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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. Now its a cognitive science argument that a core curriculum is also good for our brains and facilitates learning.

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PROOF POINTS: What tooth brushing could teach us about being a good student

The Hechinger Report

She is now an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University. The study, “ Daily fluctuations in young children’s persistence ,” was published online December 2021 in the journal Child Development. We know praise differs by culture,” Leonard said. But this isn’t a causal study. It’s just a correlation.”.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

“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. Social sciences, such as psychology, are also considered part of the liberal arts but not included in the humanities data here. It’s worrisome.”.

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PROOF POINTS: Putting praise to the test

The Hechinger Report

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. However, this pop-culture debate over the downside of praise “rests on the assumption students are bathed in rich rates of praise during school,” Herman told me via email. “In

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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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OPINION: Students are coming to college less prepared during the pandemic. They need our help

The Hechinger Report

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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Bringing Restorative Justice to Schools Must Start With Community

ED Surge

In many schools, including ours, there has been a shift of how student behaviors are regulated—moving away from rules-based standards to ones driven by a set of values determined by the desired climate and culture of each school. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T.