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. A German study published in January 2019 found that both fidget spinners and doodling impaired memory. Photo: Meryl Schenker for The Hechinger Report. So 2017, right?

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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

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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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These spacewalks are commemorated on the reverse of the 2019 Sacagawea dollar coin. Addressing the psychological and spiritual aspects of healing was important as well. Elliott-High Eagle, Oral History, interviewed by David Zierler Oct. During the mission, Herrington performed three spacewalks, totaling 19 hours and 55 minutes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

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. “It While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5

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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. They also studied the psychology of trauma, wrote their own trauma narratives and had the opportunity to meet Fidel. This story also appeared in NBC News. Amy Stuart Wells, professor at Teachers College.

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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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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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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. 2019; McBride-Chang, et al., Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92(2), 140-160. But, this isn't just about reading literacy, it's also about social cognition and connection. Kovelman, I.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

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. Now it’s more dealing with it psychologically than physically.”.

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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. It was a 180 turn.”. I just think we’re in for a big storm for a while.”

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history. Earning a college degree is a personal goal for Todd, whose wife teaches clinical psychology at the university.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

“There is an increasing number of students who want to get their credential and enter the world of work really quickly,” said Brian Reed, associate vice provost at the University of Montana, which lets students earn bachelor’s degrees in three years in majors including psychology, marketing, accounting, finance and management and entrepreneurship.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

psychology class. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. 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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The school plans to halt its expansion when it reaches eighth grade in the 2019-20 school year.). I have never in my history of taking care of kids had to write out a 10-day notice.” Recently, all but one of the school’s upper floors gave way to classrooms as Haven has added middle-school grades. When I say numb, I was blank.

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Strange Maps

APRIL 8, 2024

DEED ) The legend in the map’s lower left corner gives an example of how versatile this system is: Books on the history of a state will be found on the shelves under the Classification Number shown on the Map. Thus, the History number for Illinois 977.3 Thus, the History number for Illinois 977.3 becomes 917.73 becomes 917.73

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

If you’re reading this and you teach math, history, science, foreign language, art, or any other subject, I want to make a compelling case for the powerful impact that writing can have in your class and on your students. We want every student to reap the benefits of becoming effective writers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When immigration agents raided chicken processing plants in central Mississippi in 2019, they arrested nearly 700 undocumented workers — many of them parents of children enrolled in local schools. history, tapping every resource at his disposal from local police to the National Guard and the military. citizen children.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2023

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. In some cases, that meant removing any information on sexuality or sexual maturation from elementary school health curricula, and also revising health, psychology and certain A.P.

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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. 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).

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