The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marraccini, an associate professor of school psychology at UNC’s School of Education Now, as the rate of young people experiencing mental health distress climbs, with in-patient mental health hospitalizations rising by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022 according to one measure, the need for school support programs has grown.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

A 2016 study found that not one textbook in commonly used teacher-training programs adequately covered the science of learning. Psychology professor Daniel Willingham and middle school teacher Paul Bruno, working with the organization Deans for Impact, summarized these concepts in a concise 2015 report, “ The Science of Learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

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!”) Students participate in a restorative circle, a practice that’s part of a movement away from harsh discipline in schools. Photo: Jim Vaiknoras for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

” 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. ” Duckworth’s “Grit” has sold more than a million copies worldwide since it was published in 2016. And many schools have embraced it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2023

Among nearly 1 million students who started at a community college in 2016, just one in seven earned a bachelor’s degree within six years, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse. The school didn’t accept her classes in psychology — her major — because they weren’t considered a match.

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The Effortful Educator

AUGUST 5, 2024

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. That’s when I started this blog and posted for the first time. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

He recalls speaking with a white student he was advising at public Binghamton University in upstate New York, where just 4 percent of tenure-track instructors in 2016 were black, according to federal figures. “He percent of tenure-track instructors in 2016 were black, while 2.7 At the University of Washington, federal data show, 1.8

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Jill Barshay/ The Hechinger Report / The Hechinger Report For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math. They were preparing for a critical test, the New York State’s Regents examination in algebra. “You

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

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 federal investment highlights the importance of providing children with opportunities to excel.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

26, 2019 in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, looked at what happened when researchers randomly gave fidget spinners to college students and had them watch educational videos in a laboratory setting at the University of California, Santa Cruz. ” First, the evidence.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Luckily for all of us, the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest published a review article a few years ago that remains the most comprehensive guide out there. Illustration: Stuart Kinlough/Getty Images. Researchers have devoted decades to studying how to study. The research literature is frankly overwhelming.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. reprimands for every praise statement, Herman calculated in an earlier 2016 study of students in kindergarten through third grade. In reality, most are not.”. Black students received 1.8

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

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.” People are more willing to try something when they know the final cost ahead of time.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The effects of such practices can reverberate throughout a student’s life, according to the American Psychological Association, leading to worse mental health and lower grades. “We Is there a policy making them feel like they have to issue referrals, she offers, or are there particular school settings that lead to it?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. In 2016, a mere 37 percent of the school’s test-takers passed. His students chop off the “Mr.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

College Bridge for All, which launched in 2016, has hired 80 CUNY students on top of the 120 it normally takes on in the summer, at $17 an hour, and given many of them bigger-than-usual caseloads, Myers said. He’s switched his major to psychology and is planning to pursue a master’s degree in school counseling.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

“We have this way of processing things in our brain where we actually attach information to a particular person, so we can imagine that person talking as we read their words,” says Monica Riordan, a cognitive scientist and assistant professor of psychology at Chatham University, in Pittsburgh. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2020

Officials hope the strategy will encourage more students to pursue higher education in a state that in 2016 was dead last in the proportion of its high school graduates who went directly on to college : 44 percent, compared to the national average of 70 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Play is not divorced of learning,” said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, an author, professor of psychology at Temple University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who has studied child development and the role of play in learning for years. “It It is the natural way in which we learn.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When he got into Middlebury College, a selective school in Vermont, Barnes felt confident he would earn a degree by 2016. When he got into Middlebury College, a selective school in Vermont, Barnes felt confident he would earn a degree by 2016. psychology class. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In the 10 years through 2016, college tuition and fees increased by 63 percent , or three times as much as all the other products and services measured by the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. A lot of it has to do with psychology,” said Stuebner. Annual increases in the cost of college long surpassed inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

A 2016 study by University of Chicago behavioral economist Steven Levitt and colleagues found that non-financial rewards were more effective in raising test scores with younger students than with older students. Robinson said she has surveyed educators online and at a conference and found that a vast majority of schools do it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2017

A 2016 Northwestern University study found negative psychological and biological responses to perceived discrimination in school, which led to impaired cognitive functioning and academic performance. Firing a racist teacher isn’t enough — you must also address the trauma that person invariably caused.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

Grundwag, who has a master’s degree in counseling psychology, says some preschool teachers may do things that can aggravate students’ misbehavior, such as talking about a student’s conduct in front of the child or speaking loudly and shaming students in front of their peers. I try to understand that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

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

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York. And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 5, 2017

Our study, published in the Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, found that trained carers were not only much better at book sharing: when they played with their infants without books, they were also more sensitive and responsive. One group of carers, mostly mothers, received the training while the other did not.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

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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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. It was a 180 turn.”. I just think we’re in for a big storm for a while.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Gariecia was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. Nick Davis: currently a World Studies, AP Psychology and Black Studies teacher at Von Steuben High School in Chicago. Paula Katrina, Victoria & Gariecia are all Golden Apple Scholars. This is his third year in the profession.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

The grade-point average of students at private high schools who took the SAT climbed between 1998 and 2016 from 3.25 Troubling, but not surprising, said Richard Weissbourd, director of the Human Development and Psychology program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In suburban public high schools it went from 3.25 to 3.28. “But

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Jonathan Firth

JULY 19, 2016

The testing effect is a well-known psychological phenomena whereby people remember things better if they are tested on them. Benefits that were first established in psychology labs have been shown to apply to real world learning situations such as a middle school science classroom (e.g. Educational Psychology Review, 27 (2), 317-326.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Star shut down abruptly in November 2016. Students attending the Georgia School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University weren’t as fortunate. When Milbrandt had enrolled in the school, she said, it was considered one of the top psychology doctorate programs on the country. The agency never required any plans for closure.

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