The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Research on the physical, psychological and academic benefits of outdoor learning for kids is well-established, and is now informing the development of climate education. Her watchwords are “cultural humility, cultural relevance and the cultural landscape.” Here in Albuquerque there’s different cultures.

Heritage 126

Heritage Tradition Cultures Public School 126

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. After a week of contemplation, I found myself wondering why we can’t do both.

Leadership 124

Leadership Psychology Public School Humanities 124

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. Vermeulen (2022) show that there was serious ethnographic fieldwork being carried out by scholars before Malinowski.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Cultures Tradition Psychology 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

While 43 percent of Black male students dropped out between the fall of 2021 and the spring of 2022, President David Sanders said, 93 percent of the few dozen men in the mentoring program stuck around. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. This has helped.

Museum 131

Museum Tutoring High School Psychology 131

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The teacher shortage has dashed the dreams of students, parents and educators who hoped the 2022-2023 school year would bring about a return to how things were before the pandemic. For schools and districts, high turnover is not only problematic for school culture, it is also a significant drain on time, resources and money.

Psychology 115

Psychology Teaching Research Education Policy 115

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Isolating people in solitary confinement often enables other (unsanctioned but nonetheless ubiquitous) abusive practices, including many forms of physical, psychological, and sexual violence. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations. prisons and jails.

Anthropology 104

Anthropology Civics Humanities Advocacy 104

Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

His new book, “Surrounding Fort Knox, Including Southern Indiana,” showcases Van Stockum’s journey through the counties around Southern Indiana and Fort Knox and details the area’s rich natural and cultural history. Van Stockum also has a children’s series called the Little Girl Series, inspired by Van Stockum’s own grandchildren.

History 52

History Anthropology Cultures Psychology 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s when racial and cultural differences between educators and students can come into play. Teachers are no more biased than other people, but also no less biased,” said Russell Skiba, a professor in the school psychology program at Indiana University and director of its Equity Project. Bias also plays a role.

Psychology 122

Psychology High School Cultures Public School 122

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Nearly three-quarters of young Americans say the country as a whole is experiencing one, according to a spring 2022 survey by Harvard Youth Poll. It’s one thing to have it baked into the pie and another thing to make it a deliverable and a piece of the curriculum as compared to an endemic part of school culture,” he says.

Social Justice 135

Social Justice K-12 High School Psychology 135

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You can’t interview Asians because they won’t say anything substantive due to the norms of their culture,” she said. And what depth of knowledge, background, or experience gives you the authority to speak on what works best culturally for Asians anyway? I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D.

Education 110

Education K-12 Psychology Cultures 110

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The story dominated headlines for more than a year, cost New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez his job and opened a new chapter in the culture wars. Fast forward to 2022. “Heather Has Two Mommies” has once again become a lightning rod in culture wars: Credit: Candlewick Press/Penguin Random House.

Library 119

Library Social Justice History Psychology 119

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Whether my own kids are “good at school” or not, how do I make sure that the culture of academic pressure and urgency in school doesn’t negatively impact their self-worth? What psychological and spiritual damage would this cause? It's May 24, 2022. Many students are harmed by this urgency—I was harmed by this urgency.

Elementary School 98

Elementary School Psychology Classroom Management Humanities 98

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

” Among these skills are effective communication, the cultivation of positive relationships, and the display of cultural competence. Research has established that there are positive psychological and physiological benefits when we write about our life experiences and our feelings (Smyth, 1998). Shanahan, T.

K-12 103

K-12 Psychology Social Science Social Studies 103

Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma. For example, of all British Armed Forces recruits in the 2021/2022 intake, 23% enlisted as minors compared to 6% and 3% in the United States and France respectively. ” Some professions are more dangerous than others.

Political Science 63

Political Science Psychology Government Cultures 63

Maitri Learning

APRIL 29, 2023

The answer is a resounding YES! In some ways, children are most certainly different today than they were even five years ago because we humans are biologically programmed to adapt to our culture: our time, place, and group. To figure this out, we have to look at what has happened in our culture in recent years. 2022 for a review).

Humanities 52

Humanities Psychology Cultures 52

Maitri Learning

APRIL 29, 2023

The answer is a resounding YES! In some ways, children are most certainly different today than they were even five years ago because we humans are biologically programmed to adapt to our culture: our time, place, and group. To figure this out, we have to look at what has happened in our culture in recent years. 2022 for a review).

Humanities 52

Humanities Psychology Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Being in Africa and seeing the things that you have embraced as your culture in this place that you know far preceded it was powerful.”. Uwahnie Martinez (left), the owner of Palmento Grove Cultural Center in Belize, helps Frederick A.

Charter School 106

Charter School High School Cultures Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yet even with teachers, new and veteran, so rattled by pandemic teaching and concurrent culture wars, districts may not be adapting. Using the virtual classroom , teachers in training can work through situations that might be difficult, but in a psychologically safe environment. With roughly 1,200 U.S.

Teaching 95

Teaching Elementary School Middle School Lesson Plan 95

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

He failed to make it onto the Republican ballot in March 2022, then decided to run for district attorney in Tarrant County as a “Faithful, Conservative Fighter,” but lost. He gathered librarians in January 2022 and told them that students didn’t need access to books about sexuality or transgender people.

Library 135

Library Heritage K-12 High School 135

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 16, 2025

Recently, on my podcast Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed this topic in detail after revisiting a blog post I wrote in 2022. Dispirited people can lead to decreased efficiency, increased turnover, and a toxic work culture. can open communication channels and foster a sense of psychological safety. Koestner, R., &

Psychology 299

Psychology Professional Development Cultures Teaching 299

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In fall 2022, after two teachers finally signed on, the group received permission to start the club on campus. Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars. Much of that happened because of one parent, Rachelle Ketron. Some families have sued.

Library 143

Library Advocacy High School Psychology 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Weight bias is part of American culture, said Rebecca Puhl,deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health at the University of Connecticut, who has studied childhood obesity and bias. She plans to study psychology. “I Teachers are not immune to those attitudes,” she said. I just want to help people.”

Elementary School 136

Elementary School Tutoring Psychology Research 136

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

It was a beautiful day in October 2022, and the leaves were turning vibrant shades of red and yellow. This framework, which stems from disciplines such as psychiatry and psychology, positions people experiencing suicidality as patients or objects of intervention, reducing them to passive recipients of care.

Psychology 52

Psychology Anthropology Social Justice Economics 52

ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

Now, a dozen students from six families are suing the department for sidelining books, curriculum and cultural awareness events that conflict with the presidents goal of excising gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion from public life. The book won the 2022 International Literacy Association Award for Young Adult Fiction.

Government 82

Government K-12 Library Psychology 82

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

Humanities 145

Humanities Oral History Archiving Pedagogy 145