The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

The Hechinger Report: In your two books, Measuring Up (2009) and The Testing Charade (2017) , you explain how testing inevitably led to test score inflation and, instead of improving schools, it harmed children and ruined teaching. I teach English to adult immigrants, which is fun but extraordinarily difficult.

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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. One fan is a Harvard doctoral candidate who read Carol Dweck’s best-selling book, “Mindset,” in 2008 when she was teaching low-income teens in New York City. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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The Hechinger Report

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The $26-million school opened in 2017 with a central goal: to make kindergarten here more playful and joyful. Sara Stevens teaches a lesson to her kindergarteners. A state law mandated full-day kindergarten starting in the 2017-18 school year. It is the natural way in which we learn.”. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

The trend is especially acute for Black men, with about 138,000 fewer Black men enrolled in college last year than in 2017. Related: Bachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape — and it’s getting worse Nationally, about 138,000 fewer Black men were enrolled in college last year compared to 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. But true multitasking is a myth. Our brains focus on one thing by shutting out others.

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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. ” Oregon’s leaders appear to see merit in teaching math in context.

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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. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

A 2017 Government Accountability Office report found that half of the colleges that had closed since 2010 had recently received passing scores. Under federal regulations that went into effect this summer, any school placed on the highest level of this monitoring must submit what’s known as a teach-out plan to its accrediting agency.

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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.” Work-based learning is an instructional approach to classroom teaching that connects it to the workplace.

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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

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. Teaching was not my initial goal. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. This year there may be as few as 19.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

What we wanted to be able to do is teach educators the psychology of stress, the biology of stress and evidenced-based strategies to manage stress, for themselves and for their kids,” he said. Nationally, nearly 1 in 5 female college students is a single mom, but only 28 percent graduate, according to a 2017 report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2019

Graduate teaching assistants went on strike last year and forced the university to waive some fees, but fees have since been added and increased. The total amount of fees charged by universities and colleges more than doubled in the 15 years ending in 2017, the last period for which the figure is available, even when adjusted for inflation.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

If they love trucks and cars, teach them the names of every truck and car you see. In everything we do, we want to focus like a flashlight in a dark room on exactly what we are teaching. This may contribute to a self-efficacy decline (Volkman, 2017). Have a few sets of vocabulary cards available each week.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

After a year of teaching there, he’d come to believe that he could help any student get into 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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A Psychology Teacher Writes

MARCH 10, 2023

I’m coming at this from a Psychology perspective, and I’m thinking mostly about extended responses or essays. What might have gained a 7/8 in 2017 might only score 5/8 in 2019. That said, I do think many of the arguments outlined here will apply to many other subject domains, and be relevant for short answer questions too.

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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. Wellness is a Community Effort Educators are not teaching children on their own, though. Darling-Hammond, Linda. Jones, M.,

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Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

Firstly, evidence-based education is the idea that research of various kinds should be used to inform decisions about teaching and learning. It is conceived of as an alternative to teaching practice that is guided by intuition and/or experience. Coe et al - the Sutton Trust report Coe et al (2014)’s report ‘What makes Great Teaching?’

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. These students’ parents “were a lot more involved” in their educations than was the case in previous generations, said Jablonski. This is just how they’ve been raised and what they’ve come to expect.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2018

Sanchez said wind jobs require fewer years of training than well-paying healthcare jobs like nursing, also a ballooning industry here, and often pay better than jobs that require a four-year degree, like teaching. The program doesn’t just test students’ math skills, it also tests their physical and psychological fitness for the job.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Students can take their artifacts home, share what they learned with their families, and teach younger siblings. “I honestly cannot imagine teaching social studies without providing each student with a copy of their student publication.” Current Directions in Psychological Science , 27 (5). Annisette, L. Wammes, J.

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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

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. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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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. Kang et al, 2011 ) and may even be beneficial ( Metcalfe, 2017 ; Richland et al, 2009 ). Psychology of Education Review, 42 (2), 15-22. Evidence-based study habits.

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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 continues to adapt its educational model for teaching vulnerable kids. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Image: Fras333 The quality of teaching matters to how well pupils do at school. 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.

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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. Putting kids into the system, particularly into the prison system, only teaches them to be better criminals.”. Nobles Minds charter school opened in 2017.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 30, 2021

The key is to not only rely on this teaching technique as it mainly focuses on providing information and modeling as opposed to active learning. Create opportunities for students to teach each other. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(4), 610. The relative benefits of learning by teaching and teaching expectancy.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

This raises the questions, are we teaching syndemic and how best to do so? Secondly, syndemic health conditions adversely interact through various biological or psychological mechanisms or pathways. Why teach syndemics? 2017, Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions and Stigma Syndemics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

ethos to her teaching. The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We percent in 2017. Students learn at different paces and via different teaching styles, the thinking goes. percent in 2017. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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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. This nine-part series explores how we’re teaching through climate change. It was a 180 turn.”.

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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. And the interest is coming from presidents and provosts.”. At Concordia, as for many of the 400 schools that have worked with JED, outreach followed tragedy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

But are they any better than traditional schools, or other progressive teaching philosophies? In the October, 2017, preschool study , published in Frontiers in Psychology, six researchers looked at two Montessori schools in Hartford, Connecticut. You’d think we’d know the answer to that question by now.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

You give so much of yourselves, yet no matter how much energy, passion, and preparation poured into teaching and caring for students, you feel the work is never done. We see you caring for and teaching our youth how to be good citizens, find things to get excited about, how to be curious, problem solve, and strive to be their best selves.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

The school, where more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 14 percent are counted as homeless, was founded in 2009 to teach skills valued by the booming technology sector. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs.

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