The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

This 2017 photo of a New York City middle school shows growth mindset messages on student-made posters. Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. ” Meanwhile, Schleider is bringing her psychological research back into the schoolhouse.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

. “Grit is probably not where schools should be spending their money and time,” he said, “because it’s not strongly related to academic success and because it’s unlikely to respond well to intervention.” “By definition, grit is passion for something that takes a long time to complete and perseverance.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

High school Junior Andrew Johnson-getting his dreadlocks cut off by a trainer so he can wrestle in a match. percent of all public school students, but about 39 percent of students suspended from school. Related: If schools don’t overhaul discipline, ‘teachers will still be calling the police on our Black students’.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Frustrated. Overwhelmed. However, 7 in 10 of these same educators did not feel prepared to implement trauma-informed practices.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

The Penn State findings echo a 2017 survey by the nonprofit media watchdog, Common Sense, which found that low-income children were sitting in front of a television or a computer screen for almost double the time of a child from a wealthier family. Our study provides some indication of the groups.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2019

In 2017, a team of researchers led by Roger Weissberg , CASEL’s chief knowledge officer and an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, reviewed the follow-up effects of 82 school-based SEL interventions on nearly 100,000 students from kindergarten to high school.

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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. A few years ago, the Dominguez Hills researchers watched hundreds of middle school, high school and university students as they studied. But true multitasking is a myth.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Michael Gallin is a math teacher at Kappa International High School in the Bronx. NEW YORK — Michael Gallin, a 34-year-old math teacher at KAPPA International High School in the Bronx, was winding his way through the cluttered aisles of his algebra classroom listening for sighs of frustration. Now, I say: ‘I can do this.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Ashley is the first in her family to attend college, a freshman studying child psychology on a full scholarship to prestigious Oxford College of Emory University, where annual estimated costs approached $80,000 this year. percent in 2017 to 9.2 Rafael didn’t attend high school because he had to help support his parents and sisters.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sophia Joffe, a high school senior who launched a database for enriched remote learning, at her family’s home in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Guiding high school peers through online learning maze. Credit: Brett Gundlock for The New York Times.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A lot of it has to do with psychology,” said Stuebner. The fact that my kid got a $30,000 scholarship to go to this school — they must really like my kid.”. There’s this perverse belief that high price equals higher quality, and it really does surprise me how strong that psychology is,” Stuebner said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

She lacked mentors in high school and college. If she had had them, they might have advised her on which jobs to take and recommended her for positions that could have forged a more direct path to law school and eventually, a career as a lawyer. It’s just taking me a little longer than I expected.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She actually liked the country song. Plus, she had little to lose.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

That meant Cristian started his first day of school in America without a hug from his mom or a reassuring smile from his dad. Nor did he walk into school with his brother. percent in 2017 , according to the Migration Policy Institute. In 2017, a pork-packing plant opened and brought another 2,400 jobs to the city.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. I would hire every qualified licensed teacher, our schools would, that we could find. Students walk the halls of Helena-West Helena’s Central High School between class periods.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A Hechinger analysis of school discipline data from 20 states found widespread use of suspensions for students of all ages for ill-defined, subjective categories of misbehavior, such as disorderly conduct, defiance and insubordination. From 2017 to 2022, state reports cited these categories as a reason for suspension or expulsion more than 2.8

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. This is increasingly true among high school graduates less accustomed to forging their own paths, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. It is impossible not to ask such questions at LA High. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. When I got to high school, I crashed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2018

The Webb Consolidated Independent School District, which serves Bruni and a handful of other tiny towns, is launching what might be the nation’s first wind turbine technician program for high school students. The position requires technical school training. We were getting paid good money,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2017

About a hundred years ago, the campaign to make high school free and mandatory got underway. Up until that point, high school graduates were mainly those from wealthier families who could send their children to private high schools. Adults who had poor grades in high school but are eager for a new chance.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The school responded by overhauling its approach — adding teachers, behavioral specialists and extra academic support. Gradually, its scores improved and its students in the child welfare system began to outperform foster children attending other schools. But that hasn’t happened.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Wider problems outside of the school system exacerbate the challenges individual schools face in serving students with disabilities. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Every senior spends a month working outside of school at full-time internships throughout Chicago. Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. Linnea Garrett, Chicago Technology Academy school director. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of their predecessors had done: going to college. This story also appeared in Wired. How can we work together to fix it?’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. At Concordia, as for many of the 400 schools that have worked with JED, outreach followed tragedy. And the interest is coming from presidents and provosts.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Revere High School students eating and socializing in the cafeteria. Most days in Nancy Barile’s English course at Revere High School, a visitor might begin to wonder when the real class is going to start. Revere High School’s adjusted four-year graduation rate rose from 71.5 percent in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The recent expansion of offerings has spurred more discussion about the ethics involved in supporting students – how much schools and mental health should intersect and where the guardrails should be. That’s about 15% of K-12 public schools in the United States. School staff need proper training and oversight, he says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

The results are mixed: promising for preschool, not so promising for older students in high school. In the October, 2017, preschool study , published in Frontiers in Psychology, six researchers looked at two Montessori schools in Hartford, Connecticut.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class.

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ED Surge

JULY 29, 2024

When I went to college, right out of high school, I got my degree in psychology and knew I wanted to do something in that realm, but circumstances didn't allow for that for quite some time. Now we're in elementary schools, we're in middle schools, we're in high schools. You're an educator.’

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Research in neuroscience and psychology explains these lasting benefits. That has huge implications for what you do in schools. When surveyed about the characteristics of an impactful teacher in 2017, Terada expressed that people rarely mentioned academics or test scores. And you may be the only positive thing they can rely on.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ava had always felt comfortable at the small, private K-8 school she attended just north of Boston. But in high school everything changed. Ava first began to experience anxiety and depression after her parents divorced, when she was still in grade school. Eli stopped going to school. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The campus of Paradise High School, which was damaged in the Camp Fire but survived. How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2017

New Orleans police officers set up barricades at the Jefferson Davis monument on May 4, 2017 in New Orleans, Loiusiana. But living tributes to white supremacy are still among us: racist teachers and schools with discriminatory policies are hurting black children every day. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

She’s been working with this group and 20 other preschool teachers and directors in the area since the beginning of the school year. These suspensions don’t improve behavior and can have far-reaching consequences — children who are suspended in preschool are more likely to drop out of high school and later to be incarcerated.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Instead of protecting students, these police rely on criminal procedures to respond to normal youthful behavior that could be addressed by school faculty through safe and effective disciplinary policies. In the 2017-18 school year, nearly 230,000 students were referred to law enforcement, and about one-quarter of those students were arrested.

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