The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Martin Credé, a social psychologist at Iowa State University, has been particularly outspoken. ” Credé first published his analysis of all the grit studies he could find and laid out the problems in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2017. . Choose as many as you like.

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation

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JULY 13, 2023

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. These traits help explain many aspects of human behavior. Also, see a working paper on regional differences in personality published in 2019 by the geography department at the University of Marburg in Germany.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Many dedicated, brilliant, and diverse trailblazers have illuminated our path and brought their findings to the forefront of humanity. These spacewalks are commemorated on the reverse of the 2019 Sacagawea dollar coin. She found the skull of a giant sloth next to early human tools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. This is the “ human connectome ” and each person’s is unique, like a fingerprint.

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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. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession. History class.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The consequence is that many students are posting considerably lower scores than they otherwise would be if they were paying attention and putting in full effort, according to Wise’s calculations. The field of psychology has developed several theories. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

The psychological literature is muddy with several studies finding no harm to children’s mental health. For example, a 2019 study found that social media use doesn’t harm adolescent well-being. It’s not clear that frequent technology use is harmful.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Black male teachers are often asked to mentor or motivate students, particularly male of students of color, who their white colleagues may have trouble reaching. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: A team of U.K. A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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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. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Tuition and fees rose less than 1 percent from September 2019 to July 2021, a period during which inflation was more than 7 percent. A lot of it has to do with psychology,” said Stuebner. There’s this perverse belief that high price equals higher quality, and it really does surprise me how strong that psychology is,” Stuebner said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. I myself was teaching a class on campus, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” that I am now teaching remotely. In our current stay-at-home period, more than a thousand people have joined the pre-recorded version of this class each week.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

On Friday, January 18, 2019, counselors, teachers and others held a rally during a strike in Los Angeles. Photo by E. Tammy Kim) E. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. This story about a college admissions scandal was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

Testing pressure has subsided since the 2019 federal education law , which removed some of the high-stakes consequences for low test scores. I actually trained in developmental psychology, not in psychometrics, which I decided to do after a few years as a special ed teacher when I was really young. I’m not a critic of testing.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Our humanity matters, but our unique experiences also matter. 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. American Psychological Association. ⁷ What are you?”

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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. You’re also part of this big thing, this human endeavor—that’s kind of cool.” Earning a college degree is a personal goal for Todd, whose wife teaches clinical psychology at the university. What is happening?’”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. The college’s efforts were explained at length in a story published September 2019 in Politico. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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. After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology. Anthropologists like to begin with a story, and here is mine.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “The certificates made students attend school less,” said Robinson, clearly dismayed by what her experiment had wrought. at a March 2019 conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The school plans to halt its expansion when it reaches eighth grade in the 2019-20 school year.). The previous month, Jennifer had found a job working with people diagnosed with severe autism and other disabilities; the position used the certification she’d earned the previous year in human services, which pleased her.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Last year, a similar data breach of the Los Angeles school district led to thousands of students’ psychological records uploaded to the dark web. In 2020, Baltimore County Public Schools was hit with a cyberattack that disrupted the district’s remote learning programs, froze its operations and cost the school system nearly $10 million.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin bemoans “the human carnage that results from teaching mathematics in a way that works only for a minority of students.”. But a growing chorus of voices from within the math community is crying foul. Carnegie Math Pathways and the Charles A.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Of course, there are critics who disagree with an analysis that is focused on measuring completion of four-year degrees. “Free community college is first and foremost about getting them to come to college in the first place.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The law also limits instruction on and discussion of human sexuality and gender identity in schools. 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. The school decided to ban both flags, Ketron said. Some families have sued.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

The opportunity for full-day K should be available for all,” said Harris Cooper, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. The new funding doesn’t kick in until 2019, but many New Hampshire school leaders aren’t waiting until then to offer full-day programs. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Then the nurse pulled out a piece of paper with her notes from the last visit, when she’d watched Jones playing with Jamir. They discussed birth control options and whether Jones could take medication while breastfeeding. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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