The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Researchers have consistently found that some high-achieving high school students – the ones with straight A’s and SAT scores above 1200 – don’t bother to apply to top colleges despite the likelihood of admission and a free ride. A draft was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. “We The Penn State researchers analyzed an existing U.S. Some racked up considerably more hours.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Three research studies find that the objects detract from learning. So 2017, right? But the research process is slow and methodical, and finally in 2019, there is more conclusive evidence that the whirring lobes of plastic are harmful to learning. Some schools banned them from classrooms well before researchers had the proof.

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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. Research shows that fostering SEL improves students’ academic achievement by an average of 11 percentile points. Frustrated. Overwhelmed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Susan Wagner Cook, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa, has conducted numerous studies with scenarios like these – both with live teachers and with animated avatars (see video). Susan Wagner Cook, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences, University of Iowa.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The distraction researchers at Dominguez Hills — Cheever, and psychologists Larry Rosen and Mark Carrier — are digging deeper into compulsive tech use. 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. Divided minds.

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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. Researchers are finding mindset exercises benefit certain kinds of students and not others. Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2019

Research has found notable connections among SEL skills and academic success, behavioral health as well as social-emotional development in school and later in life. Saiying Steenbergen-Hu is a research associate professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University and a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project.

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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. a research analyst for higher education at Ed Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

At the time, The New York City Department of Education was developing a research division focused solely on student motivation. Alicia Wolcott, a school advisor for Eskolta School Research and Design, a New York-based education-consulting firm that is working with the New York City Department of Education on academic and personal behaviors.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

college undergraduates, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, and each year far more women are enrolling in higher education than men. The trend is especially acute for Black men, with about 138,000 fewer Black men enrolled in college last year than in 2017. Women now make up about 58 percent of U.S.

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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. While recent research shows kids can, for the most part, handle more rigorous content in early years , educators and experts are worried that schools have been getting it wrong. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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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. “We We actually learned equations I’m going to use, like setting ladder rungs,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has given American schoolchildren a reprieve from this all-consuming spring ritual but it also has wreaked havoc with research studies that rely on test scores to measure whether an intervention is working. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.). I’m not a critic of testing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

From 2017 to 2022, state reports cited these categories as a reason for suspension or expulsion more than 2.8 It erodes their relationship with teachers,” said Iruka, who is also the founding director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at UNC, a group that researches and develops policies to address bias in the classroom.

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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

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. But not enough companies provide these opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2019

This is especially true among the many who were promised free tuition and small stipends to work as teaching or research assistants, but who have been surprised to find they still have to pay thousands of dollars in fees with euphemistic names and indeterminate purposes. Graduate students are “a core engine of research and discovery.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Meanwhile, flagships and major research campuses saw a 1.4 The problems pre-date Nellis, who arrived in 2017. Enrollments have been falling since 2017; for the past three years the university has dipped into its financial reserves. psychology professor, saw how it hurt the shops and eateries along Court Street.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Researchers have found that low-income students are more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree if they attend more challenging institutions, so Sci’s teachers encouraged the teenagers to enroll in the highest-ranked schools that would accept them — no matter how white, how far away, how foreign. psychology class. Williams loves learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The Consumer Financial Protection Board found in 2017 that Americans age 60 and older owed an average of $23,500 in student loan debt, nearly double the average a decade earlier, though most of those loans were used to pay for children’s and grandchildren’s educations.). Introductory computer classes are particularly popular.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, as the coronavirus crisis throws college balance sheets into disarray, consumer advocates and researchers who study higher education warn that more schools could close with little notice. A 2017 Government Accountability Office report found that half of the colleges that had closed since 2010 had recently received passing scores.

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Jonathan Firth

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It’s always good to see teachers engaging with research, asking questions, and trying to make their practice evidence informed. It would be preferable to see interleaved examples of hawks and falcons (HFHFHFHF) rather than several examples of hawks (HHHH) followed by several examples of falcons (FFFF; Eglinton & Kang, 2017).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Thirty-seven percent now transfer at least once in their college careers, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center , which tracks this; of those, nearly half switch schools more than once. For that matter, more students than ever second-guess their choices about where to even go to college.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

MARCH 10, 2023

This has been guided by research such as that described in the EEF report on effective feedback. The research here is equivocal; the EEF report states that: “Written methods of feedback, including written comments, marks, and scores, can improve pupil attainment; however, the effects of written feedback can vary.”

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Schools that implement comprehensive emotional learning and well-being programs saw a 10% reduction in absenteeism rates within a single academic year, according to a 2019 Journal of Educational Psychology study. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111(3), 502-517. When children enjoy school, they want to come to school. Jones, M.,

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Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

Finding and interpreting educational research can be a challenge for teachers. I recently joined and met with SURE - ‘School and University Research Enquiry’, a research group which has put several schools in the Glasgow area in contact with the University of Strathclyde in order to exchange knowledge and conduct new research.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

When students need to read for understanding, comprehension, or retention, research shows that they perform better with print materials rather than a screen. Research shows that paper learning better engages students, improves material retention and comprehension, and helps them move to a ready-to-learn mindset.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Morgan’s research demonstrates that even when children in the same schools display the same needs, white English-speaking children are more likely to receive the services that they need to excel. Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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Jonathan Firth

DECEMBER 11, 2019

None of these ideas are supported by mainstream psychological science; a linked study of psychology researchers found 0% endorsement in every case. Although this is popular advice and can on occasion provide reassurance to learners, memory researchers such as Robert Bjork advocate varying our study locations.

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Jonathan Firth

APRIL 15, 2018

The question essentially asked what spacing and interleaving might look like in practice when teaching science (I have written about these two concepts in much more detail and in ways that apply to multiple teaching subjects in my book with Marc Smith, Psychology in the Classroom ).

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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. The school responded by overhauling its approach — adding teachers, behavioral specialists and extra academic support.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This question was addressed by the Scottish Government's recent report, ' Teacher Workforce Planning for Scottish Schools ', and also featured in the i nitial findings from their panel of international advisers earlier in July 2017. However, my role also puts me in the category of someone who has left the school classroom!

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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 is backed up both by science of reading research and by neurobiological research (Hong et al., Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92(2), 140-160. 2018; Marks et al., Rueckla, J.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 30, 2021

Research shows how students learn best, and it's not by talking at them for extended periods. By constructing a psychologically safe environment through reframing metacognitive interpretation of subjective difficulty, children can express their full cognitive potential (Autin & Croizet, 2012). Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1454.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Moreover, with regard to syndemics Horton tweeted , The anthropology community is ahead of medicine and public health.Once labeled a little-known buzzword that nonetheless describes our troubled times in Smithsonian Magazine , syndemic theory now informs a rich body of health research and interventions. Why teach syndemics?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

Related: Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses. In the wake of the 2017 Tubbs Fire in California’s wine country, a Santa Rosa Junior College poll revealed how many students were suffering from stress and needed mental health services, said President Frank Chong.

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