The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. I spoke with Duckworth at length about the academic backlash to her work. “I wish I had gotten everything right.

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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. Culture is shaping it.”. Early Childhood. Kids are wiring their brains to do those things,” Dahl said. “That is the wrong way to think.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.” The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

He advocates tackling the “systemic and cultural barriers” that can create roadblocks for teachers of color. The research was published in the nonprofit’s 2019 report “If You Listen, We Will Stay: Why Teachers of Color Leave and How We can Disrupt the Turnover.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

In the fall of 2019, over 18 million students were enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the U.S. They must focus on creating classroom cultures of growth, and seek to discern what material students have not yet mastered so they can point them toward actionable steps for improvement. million students, a drop of 9.4

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. It's a very simple mechanism — it’s a cultural confirmation bias. …

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents. They will need to provide professional development to existing staff and break down silos between all student-facing functions, developing an “all-hands-on-deck” culture.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

The 2019 incident reminded me of what poet Maya Angelou once said: “When you know better, do better.”. The disparities begin in preschool ; they can have a negative effect on students mentally, psychologically and even physically, and can lead to poor academic performance. Maya Angelou once said: “When you know better, do better.”

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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. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio. Very few have succeeded.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A Disabatino, now a UCSC junior double-majoring in psychology and anthropology and also the first in her low-income family to go to college, said: “I kind of felt like a deer in the headlights.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

million just since 2019, according to the clearinghouse. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. If I can’t read or write at college level, I can’t show that.” Colleges and universities have had a difficult time attracting students of any gender recently.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The conversation that morning in December 2019 followed the lead of the seven or eight most vocal students. There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. They also studied the psychology of trauma, wrote their own trauma narratives and had the opportunity to meet Fidel.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You can’t interview Asians because they won’t say anything substantive due to the norms of their culture,” she said. And what depth of knowledge, background, or experience gives you the authority to speak on what works best culturally for Asians anyway? American Psychological Association. ⁷ Wait, what? Shouldn’t you know that?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. 65 – Percentage of Sci Academy graduates who had started college in 2012 who had dropped out by September 2019. “We

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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. However, there are problems with applying this philosophy in a personal capacity if it’s not supported by and reflective of the whole-school culture.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Now, new studies warn of the pandemic’s potentially “debilitating effects” on children’s psychological, developmental and educational progress as anxiety, depression and loneliness increased over the last year. Even before the pandemic, one in five children in the U.S.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 23, 2024

He led the deep integration of Anthropology’s broad offerings into the Core Curriculum for undergraduates, with different courses fulfilling requirements in social sciences, natural sciences, historical & cultural studies, and the arts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In “sharp contrast to other ages and other cultures,” Tough writes, “mobility in the United States today depends, in large part, on what happens to individuals during a relatively brief period in late adolescence and early adulthood.”. Between 2013 and 2018, the percentage of undergraduates at U.S.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. But the significant degree of variation for most of the characteristics illustrates that the state is far from culturally monolithic. There is also a geographic component to their distribution, research suggests.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

2019; McBride-Chang, et al., Changing models across cultures: Associations of phonological awareness and morphological structure awareness with vocabulary and word recognition in second graders from Beijing, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92(2), 140-160. 2018; Marks et al.,

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. On April 30th, 2019, during the last day of the semester at UNC-Charlotte, students presented their projects in my Science and Technology Studies class.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). ” Among these skills are effective communication, the cultivation of positive relationships, and the display of cultural competence. ” Dr. Novak and I wholeheartedly agree!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

In some instances, medical or educational staff might be racially biased or culturally ignorant. He worries that without more diverse and culturally sensitive staff and communication, “a lot of Black children will continue to slip through the cracks.” She had to push over years for a full psychological evaluation.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The challenge here is that the training program must adapt to the culture. I am forever indebted to her encouragement and "permission" to be a scientist, unbound by a limiting cultural restriction that albums must not be shared. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology , 7 (1), 68-80. Cabrera, I.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Seventy-seven percent of teachers are women, but only 31 percent of district chiefs are, according to an April 2019 report by Chiefs for Change, a bipartisan nonprofit. When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

It’s 100 percent, I think, against what our culture tends to think for kids,” Turner said. “It We need psychological support, we need help with our kids. It takes a big shift, and I think it takes a lot of education around what is trauma.”. She hopes that families will receive more ongoing help. Everybody is traumatized.”.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

” The condition was later discovered to be psychologically generated, and lithium was effective in its treatment. In 2019, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries. Take a look at the ones you recently bought.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Yet another think tank, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, has used the data to conclude that more than a quarter of programs — including most of those in art, music, philosophy religion and psychology — leave students financially worse off than if they’d never enrolled.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars. As a ninth grader, in 2019, she clashed with students who wanted to fly the Confederate flag at school; Meryl and her friends wanted to fly a rainbow flag. Some families have sued.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Now a senior, Cristian is enrolled in four AP classes (Psychology, Biology, Computer Science, and Spanish) and two dual-credit classes with the local college (physics and calculus). They’ve also reevaluated some longstanding policies.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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