The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Between 2011 and 2017, the percentage of American adults who own a smartphone more than doubled, to 77 percent , according to the Pew Research Center. In data collected by Cal State Dominguez Hills’ psychologist Larry Rosen, his students’ average daily phone use jumped from 3 hours and 40 minutes in 2016 to 4 hours and 22 minutes in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But eventually she agreed to transition back to school while spending one period a day in the program’s dedicated classroom, where she received emotional and psychological support and assistance catching up on the schoolwork she’d missed. Ava, now a junior, was skeptical at first. Some days I couldn’t even get out of bed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

Anxiety can hinder people even when they’re solving the most basic math problems, according to a 2017 study on adults with high math anxiety. She knows something about working under pressure: a nationally competitive soccer goalie in her youth, Beilock went on to earn PhDs in both sports science and psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Since 2017, 93 percent of students taking it have passed, and 83 percent have achieved all the course’s learning goals, including the ability to use arithmetic, geometry, algebra and trigonometry to solve welding problems, school data show. Kayla LeMaster, 41, is on her second try at a two-year degree.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Economics of Education Review , 68 , 89–103. Current Directions in Psychological Science , 27 (5). Frontiers in Psychology , 10. Annisette, L. E., & Lafreniere, K. Social media, texting, and personality: A test of the shallowing hypothesis. Personality and Individual Differences , 115 , 154–158. Backes, B., & Cowan, J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2018

Since the oil wells slowed down, the biggest economic engines in this no-stoplight town are the county school district, which serves about 300 kids, and a row of makeshift casinos run out of dilapidated houses lining the highway. To do better than whatever they’re doing now.”. They can’t be afraid of heights, for one.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Paul Morgan, an education professor at Pennsylvania State University, said that the economic disadvantage often faced by black and Latino special-needs children has been exacerbated by the way Congress funds special education. Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2017

It reimagines what requirements are needed to have a chance at a life of economic stability, as a member of the middle class, for individuals and their families. Students like Britney Farquharson, a 21-year-old psychology student at LaGuardia Community College. She expects to graduate from LaGuardia in June 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The net of medical and psychological services that support children outside of school is riddled with holes, which makes services within the school system all the more important. The students are predominantly low-income; in the last school year, 81 percent were considered economically disadvantaged, according to state data. “As

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 28, 2019

The Economic Policy Institute issued a report highlighting the immediacy of a growing teacher shortage, particularly in STEM and special education concentrations. To that extent, an understanding of positive psychology and its frameworks is valuable not just for new teachers but for established, mentor teachers and principals as well.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

Or when she graduated from Texas A&M with a master’s degree in educational psychology. In 2017, the median wage for child care workers in all settings was $10.72 , compared to $26.88 In 2017, the median wage for child care workers in all settings was $10.72. She loved her job in the school system. for kindergarten teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! This year there may be as few as 19.

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