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. On the left are the researchers’ categories of thinking scientifically. Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images). Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Three research studies find that the objects detract from learning. 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. Some schools banned them from classrooms well before researchers had the proof.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, one of the assessment companies. The average sixth grader knows more today in 2024 than he or she did in first grade in 2019. One report documented that U.S. One is phonics.

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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

JULY 30, 2021

It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We Researchers plan to survey students again this fall. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

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. In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

A team of eight researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are trying to find the keys to motivation and persistence and they’re beginning in an unlikely place: a toddler’s mouth. But the researchers were actually most interested in what the parents were saying off screen. Cuteness abounded. Pets and siblings intruded. Kids cried.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Although some educators are familiar with this research, most of us are not. A 2019 survey of teachers uncovered some of these gaps. Department of Education, the “most important concrete and applicable principles to emerge from research on learning and memory.” It is time to know and do better. Scientists are trying.

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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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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. Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

researchers collected all the studies they could find on peer interaction, in which children are either discussing or collaborating on an assignment together in small groups of two, three or four students. A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. The Penn State researchers analyzed an existing U.S. Some racked up considerably more hours.

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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. Dahl pointed to research that found that these circuitry brain maps for younger children, ages 8 to 10, are fairly similar. Early Childhood.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, research shows that these content-rich subjects play a vital role in literacy development by building background knowledge, strengthening comprehension, and expanding vocabulary. How Social Studies and Science Strengthen Literacy Research confirms that social studies and science play a crucial role in strengthening literacy skills.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Researchers have consistently found that some high-achieving high school students – the ones with straight A’s and SAT scores above 1200 – don’t bother to apply to top colleges despite the likelihood of admission and a free ride. To address this, the university staged an experiment in 2019 involving 1,800 high school students.

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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. Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Research suggests that black students thrive when they have black teachers. Research shows that teachers stay in the classroom when they feel supported,” Maye said. Davis Dixon, formerly with The Education Trust, was part of a team of researchers that dug deep into why black teachers leave the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Related: OPINION: Our education system is not setting up students for success Research published this month shows that Black students who attended Southern desegregated schools in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s experienced positive lifelong cognitive effects. GDP from 1990 to 2019 would have been $22.9 And data from the U.S.

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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. What does the research say can be done about all the misinformation online?

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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. “In There’s research to back that up. Department of Education.

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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. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. America’s Workforce Dilemma During the 2019-2020 academic year, U.S.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019.

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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. For women in math classes, for example, perceiving a professor to have fixed views of intelligence prompts expectations of being stereotyped and lowers performance in the course, recent research demonstrates.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere. 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

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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. Research shows that counselors who work in schools that serve a high percentage of low-income students have higher caseloads and dedicate less time to college planning and support. Photo by E. Tammy Kim) E.

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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. Credit: Image provided by Kodie Bates Researchers pointed out problems with the discrepancy model even before its use became prevalent in the U.S. The studies came just as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

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. million just since 2019, according to the clearinghouse. Women now make up about 58 percent of U.S. If I can’t read or write at college level, I can’t show that.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One team of researchers has a surprising answer. Free community college, an increasingly popular idea, is much less effective, actually reducing four-year college education rates while low-income Americans reap the smallest benefits, the researchers found. ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. .

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In Virginia, for example, more than 50 percent of all black college students attend just four colleges, according to research by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank. The researchers at the Urban Institute were able to dig back into college application and school records and see students’ SAT scores and high school grades.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has given American schoolchildren a reprieve from this all-consuming spring ritual but it also has wreaked havoc with research studies that rely on test scores to measure whether an intervention is working. Do you think schools are still inflating test scores? I’m not a critic of testing.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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. In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers” Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

The disabilities range from dyslexia and speech impairments to emotional and psychological disorders that include hyperactivity and aggression. The federal government monitors this removal and calculated that in 2019, 22 percent of Black students with disabilities were learning outside of a regular classroom 60 percent or more of the time.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Research shows if children are struggling to read at the end of first grade, they are likely to still be struggling as fourth graders. 40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc.

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