The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension.

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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. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111(3), 502-517. Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Jones, M.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Yet another explanation is a psychological one. The isolation may have stunted psychological development and that ultimately affected motivation, study skills and the ability to delay gratification – all necessary to excel in math. These eighth graders were in sixth grade when the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. During my 2019 run for Congress, my statistical expertise proved invaluable in analyzing trends, guiding campaign messaging and optimizing resource allocation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

A 2019 survey of teachers uncovered some of these gaps. Psychology professor Daniel Willingham and middle school teacher Paul Bruno, working with the organization Deans for Impact, summarized these concepts in a concise 2015 report, “ The Science of Learning.” It is time to know and do better. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Last year’s stress led to record levels of teacher burnout and mental health challenges for students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

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

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 23, 2024

In the 1990s, he was also an adjunct professor for a decade in UMass Boston’s Clinical Psychology PhD program, and from 1992-2003 was Lecturer at the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. For more than a decade, until 2009, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Medical Anthropology.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

GDP from 1990 to 2019 would have been $22.9 Alexandra Filindra is an associate professor of political science and psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago and a Public Voices Fellow through The OpEd Project. A recent Brookings report estimated that if the racial gap in education and employment had been eliminated, the U.S.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. And students clearly wanted help; use of campus counseling rose 23 percent from 2019 to 2020. I needed something to pour my grief into,” said DeJongh. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We Their findings aligned with the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America study : Gen Z adults ages 18 to 23 reported significantly higher stress levels than other generations. Researchers plan to survey students again this fall.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Current Directions in Psychological Science , 27 (5). 2019, September 27). Frontiers in Psychology , 10. 2019, August 22). Social media, texting, and personality: A test of the shallowing hypothesis. Personality and Individual Differences , 115 , 154–158. Backes, B., & Cowan, J. Is the pen mightier than the keyboard?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Social sciences, such as psychology, are also considered part of the liberal arts but not included in the humanities data here. “These humanities fields are down to unprecedented levels,” said Rob Townsend, director of humanities, arts and culture programs at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It’s worrisome.”.

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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

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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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. Also, see a working paper on regional differences in personality published in 2019 by the geography department at the University of Marburg in Germany. Science says yes, and these maps show how. Rentfrow et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

” 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. ” For these outcomes, he explained, other psychological attributes, such as self-control and conscientiousness, out-predict grit.

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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

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

MAY 8, 2023

million just since 2019, according to the clearinghouse. Berea College in Kentucky has 18 percent fewer male students now than in 2019, and the college has started focusing on attracting Appalachian men — and keeping them there. If I can’t read or write at college level, I can’t show that.” Undergraduate enrollment is down by 1.11

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

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. It’s unlikely that a student would suddenly know a lot more the next day and that’s a sign that the first day’s guessing was more psychological than academic.

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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. Kathryn Boucher is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Indianapolis. By this spring, the number had declined by almost 1.4 million students, a drop of 9.4

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. America’s Workforce Dilemma During the 2019-2020 academic year, U.S. postsecondary institutions conferred about 5.1

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

As schools emerged from Covid-19, staff support jobs did not return to what they had been in 2019. The educational environment got more difficult physically, emotionally, mentally and psychologically,” said Mark Klaisner, the president of the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools.

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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

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. “Parents might turn to technologies or screens to manage their children’s outbursts,” he said.

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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. That said, I do think many of the arguments outlined here will apply to many other subject domains, and be relevant for short answer questions too.

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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. Herrington honored his heritage by carrying six eagle feathers, a braid of sweet grass, two arrowheads, and the Chickasaw Nation’s flag into space.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

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.” Dixon, an assistant professor of developmental psychology at Hampton University, said retention efforts like the one in Mississippi ultimately need buy-in from administrators too.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Psychological disorders often show up during the teenage years. A recent study of the psychological consequences of Covid-19 on teenagers in China suggests that both depression and anxiety could be soaring, particularly among girls, high-school seniors and low-income students. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images. Geography mattered too.

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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. So in 2019, Bates began to push for an individualized education program, or IEP, that would delineate specific reading supports for her older son.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. For studies that noted gender, boys and girls equally benefited from working in pairs or groups regardless if they worked together or apart. The study, “ How effective is peer interaction in facilitating learning?

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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. Early Childhood. He says the adolescent learning spurt is second only to the rapid brain development of the first five years of early childhood.

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