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APRIL 26, 2020

“Things will never be the same in higher education!” Those who expected radical disruption in the wake of the Great Recession now seem to believe that it’s the coronavirus that will lead to a massive migration of students away from in-person learning and toward the promised land of tech-infused distance education.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images). In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. Higher Education. Schunn, published October 2019 in the journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology.

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APRIL 1, 2021

We weren’t surprised,” said Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Georgia, and one of the authors of the study , which encompassed 458 children. The state spent about $4,500 per enrolled child in 2019. It’s not about intellect or capacity, it’s just about access. Subscribe today!

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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Critical thinking is all the rage in education. Some argue that critical thinking should be the primary purpose of education and one of the most important skills to have in the 21st century, with advanced machines and algorithms replacing manual and repetitive labor. Higher Education. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

An analysis of Twitter sentiment designed to uncover the state of public mental health tracked similar words and phrases, suggesting rates of anxiety, stress and depression this spring were significantly higher than at the same time in 2019. Psychology research shows that uncertainty itself is often the real driver behind rising anxiety.

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JULY 30, 2021

“Like we’ve been on this really long flight into outer space, sometimes it feels like we’ve just been in another universe,” said Kim Hirabayashi, a professor of clinical education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. Higher Education. A German study published in January 2019 found that both fidget spinners and doodling impaired memory. So 2017, right? Choose from our newsletters.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

Where are we going to find an additional year to make up for these kiddos before they leave the education system?” These companies may have a business motive in sounding an alarm to sell more of their products, but the reports are produced by well-regarded education statisticians. One is phonics. How am I going to factor?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

A May 2022 study of children with disabilities found that Black and white children who posted the same low test scores were equally likely to be removed from a general education classroom and placed in a separate special ed classroom. Department of Education. Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images).

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Jonathan Firth

MARCH 8, 2019

Psychology in the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to What Works came out around this time last year. Co-authored with Marc Smith and aimed at both new and experienced teachers, it’s a guide to how psychology research on areas such as memory, creativity and motivation can be applied to classroom practice.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2023

I assumed that I would eventually learn how the brain worked because I thought that studying education meant studying how learning happens. If you are a mid-career educator like me, perhaps this sounds familiar. Although some educators are familiar with this research, most of us are not. I was wrong.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

The researchers persuaded 81 parents of three-year olds to take cellphone videos of their children brushing their teeth every night for 16 days during 2019 and early 2020. She is now an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University. Cuteness abounded. Pets and siblings intruded. Kids cried. But this isn’t a causal study.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Now, the number of college students graduating with a humanities major has fallen for the eighth straight year to under 200,000 degrees in 2020, according to federal data from t he Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. It’s worrisome.”.

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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. Higher Education. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension. A new study, published online on Feb. Sign up for the Proof Points newsletter.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

We haven’t really known who are the kids at risk for being frequent users of these technologies as they grow up,” said lead researcher Paul Morgan, a professor of education at Penn State. Department of Education database that tracks a large group of students who started kindergarten in 2010. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Higher Education. In a June 2019 report , Wise wrote that rapid guessing was higher for test questions that contain more reading or that are perceived as more taxing. The field of psychology has developed several theories. Another theory focuses on work avoidance, which boys are more prone to admit to on psychological surveys.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. As a United Way director of education, I used statistical methods, such as linear regression, to make investment and funding decisions. Sign up for Hechinger’s weekly newsletter.

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MARCH 25, 2025

Elementary education has traditionally focused on English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, often at the expense of social studies and science. Building Knowledge, Boosting Literacy Recent research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education underscores the significant impact of knowledge-building on enhancing literacy achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Higher Education. A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. This story about peer interaction was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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MARCH 16, 2020

It’s a perfect storm of change,” said Dahl, speaking before education reporters at a Feb. Higher Education. 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. Weekly Update.

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APRIL 11, 2022

To address this, the university staged an experiment in 2019 involving 1,800 high school students. What’s changed between then and the 2019 experiment, according to Dynarski, is that low-income families are becoming more aware that there is a lot of financial aid available and that they won’t have to pay the full sticker price.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

“As a black male on campus, you fill a lot of roles,” he shared during a recent online meetup for male educators of color. Higher Education. The Mississippi Association of Educators, a teachers’ union, launched a weekly virtual meetup for male educators of color one year ago, with an eye toward making this gap smaller.

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JULY 5, 2022

Pandemic stresses created financial problems for many higher education institutions, as they were already bracing for enrollment declines due to the coming demographic cliff. In the fall of 2019, over 18 million students were enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the U.S. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it. Now you’re an adult, you’re by yourself, you’re responsible for your grades.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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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 2017 Brown Center Report on American Education: Race and school suspensions found that Black students lose up to four times more days of instruction to suspensions than their white peers. But when will we finally “do better?”.

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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. Related: How higher education lost its shine Still, it can be a challenge persuading men to seek academic help, said Sanders, who is Black. There’s an expectation for a male.

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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.

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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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MARCH 13, 2019

On Friday, January 18, 2019, counselors, teachers and others held a rally during a strike in Los Angeles. higher education and social mobility. As educators who’ve worked with students for whom this hurts the most, we know this message is not lost on them. Photo by E. Tammy Kim) E. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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JULY 13, 2020

Credit: Jill Anderson/Harvard Graduate School of Education. Perhaps nothing has remade American education so profoundly in my lifetime as the 2001 federal law that required states to assess all students every year. In this country, we treat education data as the private sandbox of superintendents and commissioners.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It’s an unlikely setting for a high-stakes gamble that could help drive dramatic change to a contentious issue: how, and how much, Americans pay to get a higher education. Now some higher education institutions are starting to lower their prices. Related: How higher education lost its shine. But that time appears to be over.”.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He never received extra help or special education services from his Houston-area school district. 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. I compensated for my reading and spelling problems by staying up until 1 or 2 a.m.

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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. In Peru, we work closely with Marleny Bardales Raymundo.

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