.

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Do I Have Your Attention?

The Effortful Educator

October 2016. I’ve written for the American Psychological Association several, Education Week, Edutopia, National Education Association, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many more. As Sweller, Ayers, and Kalyuga stated in their book , “Without knowledge of human cognitive processes, instructional design is blind.”

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

billion in grants between 2010 and 2016. billion between 2010 and 2016 to education nonprofits and researchers for the purpose of developing and testing new ideas in the classroom. Credit: Staff/ The Hechinger Report Education journalism is chock full of stories touting some brand new idea that could fix schools.

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PROOF POINTS: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users

The Hechinger Report

More than 10,000 of the students had answered questions on their technology use in the spring of fifth grade in 2016. The psychological literature is muddy with several studies finding no harm to children’s mental health. The children are selected to represent the nation’s geographic, income and racial diversity.

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Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Martin Credé, a social psychologist at Iowa State University, has been particularly outspoken. ” Credé first published his analysis of all the grit studies he could find and laid out the problems in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2017. . Choose as many as you like.

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Restorative justice is about more than just reducing suspensions

The Hechinger Report

Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) Leave this field empty if you're human: And there’s evidence for that effect. Photo: Jim Vaiknoras for The Hechinger Report. at his teacher, bringing class to a halt.

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3 studies argue against fidget spinners in the classroom

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Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation He decided to study fidget spinners in 2016 after his then five-year-old daughter asked for them for Christmas. Choose from our newsletters.