The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

A photo from a 2018 report shows a teacher using Lumilo smart glasses, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in an experiment. It’s been difficult for the research community to prove that all of this student data actually improves teaching and helps students learn more. Student psychology appears to be at play.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time. But research from the last 30 years shows that young children are far more capable in engaging in reasoning that we once thought.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Two meta-analyses on growth mindset were published online in the fall of 2022 in the journal Psychological Bulletin and arrived at opposite conclusions about one of the most popular ideas in education. How could two such studies come out within just three weeks of each other in Psychological Bulletin and arrive at opposite conclusions?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research. Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends. Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Research has found that a focus on social-emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom helps promote these relationships, and builds well-being and academic success. There is a ton of research, but very few tools that enable [personalized learning] to come to life. Contemporary Educational Psychology , 54, 125-138. Halberstadt, A.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In the years after the shooting, he and a team of researchers interviewed men who were incarcerated in the Texas Huntsville Prison for homicide. The parallelism between their play deficiencies, and the objective problems in forming trusting social bonds with others seems very significant,” concluded Brown in a 2018 article.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Dahl describes himself as a developmental scientist, practicing in a field that combines many subjects such as neuroscience, psychology and medicine. Dahl pointed to research that found that these circuitry brain maps for younger children, ages 8 to 10, are fairly similar. Early Childhood.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, research shows that these content-rich subjects play a vital role in literacy development by building background knowledge, strengthening comprehension, and expanding vocabulary. How Social Studies and Science Strengthen Literacy Research confirms that social studies and science play a crucial role in strengthening literacy skills.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Three research studies find that the objects detract from learning. 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. So 2017, right?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

All students, including white students, benefit from having teachers of color, according to a summary of the research by the Learning Policy Institute. And students of color do better academically and are more likely to graduate and go to college if some of their teachers look like them, research shows. Results so far are varied.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But while working with schools and colleges across the globe as we conducted research for our book , we realized that most interventions don’t address systemic issues causing mental health problems in the first place. Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

“As educators, we often focus on communicating what we don’t want our students to be doing in class, but we have found that just doesn’t work,” said Keith Herman, a professor in the University of Missouri College of Education who was one of the researchers in the study, in a press release.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

This drawing of the brain shows where researchers detected greater brain activity for children who engaged in more conversation at home. Figure 5 of Beyond the 30-Million-Word Gap: Children’s Conversational Exposure Is Associated With Language-Related Brain Function, Psychological Science February 2018.

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2023

The faculty had a hypothesis: If students who enroll in college online could learn under real lab conditions, then they could develop into strong scientists, ready to do advanced research and pursue careers in, say, biotechnology or medicine. In 2018, back when Austin had just earned her Ph.D. It didn’t feel rigorous,” she says. “I

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. And the growth is steep — up 10 percent compared to last year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That push is evident at Brookdale.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2019

The academic pressures to perform well in the classroom, publish and join a promising research lab — combined with the strains of additional financial, familial and racial stressors — are a formula for a mental collapse. However, the researchers only surveyed students who had advanced to the candidacy stage of their programs.

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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 11, 2018

A team of researchers found “small” academic benefits from programs to persuade students that intelligence can grow. Two Case Western professors joined Sisk, along with two other researchers, and what they found three years later were mixed results. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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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. Credit: Image provided by Kodie Bates Researchers pointed out problems with the discrepancy model even before its use became prevalent in the U.S. The studies came just as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Belcastro’s decision not to suspend the boys was based on research that consistently shows suspending students makes it more difficult for them to succeed academically and more likely they will enter the criminal justice system as adults. Over time, it erodes children’s sense of safety.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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. In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers” Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Research on the physical, psychological and academic benefits of outdoor learning for kids is well-established, and is now informing the development of climate education. She said her focus and that of her colleagues sharpened in 2018, after a state court’s decision in Yazzie/Martinez v.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

Emotional engagement encompasses a teachers’ feelings about, degree of dedication to, and emotional response to their work (Perera, Vosicka, Granziera & McIlveen, 2018; Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). What factors cause teachers to feel fulfilled by this work? Relationships require maintenance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Research shows mental health treatment is more effective when it’s in line with the client’s culture and when clients perceive their therapist to be culturally competent. Moran started as Holy Cross’s first LGBTQIA+ coordinator in 2018. Reyna Smith, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A new research study questions whether these students are a particular disciplinary problem for schools. That’s a term researchers use to describe how kids who are frequently suspended become prime candidates for dropping out of school entirely. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I The heightened inclusiveness seen since she took over in 2018 is not some caricature of femininity, all chitchat and smiles, she said. According to research , she’s right.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

The researchers didn’t actually study how people use Google or any internet search engine. Other researchers couldn’t replicate the Google effect when they repeated similar memory experiments. In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

It may seem frivolous to spend so much money on a school dedicated to a grade level that students aren’t even required to attend in most states , but research shows kindergarten can be one of the most important years in a child’s educational career. Research shows play is a proven way for students to learn academic and nonacademic skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Nationwide, high schools offering credit recovery used online courses 71 percent of the time, according to a 2018 U.S. Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. Department of Education brief. Related: Students sat in cubicles using computers.

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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. When children enjoy school, they want to come to school. School can become an anxiety-inducing situation.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 17, 2024

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies and Middle East Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018 with a high academic distinction, and received her Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Chicago in 2021, where she received the Social Sciences Scholarship of full tuition.

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 27, 2020

We continue our exploration of the field of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology, the American Psychological Association’s Division 14. I-O Psychology is the study of behavior in the workplace. in I-O Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. Louis Tay received his Ph.D.

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Jonathan Firth

MARCH 14, 2019

Cognitive psychology has shown that in order to use your study time effectively, you should pay more attention to what you do during your study sessions. For example, several research studies (e.g. Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

Widely reported research has shown surprising levels of hunger and homelessness among American college and university students. Harden moved into a Southern Scholarship Foundation house next to the campus, with 28 women, in the spring of 2018. I’ve been doing awesome ever since,” said Gorder. “I

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

In 2018, she joined me on the podcast to clear up some of the confusions and misapplications of leveled texts. Since Jen considers herself a practitioner who has steeped herself in the research, but not a researcher per se , she wanted to be joined by someone whose background and expertise complements hers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Between 2013 and 2018, the percentage of undergraduates at U.S. percent , according to a 2019 study co-authored by Jean Twenge , a psychology professor at San Diego State University. His kitchen-sink approach dramatically increases the school’s graduation rate in short order, from 51 percent in 2012 to 70 percent in 2018.

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