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

MAY 23, 2020

Sperske never made it to class that morning of November 8, 2018. 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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

“We didn’t find evidence for profound effects and large gains,” said Brooke Macnamara, a Case Western psychology professor and lead author of the study , published in the April 2018 issue of Psychological Science. “This is a delicate psychological process,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers,” said Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College who researches the mental health impacts of natural disasters on children. “You could look up and see the sky,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

Officials at Butte College gathered one fall Wednesday in 2018 for a tabletop exercise in disaster planning. They had no idea they’d be putting those plans into action the very next day, when they’d be facing the most destructive blaze in California history. Now it’s more dealing with it psychologically than physically,” Bryan says.

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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

JULY 13, 2021

The district prioritized students who were English language learners, students with disabilities, students with a history of chronic absenteeism and students who were struggling in coursework before the pandemic. There were disappointments in other years, too.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Some might think that the height of his medical career was when he gave draftee Elvis Presley his physical and psychological examination, but for Len it was his service as an intern at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Leonard Glick published two books based on his research on Jewish history and Judaism.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

In some cases, colleges and universities are trying to avoid losing enrollment; not surprisingly, students in unstable living environments or who can’t afford food have poorer physical health, symptoms of depression, and psychological stress and are more likely to drop out , research shows.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Solórzano and Lindsay Pérez Huber contextualize these harmful lived experiences through vivid storytelling and rigorous research,⁴ illuminating their lasting physical, psychological and social consequences. Are you asking about my culture, what languages I speak, or what my family history is?” American Psychological Association. ⁷

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They also studied the psychology of trauma, wrote their own trauma narratives and had the opportunity to meet Fidel. In 2018, parents demanded that the school lower its graduation requirements. When asked if students in her support class feel stigmatized, Austin said, “Students ask me all the time how they can get into that class.”.

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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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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. 2018; Marks et al., 2018; Rueckla et al., 2018; Marks et al., 2018; Rueckla et al., Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92(2), 140-160. 2019; McBride-Chang, et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Situated in a homey, single-story gray building nestled between a public housing development and a small, city-run park, Mainspring has a long history of attending to children who have experienced poverty and trauma. We need psychological support, we need help with our kids. She hopes that families will receive more ongoing help.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Taos High students work together to untie a “human knot” during an icebreaker led by seniors during the school’s 2018 EQ Retreat. Taos High students made tools like this one to help them identify how they were feeling at different times during an emotional three-day retreat in October 2018. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018, for the first time in district history, a majority of Sioux City’s 14,976 students, about 52 percent, were people of color. As of 2018, more than 10 percent of the city’s residents were born in another country, according to the U.S. The country as a whole passed that benchmark in 2014.) Census Bureau.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

Related: OPINION: Election 2018’s winners include campus activism, diversity — and polarization. They took in a slide presentation on the history of the death penalty (the Code of Hammurabi, views of the Founding Fathers). And somebody has these other values and they are just as important to them.’ ”. Then came verbal guidelines.

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