The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. But at the new school, Eli struggled with more challenging coursework and shorter deadlines. Eli Clark, high school junior, Austin, Texas. Nearly two months went by.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Eventually she declared a major in psychology and a minor in art. years from all other kinds of institutions, the advocacy group Complete College America says. Now a senior at Chestnut Hill College, Erin Crowley changed her major from psychology to accounting. Photo: Saquan Stimpson for The Hechinger Report.

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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. He had high cognitive scores, but evaluators said he did not show skill gaps in the areas he needed to qualify as dyslexic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2019

Similar to a doctor with a bedside manner that fosters respect and trust when working with patients and their families, teachers can design initial and subsequent interactions with families that demonstrate trust, collaboration and advocacy, giving them a better chance of effectively meeting the needs of students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

Senior year in high school was just, like, ‘You have to decide what you want to do right now.’ ” And picking business “is what everybody else was doing.”. . — Ingrid Dominguez can’t remember why, when she was applying to college, she decided she would major in business. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

When I went to meet with him, he helped me with studying, with finding more resources and with stress management,” said Shields, 23, a psychology major. Speaking of the state’s flagship campus, the University of Georgia, he added, “When I go to visit a school like UGA, which has way more white students, it doesn’t feel the same.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Two Massachusetts parents interviewed for this piece said their school district’s list of “approved” independent evaluators included psychologists who actually weren’t licensed to work in the state. Still, she says, “sometimes the expectations parents have around the progress kids should make in school is too high.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Because of her work at the university’s Student Social Support R&D Lab , which hunts for low-cost solutions in education, she was curious to calculate just how much bang schools are getting for this two-cent solution to reduce absenteeism. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. This is increasingly true among high school graduates less accustomed to forging their own paths, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I Though male staffers with school-age children can be equally attuned to the details of their kids’ educational lives, men in general are not. Here’s what teachers are doing about it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

With 90 percent of New Orleans students now attending schools run by charters, New Orleanians have grown accustomed to hearing enthusiastic spiels from new school operators over the past 10 years. Schools like the Youth Study Center often fall short in serving students. Among those between the ages of 14 and 21, only 6.6

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Just because of the psychology of targets.” Generally, in its post-Katrina applications, KIPP New Orleans, which now has seven charters organized as 11 primary, middle and high schools, projected 75 or 80 percent proficiency for its students. “Some said, ‘We need to say 100 percent even if we can’t make it,’” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2024

Joanna Gonsalves is a professor of psychology, and she says it was a risky strategy from the very start. And what we find is when they go to those other schools, in other states, they tend to form professional and personal relationships that cause them to stay.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

People with college degrees earn about $1 million more over their lifetimes than those with only high school diplomas, and are far more likely to have jobs they enjoy. percent increase in the number of high school students interested in applying. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. You wanna buy a college education?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

And hed struggled to finish high school. He recalls feeling so overwhelmed that he cried on the second day of school. The program, called the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, is run by a national nonprofit, Active Minds, which advocates for college students mental health. He had lost a parent to addiction.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. And another study found that intensive tutoring had major positive impacts on math gains among high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Photo: Amadou Diallo, for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Last year, a similar data breach of the Los Angeles school district led to thousands of students’ psychological records uploaded to the dark web. In 2020, Baltimore County Public Schools was hit with a cyberattack that disrupted the district’s remote learning programs, froze its operations and cost the school system nearly $10 million.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Yet we want our babies to be bilingual and our grade-schoolers to be surrounded by second languages — and one signal of a quality high school is how many languages it offers (and how exotic). But Guo, a double major in psychology and the College of East Asian Studies, wanted to tackle Chinese philosophy in Chinese.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

PITTSBURGH — Monet Spencer remembers traveling to affluent suburban high schools when she was a member of the marching band at Brashear High School in this city’s low-income, high-crime Beechview neighborhood. In suburban public high schools it went from 3.25 to 3.28. “But Then the cycle repeats.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Richard was one of the brightest kids in his high school class. Nick, a sophomore majoring in psychology, was diagnosed as a little boy with autism and attention deficit disorder. Nick, 19, had an A average in high school and is now in the college’s honors program, where he currently has a 3.14 Photo: Rita Obeid.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

But for grandparents raising grandchildren, that’s not possible, said Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. The coronavirus pandemic closed schools and launched a national experiment in remote learning that has been chaotic and stressful for millions of American families.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

She’s been working with this group and 20 other preschool teachers and directors in the area since the beginning of the school year. These suspensions don’t improve behavior and can have far-reaching consequences — children who are suspended in preschool are more likely to drop out of high school and later to be incarcerated.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

Related: Online therapy for babies and toddlers with delays often works well, but the funding isn’t keeping up with the need The growing wave of advocacy aims to combat the disparities in different ways. She had to push over years for a full psychological evaluation. When that finally happened, Sharrieff’s son was already 7 years old.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Ketron’s daughter Meryl Ketron, who was trans and an outspoken member of the LGBTQ+ community in her small town, had talked about wanting to start a Gay-Straight Alliance when she got to high school. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Rather, particularly at the high school level, students in the GNETS Program often receive only computer-based instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Immigrant rights advocates worry that Trump would seek to end a decades-old federal policy that has treated schools as “ sensitive ” or “ protected ” areas where immigration agents are not supposed to surveil families or make arrests, except in extraordinary circumstances, so as not to deter children from going to school.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

“Some of the kids haven’t been hospitalized but they’ve missed a lot of school because they’ve gotten stuck in this avoidance cycle, which is really common for kids who struggle with anxiety and depression.” There’s so much anxiety just by a little trigger like that.”

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