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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

So 2017, right? 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. A student plays with a fidget spinner at school.

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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. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The $26-million school opened in 2017 with a central goal: to make kindergarten here more playful and joyful. A state law mandated full-day kindergarten starting in the 2017-18 school year. It is the natural way in which we learn.”.

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

y Christmas, 12 percent of Sci Academy’s first graduates had either dropped out or transferred to a community college. psychology class. 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 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.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Engagement and Focus According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics, children ages 8-12 spend three times more on screens than is recommended daily. E., & Lafreniere, K. Current Directions in Psychological Science , 27 (5). Frontiers in Psychology , 10.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2017

Some have argued that our country’s success throughout the past century was built upon free K-12 education. 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

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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APRIL 14, 2018

The program doesn’t just test students’ math skills, it also tests their physical and psychological fitness for the job. The nation’s more than 52,000 wind turbines in 41 states and territories have helped generate a total of 102,500 jobs so far, according to a 2017 industry report. To do better than whatever they’re doing now.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Michelle Fine, a professor of psychology at the Graduate Center at City University of New York, said the problem is much deeper than an information gap. Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

At Haven, a decade-old South Bronx charter school serving roughly 450 kids in pre-K through seventh grade, moods are characterized by colors. The goal with Alyssa, as with all her classmates, is to keep her “in the green.” Red and blue represent unpleasant moods: anger, frustration; sadness, boredom. But that hasn’t happened.

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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. Noble Minds plans to rely less on philanthropy over time as it adds more grades and becomes a full K-8 school. Nobles Minds charter school opened in 2017.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While boys and girls each make up about half of K-12 public school students, boys appear to be doing a majority of the bullying — at least based on who gets reprimanded. The expulsion rate is actually an improvement over the nearly 26 percent total in 2017-18 , when Black boys made up 7.7 percent of K-12 enrollment.

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JUNE 29, 2022

A 2017 study of mental health services in elementary schools by researchers at Florida International University found “school-based services demonstrated a small-to-medium effect in decreasing mental health problems, with the largest effects found for targeted intervention.”. That’s about 15% of K-12 public schools in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

The opportunity for full-day K should be available for all,” said Harris Cooper, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. During the summer of 2017, Paradis said, she and Main Dunstable’s three kindergarten teachers focused on the logistics of doubling their students’ time in school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs. We definitely want to have them back next year.”.

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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. California has previously taken steps to curb preschool suspensions.

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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 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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We percent in 2017. percent in 2017. The high school dropped from a Level 1 school in 2015 to a Level 3 school in 2017 on the state report card, which looks at standardized test scores.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

In the October, 2017, preschool study , published in Frontiers in Psychology, six researchers looked at two Montessori schools in Hartford, Connecticut. Meanwhile, a September, 2017, study published in Economics of Education Review found that a Montessori education didn’t make a difference for teenagers.

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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. 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.

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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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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Arendt, K., & Thastum, M. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology , 7 (1), 68-80. Journal of School Psychology, 50(3), 379-401. Psychology and Aging , 35 (1), 41. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice , 12 (4), 365. References Hoyer, J., Crawcour, S., Johnsen, D.

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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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Edthena

MARCH 26, 2021

The CDC recently released its operational strategy guide for K-12 schools around implementation tips for safe in-person learning and school reopenings. Read more on Edutopia: Addressing Race and Racism Head-On in the Classroom. Expert suggestions for redesigning your in-person learning spaces. Here are a few of the highlights. .

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2017

A 2017 report by the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness ranked Mississippi last in identifying homeless students. From 2010 to 2014, the organization found the number of homeless students in pre-K through 12th grade rose 19 percent, to just under 1.3 .” This seems especially true in Mississippi. million nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Higher grades ,” which ran on August 16, 2017. August 23, 2017. August 1, 2017): Finland and other countries with high student achievement do not offer young children computers at all. Psychology Today, et al) This is a risky experiment. August 1, 2017. Virginia Buege, reader. — Virginia Buege.

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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. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, looks over the calendar as lawmakers rush to finish their business, Friday, May 26, 2017, in Austin, Texas. This alarmed librarians. She recalled receiving the letter. “I

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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.” In Florida, classroom teachers and librarians are emptying bookshelves rather than risk a felony for having the an unapproved title.

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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 Teachers with no degree also earn more in school-sponsored public pre-K than in community-based centers. for kindergarten teachers.

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JUNE 24, 2018

In Mississippi, more than 62 percent of youth who suffer a major depressive episode — 13,000 kids — don’t get any professional help, according to national statistics from a 2017 report. “A In fiscal year 2017, the response teams received 23,168 calls for help, and provided 15,668 face-to-face visits. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“Not all, but characteristically, the students who fall into the profile of a mean, bullying person, are in fact people who are struggling with psychological issues,” Cohen said. Instead, he argues that schools should combine consequences for bullies with mediation, counseling or a learning experience.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2025

That was 2017, and Evangelista was then a principal. When students perceive that their classmates and teachers view them as a problem, they can lose motivation to attend school, says Prerna Arora, an associate professor of psychology and education at Teachers College Columbia University. Its not just deportation.

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JANUARY 27, 2019

Fourteen states , including Arkansas, Nevada and Tennessee, now have social-emotional learning goals for K-12 students, according to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, a national nonprofit focused on integrating social emotional learning into American school curricula. In 2017, 17.2 In 2017, 17.2

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