The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In the paper, Willingham traces the history of teaching critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In fact, down the hallway from his algebra class, two industrious history teachers were trying out their own strategies. After the June 2017 Regents, 25 of the 41 students who had repeatedly failed the state exam passed — a rate of 61 percent. Gallin’s school was one of them. The small tweaks paid off.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report It also places the Rodriguez sisters on opposite sides of history: Ashley applied to college when schools in many states could still consider race, while Emily can expect no such advantage. percent in 2017 to 9.2 We have so much history behind us as people of color,” Emily said. “So

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

According to a 2006 report by the American Psychological Association, “mentored individuals often earn higher performance evaluations, higher salaries, and faster career progress than non-mentored individuals.” And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

I am also interested in psychology and neuroscience. In 2017, the World Health Organization estimated that hundreds of thousands of people will die each year due to climate change. Before I realized that the climate crisis was threatening my future, I associated college with freedom and adventure. I am an artist.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. The problems pre-date Nellis, who arrived in 2017. psychology professor, saw how it hurt the shops and eateries along Court Street.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

psychology class. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. while she puzzled over psychology homework in the one hour she had to spare.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

In 2017, 59 percent of its third- through fifth-graders earned a proficient score on the state tests compared with 42 percent of third- through fifth-graders citywide; discipline has shown improvement too. I have never in my history of taking care of kids had to write out a 10-day notice.” Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. “I

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

There is a long history of research looking into the importance of spoken language as foundational for learning to read and write. This may contribute to a self-efficacy decline (Volkman, 2017). Have a few sets of vocabulary cards available each week. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92(2), 140-160.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Research in neuroscience and psychology explains these lasting benefits. 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. That has huge implications for what you do in schools.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader? What book that looks honestly at U.S. What Can We Do? Order buttons.

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Edthena

MARCH 26, 2021

Help your students see themselves when teaching American history. Here are some helpful tips on how to properly discuss race when teaching American history. . Anderson, a journalist. As a student, Miller learned about Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! Murdock says in the 2017 legislative session he will push to tighten the language of the waivers law to give the State Board of Education less influence in its implementation. She is 35, and this wasn’t exactly her plan. “My The state is largely an outlier in this.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Rereading what I wrote then about deaf students at the ASDC while witnessing the flattening of Gaza 10 years later feels chilling—a visceral reminder that the history of Palestine, as numerous commentators have observed , did not begin on October 7, 2023. Israel’s genocidal war endangers deaf and disabled Palestinians disproportionately.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

This year’s adult retreat leader, history teacher Ned Dougherty, addresses the whole freshman class (sitting in bleachers) and the 80 seniors who participated in the annual three-day retreat at Taos High in October 2018. Our kids are tired of education,” said Dougherty, who teaches history. In 2017, 17.2

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, looks over the calendar as lawmakers rush to finish their business, Friday, May 26, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The Watkins Glen conference also came on the heels of one of the most violent and divisive school textbook battles in history.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the introduction to this chapter, Wilson makes a poignant link to the Equality Act with regards to nurturing belonging, psychological safety and developing confidence.* For instance, in 2021 for the first time in its 200-year history the UK Census allowed people the option to state their sexual orientation and gender identity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

About 6 percent of today’s immigrants are children and 26 percent of all children in the country in 2017 had at least one immigrant parent , according to the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank dedicated to studying migration and immigration trends. percent in 2017 , according to the Migration Policy Institute. She thinks so.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

Julie Wollman, president of Widener University, who launched the Common Ground Initiative there in fall 2017 to lead regular conversations on campus for students and faculty, thinks people simply “want to find a better way.” WeListen , a club started by University of Michigan students in 2017, is aggressively balanced.

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