The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

There’s also a psychological critique of rewards, with many arguing that they undermine a child’s ability to develop his or her internal motivation to do the right thing. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance.

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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. An independent guide from the advocacy organization Third Way about how to use the federal government’s financial responsibility scores. Jon: But Davis says there’s more to this than pretty buildings.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

Therefore, by providing relevant psychological services to address these difficulties, an intervention agent shows sensitivity to the needs of the entire family. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the application of principles derived from the psychology of learning in order to teach skills and manage problem behavior. Turnbull, A.P.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

In 2007, the city of New Orleans and the Orleans Parish School Board were sued for unconstitutional conditions of confinement and other violations; the case was brought by the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (JJPL), a nonprofit advocacy group working on behalf of at-risk youth and incarcerated juveniles.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Just because of the psychology of targets.” Results from 2016 show that two of its four K-8 charters had some scores in the 70s in either English or math and one of the others was a few points shy of 70 percent proficiency. Some said, ‘We need to say 100 percent even if we can’t make it,’” he said. Those projections were not far off.

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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

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. student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education.

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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. Devanhi, 12, recently finished sixth grade at Jackson Middle School in the Guilford County district.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

I ask kindergarten teachers in impoverished neighborhoods how many of their children have had real, developmental pre-K for a couple of years beforehand (the kind that wealthy or middle class kids get). Could we take the billions of dollars that are going to testing companies and put it into rich, developmental pre-K? Fred Rogers (Mr.

Education 91

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

Grundwag, who has a master’s degree in counseling psychology, says some preschool teachers may do things that can aggravate students’ misbehavior, such as talking about a student’s conduct in front of the child or speaking loudly and shaming students in front of their peers.

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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. REDMOND, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids. Some of this helped.

Education 87

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