The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

He briefly considered a career in law, but settled on psychology after working in an inpatient clinic for children and adolescents after college. He’s worked in several settings since starting his program in clinical and school psychology in 2020, and found interest in them all. But it kept pulling me back.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

In early May 2019, Savannah graduated from Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. College leaders and faculty must continue to help students with disabilities develop the self-advocacy skills and self-determination they need to be successful.

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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. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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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

MARCH 22, 2022

Keygan Miller, advocacy manager at The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, said that a therapist doesn’t have to identify as queer or trans to help a student who does. Reyna Smith, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The process of assessing students for special education can be lengthy and often requires a barrage of assessments including classroom observations, a psychological evaluation and academic tests. Not all districts have complied, said Dustin Rynders, a supervising attorney with the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas. “In

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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. Reforming how the condition is defined and diagnosed could help many more children learn to read. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Groups like the American Psychological Association are very clear that young children, and children in general, experience the psychological impacts of natural disasters significantly worse than adults. There is a coalition of children's rights and children's advocacy groups that has been at COP, led by UNICEF.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

“They don’t have high levels of meaningfulness in their work, which is a terrible outcome for students and their families that spend so much money and time on higher education,” said Belle Liang, a professor of counseling, developmental and educational psychology at BC who helped develop True North.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

punctuated equilibrium, policy diffusion, advocacy theory, multiple streams theory), and policy areas such as but not limited to education, higher education, housing, immigration, and environmental/energy policy. The topics can span the breadth of the fields in both public administration and policy.

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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 Related: Just 3% of scientists and engineers are Black or Latina women. Here’s what teachers are doing about it. I find the process more accessible.

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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.

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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

MARCH 1, 2022

In February, the pre-teen traveled to the Boston area for two days of psychological evaluations, including a thorough reading assessment. Sometimes districts put up hurdles to that effort — whether by accident or intent. In March, a doctor followed up by observing the boy at school.

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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. To Shields, the meaning behind that message was clear: “I care about you.”. Students here understand that your advisor isn’t just there to plug in your classes.

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 27, 2020

We continue our exploration of the field of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology, the American Psychological Association’s Division 14. I-O Psychology is the study of behavior in the workplace. in I-O Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. Louis Tay received his Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. All of this takes a toll on graduation rates. And that, in turn, is why nearly 60 percent take longer than four years to finish , or never do.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide. It makes us really angry to see people getting all the opportunities in the world just because they’re rich.”

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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.

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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

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. The post College Uncovered, Season Two, Episode 6 appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Just because of the psychology of targets.” Spokesman Jonathan Bertsch, director of advocacy for the network, said that after studying other New Orleans schools and demographically similar KIPP schools in other cities, 100 percent seemed realistic, given the assessments and conditions of the time.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Tom Allison, deputy policy and research director at the millennial advocacy group Young Invincibles, is skeptical of this argument. “I And why not, asked Ellen Griffin, who has almost reached the limit of student loans she can take out with a year still left to go before she graduates with a degree in social psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

The program, called the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, is run by a national nonprofit, Active Minds, which advocates for college students mental health. In the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, she encourages students to think about what their communities need and what kinds of support they and their peers might benefit from.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two.

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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

MARCH 22, 2021

Then, just when he had polished off the credits required for a bachelor’s degree in management with a minor in psychology, Toro logged on to his university email account and found an unexpected notification from the bursar’s office. A coalition of advocacy groups in New York is encouraging a measure there like California’s.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws. What’s next?”

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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

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

MARCH 2, 2020

Among other subjects, the students here take courses in sociology, psychology, English composition, science and math — all at the site of the kind of business where the principles they learn in the classroom and from textbooks can be put into practice. Same thing here.”.

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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. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Nick, a sophomore majoring in psychology, was diagnosed as a little boy with autism and attention deficit disorder. Sitting in the psychology department in a gray T-shirt and blue sweatpants, lightly tapping his foot, he says he still struggles sometimes. “I Related: More people with autism are getting training for technology jobs.

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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. Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. The quarantine is also taking a psychological toll, Clough said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

“It is treated as this extra piece that is not a central part of education,” said Amanda Seewald, president-elect of the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies, a legislative advocacy group. Language,” she said, “can make a real difference in how you understand things.”.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

I think it’s more psychological than physical. University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations. .” – our way of subverting the system so they would leave us alone and we could have fun without being bothered. Teachers often are afraid in poor neighborhoods. Fred Rogers (Mr.

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