The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” The psychological literature is muddy with several studies finding no harm to children’s mental health.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

The starkest example is eighth grade students, who were in fourth grade when the pandemic first erupted in March of 2020. But the pace of learning, or rate of academic growth, has been rocky since 2020, with some students missing many months of instruction. This is a crisis moment with middle schoolers,” said Lewis.

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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 3, 2022

Census data shows that rates of home-schooling doubled between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the fall of that year. Before 2020, Helene Gaddie had never really considered homeschooling. She became fascinated with the idea while studying for her degrees in childhood education, psychology and math education.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Related Research For those interested in further reading, here are some related studies exploring the genetics of human language and vocalization: Dediu & Levinson (2013) – "On the antiquity of language: The reinterpretation of Neanderthal linguistic capabilities" ( Frontiers in Psychology ). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00397

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Failing grades have jumped for middle and high school students nationwide: The state of New Mexico , for example, and the city of Houston, Texas, had more than 40 percent of students fail at least one class from spring 2020 to spring 2021. Kathryn Boucher is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Indianapolis.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

caption here Chart from "Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation," Urban Institute, January 2020. “ Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation ” was written by Erica Blom and Tomas Monarrez at the Urban Institute and published in January 2020. The names of the institutions were not disclosed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Yet, nationwide, there was just one school psychologist for every 1,127 K-12 students in 2020-21, a ratio well below the 500 students to one psychologist recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists. The shortages of school social workers and counselors are just as bad. But it kept pulling me back.”

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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 According to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A spring 2020 survey found that only 3 percent of teachers felt that administrators were addressing their social and emotional needs during remote learning. One place to start is by expanding educators’ access to affordable therapy, coaching and other resources that foster well-being.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marraccini, an associate professor of school psychology at UNC’s School of Education Now, as the rate of young people experiencing mental health distress climbs, with in-patient mental health hospitalizations rising by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022 according to one measure, the need for school support programs has grown.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., After a week of contemplation, I found myself wondering why we can’t do both.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

27, 2020 seminar on adolescent learning and well-being in Berkeley, California. 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. ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. Overall, students didn’t benefit academically, psychologically or socially from the practice.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Contemporary Educational Psychology , 54, 125-138. Learning in the 21st Century: How the American Public, Parents, and Teachers View K-12 Teaching and Learning in the Pandemic. Digital Promise: Washington, D.C. Giovanelli, A., M., & Dahl, R. Leveraging technology to improve health in adolescence: A developmental science perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

An expert I consulted on this topic, Kate Zinsser, associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, explained: “Learning, especially for very young children, cannot happen in a vacuum and is grounded in social interactions. While 2020 has pushed many of us to our limits, we parents should not abandon hope.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In 2009 , California passed a law requiring that all college textbooks be available in electronic form by 2020; in 2011 , Florida lawmakers passed legislation requiring public schools to convert their textbooks to digital versions. Alexander , Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland and Lauren M. Patricia A.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

Will the 2020 coronavirus pandemic change that? Sure, classes convey information about molecular biology or World War II, macroeconomics or social psychology, but the lessons are amplified and become resonant as students talk about them in the cafeteria, before sports events, in the library or in the dormitory lounge.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

26, 2024, in the peer-reviewed journal Developmental Psychology, now provides stronger causal evidence that building background knowledge can translate into higher reading achievement for low-income children. When schools shut down in the spring of 2020, the researchers scrapped the planned social studies units for second graders.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

It’s designed for neurodivergent students or those who want to work in fields such as social work, special education or psychology. In 2020, an estimated 1 in 36 eight-year-olds had an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. San Diego State University offers a class focused on cognitive and social differences.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. Instead, we need to be setting clear expectations of what behaviors we do want to be seeing.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

More recently, in 2020, the University of Texas at Austin’s Charles A. Those interested in social sciences, communications and psychology pursue data science or statistics. In 2012, the panel issued a joint statement asserting that calculus should not be the “ultimate goal of the K-12 mathematics curriculum.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

In the spring of 2020, Chelsea Kelley’s second grader received live instruction from his teacher just once a week for 45 minutes. Tanya Lieberman, pictured in May 2020, had to figure out how to hold public hearings on proposed legislation during a pandemic. Credit: Tanya Lieberman. Others had something in between.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

What we wanted to be able to do is teach educators the psychology of stress, the biology of stress and evidenced-based strategies to manage stress, for themselves and for their kids,” he said. Diane Bennett and her son sit in front Moffat House at Misericordia University in Dallas, PA on September 27, 2020. – SARAH BUTRYMOWICZ.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

That is $3,792 in 2020 dollars. A June 2020 study by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows enrollments at regional public universities across six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin — have fallen by over 10 percent since 2011. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

About 200 of these students were admitted and 150 students, roughly a quarter of them, subsequently enrolled in 2020. Almost two thirds, or 63 percent of the 600 students who received this envelope, applied to the University of Michigan. People are more willing to try something when they know the final cost ahead of time.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

The quality of a teacher’s relationship with their students has the most significant impact on their emotional engagement at work (Hagenauer, Hascher & Volet, 2015; Tucker 2020). When student behaviors distract from the learning or jeopardize the safe psychological space in the classroom, it is emotionally draining for educators.

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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. Morgan was nervous.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to a new Healthy Minds paper , 60 percent of college students reported symptoms of one or more mental health problems in 2020-21. A new report from the American College Health Association found that three-fourths of students said they were experiencing moderate or severe psychological distress.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Our school was at the start of this process in early 2020 and when COVID-19 hit, our newly adopted Core Values had not yet been formally introduced to the school community. In essence, each student who entered my classroom in the fall of 2021 was not the same one who left in March of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Reyna Smith, a doctoral candidate at the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky, was working in a college counseling center in 2020 when George Floyd was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer. Reyna Smith, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky.

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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.” Less discussed is the connection between water insecurity and violence against women.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The effects of such practices can reverberate throughout a student’s life, according to the American Psychological Association, leading to worse mental health and lower grades. “We Is there a policy making them feel like they have to issue referrals, she offers, or are there particular school settings that lead to it?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

At Dickinson College, in Pennsylvania, a net-zero campus since 2020, students in statistics classes have run data analyses to assess why certain buildings are less efficient than others. Related: One state mandates teaching climate change in almost all subjects – even PE But there’s change happening on some campuses, she and others noted.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2023

More than a decade after earning his bachelor’s degree in psychology, Davenport is a student once again, pursuing his license to become a high school special education teacher. I still didn't really know what I wanted to do, but psychology definitely grabbed my attention. I started there in October 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Finally, in early 2020, Busby found a provider in Amherst, less than an hour away, who would accept payment only modestly above the state rate. In late September 2020, the Amherst center still had not resumed bringing in patients. In March, a doctor followed up by observing the boy at school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, makes the case that one of the biggest education trends — critical thinking — isn’t taught properly in schools. Happy New Year and I’ll be back again on Jan. Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends.

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