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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

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. And as of 2021 , more than half of the U.S. To further complicate matters, the U.S. birth rate has been declining since the 1970s.

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PROOF POINTS: Two groups of scholars revive the debate over inquiry vs. direct instruction

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. It’s also known as exploration, discovery learning or simply “scientific practices.”

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PROOF POINTS: Why are kids still struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

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. It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. One report documented that U.S.

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

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. It did not.

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

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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Math ends the education careers of thousands of community college students. A few schools are trying something new

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Students in the study who were taught math through an applied approach performed significantly better on two of three standardized tests than those taught math in a more traditional way. She struggled in the traditional algebra class and had to withdraw, and the same happened in a statistics course. Applied math is so fun.”

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Fiske had been previously employed by an independent school in California, while in a doctoral program for education psychology, researching how people learn, she says. McCoy published a survey of classical learning schools in 2021 for Manhattan Institute, which painted it as an “attractive option for parents.”

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Bringing Restorative Justice to Schools Must Start With Community

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

These behaviors we teachers saw at school are only the visible tips of the icebergs of a student’s unique experience—the cultural, emotional, and psychological matter that makes a person. 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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A Surprising Approach to Science Labs for Online Students Boosts Access to STEM Fields

ED Surge

MAY 4, 2023

Yet how we devised the traditional education system, they can’t be accepted the way they are. She took classes on campus and planned to major in psychology, but she didn’t really know what she wanted to do with her life. Nicola Osgood Osgood, for instance, graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University in August 2021.

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Reporter’s Notebook: Even the “father of IQ tests” thought the results weren’t written in stone

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

I learned about Binet, and his ideas about how IQ tests should — and should not — be used in elementary schools while reporting a piece last month for The Hechinger Report and Slate on the debate over cognitive testing in school placement and psychology. In that sense, Binet was an early forerunner in the field of school psychology.

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Students who drop out for mental health struggles are turning to pricey programs to find their way back

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She was sitting in front of a desktop Dell in a converted brownstone in New York City, clicking through lessons in an online psychology class about stress, when she heard the word “resilience” for the first time. It resonated. Lynch had left school just before Christmas in 2011, when she was 22, in the middle of a major depressive episode.

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Attention Contagion in the Virtual Classroom

The Effortful Educator

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I guess, intuitively, I believed that attention contagion was a real presence in the traditional classroom, but that it exists in the online world is a bit of a surprise. One inattentive student isnt simply one inattentive student, both in the traditional classroom and in the online classroom. McLean, D. Forrin, N. MacLeod, C.

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Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

More than half of community college students between the ages of 18 and 22 screened positive for at least one mental health condition, according to a study in the Psychiatric Services journal from 2021 (even before the full effects of the pandemic had settled in ). When he enrolled again at 21, he was in a much better place.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Data from the 2021 Healthy Minds Study shows 34 percent of college respondents struggling with anxiety disorder and 41 percent with depression — rates that have risen in recent years. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report ?. That is changing. Covid is cracking open a conversation that students are desperate to have.

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When kids pick their ‘trusted adult,’ it pays off

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Now, new studies warn of the pandemic’s potentially “debilitating effects” on children’s psychological, developmental and educational progress as anxiety, depression and loneliness increased over the last year. The school year was so atypical, traditional measures such as attendance, behavior and course completion are skewed. “It

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GSA 2023 Keynote Speech: STRIVING FOR MENTAL WELL-BEING IN ACADEMIA

Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A 2021 study by scholars at University College London found that university students are more at risk of anxiety and depression than peers who do not attend. The movement to “decolonize pedagogy” is the process of moving away from representing our disciplines with traditional sources – mostly White men.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools’ mission shifted during the pandemic with healthcare, shelter and adult ed

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report Much attention in the post-pandemic era has been on what students have lost – days of school, psychological health, knowledge and skills. We’ve seen partnering with the YMCA and with health groups for medical services and psychological evaluations.”

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School clubs for gay students move underground after Kentucky’s anti-LGBTQ law goes into effect

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral.

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The magic pebble and a lazy bull: The book ban movement has a long timeline

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

On October 25, 2021, using his power as chair of the Texas House Committee on General Investigating, Krause sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency and to school districts listing some 850 books. What I try to convey is that a library is a place for voluntary inquiry.” Krause’s List It is unclear how the recent book ban fervor started.

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the introduction to this chapter, Wilson makes a poignant link to the Equality Act with regards to nurturing belonging, psychological safety and developing confidence.* For instance, in 2021 for the first time in its 200-year history the UK Census allowed people the option to state their sexual orientation and gender identity.

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Many remain at least partially online this fall and possibly into 2021. The coronavirus pandemic has compounded long-standing mental health struggles, exposing more students to the trauma of personal and familial illness, financial hardship, displacement and psychological harm.

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While learning online, many students received a surprising pandemic respite from cyberbullying

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This downturn started as kids migrated fully online in March 2020, and continued even as many elected to return to school in the winter and spring of 2021. Indeed, a 2020 survey from the American Psychological Association found that 81 percent of teenage students said they have been negatively impacted by school closures.

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

PROOF POINTS: Two groups of scholars revive the debate over inquiry vs. direct instruction

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

Bringing Restorative Justice to Schools Must Start With Community

A Surprising Approach to Science Labs for Online Students Boosts Access to STEM Fields

Reporter’s Notebook: Even the “father of IQ tests” thought the results weren’t written in stone

Students who drop out for mental health struggles are turning to pricey programs to find their way back

Attention Contagion in the Virtual Classroom

Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students

College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

When kids pick their ‘trusted adult,’ it pays off

GSA 2023 Keynote Speech: STRIVING FOR MENTAL WELL-BEING IN ACADEMIA

PROOF POINTS: Schools’ mission shifted during the pandemic with healthcare, shelter and adult ed

School clubs for gay students move underground after Kentucky’s anti-LGBTQ law goes into effect

The magic pebble and a lazy bull: The book ban movement has a long timeline

Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

While learning online, many students received a surprising pandemic respite from cyberbullying

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