The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. I found this book absolutely gutting but it also provides a glimpse of how people can persevere and even thrive in a world that looks very different from the one we’ve known. Sign up here.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

It turns out that doing so will require a major reeducation effort for parents, students and teachers, argues Joshua Eyler, who has led teaching centers at several colleges, in a new book. But some teaching experts say tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College. Her area of expertise is human learning and memory, and applying the science of learning in educational contexts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

“He thought if they made a mistake, the mistake would get entrenched, and you’d have to backtrack to erase it,” explains Janet Metcalfe, a professor of psychology at Columbia University, and the author of an impressive scientific review titled “Learning from Errors,” published earlier this year in Annual Review of Psychology.

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The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Check out this link to see some of my articles and my book that feature this topic. More concretely, if I ask students in my psychology course to describe one theory of motivation, will other theories of motivation also be strengthened in their memory? Perspectives on psychological science, 1(3), 181-210.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Maybe you believe gender fluidity has always been a part of human existence and that those statistics only exist because we are just now getting around to naming and measuring it. Through his trainings, his resources, and now his book, he helps educators learn how to proactively create safe learning environments for LGBTQ+ young people.

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Jonathan Firth

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

What should you read to prime yourself for further study in Psychology? I’m often asked by new or prospective Psychology students (or their parents) if I can recommend some interest-based reading to extend their understanding or prepare for a degree. This book explores the factors behind harmful and abusive behaviour.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

What happened to these children became a subject of study for psychoanalyst Anna Freud, who wrote in a 1943 book that young people who remained with their families through the bombing “were much less upset” than those who were sent away. James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. Kids need peers,” he said.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Like, if someone's talking to me and I'm reading a book, I wouldn't hear them,” says Aylynn, an eighth grader in Pendergast Elementary District in Phoenix, Arizona. Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” The psychological literature is muddy with several studies finding no harm to children’s mental health.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

No matter what, the thoughts need to start with the human user and end with the human user,” she stresses. After all, the goal of any writing instruction, she notes, is to help “two human beings communicate with each other.” Stuff before involved humans and was static.

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The Effortful Educator

AUGUST 5, 2024

Almost 8 years later and almost 1 million blog hits later, I’ve got a book being published. I’ve written for the American Psychological Association several, Education Week, Edutopia, National Education Association, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many more. So, about the book: Do I Have Your Attention?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. EdSurge: Why is there a need for this book on how to reason better? They're so dumb.’

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. One of the most powerful questions they asked is a question about space: “What was the home you grew up in like?”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Scientists have long known that the human brain develops more rapidly between birth and the age of 3 than at any other time in life. Meanwhile, new findings in developmental psychology are shedding a fresh light on what motivates middle schoolers. The Adolescent Brain. It’s one way you figure out your role in it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

Kendall Cotton Bronk, associate professor of psychology, Claremont Graduate University. Research and scholarship on “purpose” has gained momentum in recent years, converging from developmental psychology, moral philosophy, positive psychology and other directions. I’ve been hearing the word ‘humanity’ over and over again.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Too few parents and teachers are talking about race, gender and other identity traits with children often enough, which means they are missing out on critical opportunities to teach children to become tolerant of differences from an early age. Sign up for our Early Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. “As a human, the criticism doesn’t feel good,” Duckworth said. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Susan Wagner Cook, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa, has conducted numerous studies with scenarios like these – both with live teachers and with animated avatars (see video). Susan Wagner Cook, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences, University of Iowa.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

My next class was in the psychology department, on the topic of lifespan development. The class covers how humans change over different points in their lives, and it’s taught by Amy Meeks, a senior lecturer who has been teaching for 20 years. In this class, I mostly saw students following along closely, and taking notes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Grades are too often used as weapons that can create psychological and emotional harm to young people whose experiences, cultural practices and behaviors are incompatible with their schools and educators. He is the author or editor of several books, including “Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There.”

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

In his groundbreaking book, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature (2024), Slimak delves into the depths of Neanderthal life, challenging preconceived notions and offering a fresh perspective on what it means to be human. Slimak asserts. "We

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view. Mendelson 1956): 1.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

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.” I began to wonder if effective inquiry teaching is humanly possible.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) One such translator is Kathy Evans, an associate professor of education at Eastern Mennonite University, co-author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. I myself was teaching a class on campus, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” that I am now teaching remotely. In our current stay-at-home period, more than a thousand people have joined the pre-recorded version of this class each week.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

When puberty hits, the brain reorganizes dramatically, said Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University, who specializes in adolescence. Like I don’t feel that same like human connection,” said Seamus Lynch, an eighthgrader at Lincoln Middle School in Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

The school is one of a number of colleges and universities that are standing out for their humane approaches to the coronavirus. Lauren Wright, a sophomore psychology major at Stevenson University in Maryland, is stuck in her apartment near campus because her mother is ill and can’t risk the exposure. She said she is “forever grateful.”

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. The librarian who presented to her class said that the university will even mail students books—with return postage so they can mail them back. Who’s gonna check out 400 books?” Oh, look, this book over here!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The group connects Muslim home-schoolers in Southern California by hosting events and providing resources, such as books and curriculum. She became fascinated with the idea while studying for her degrees in childhood education, psychology and math education. Home school is attractive because you get to spend more time as a family.”.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

For example, instead of assigning students a specific book to read, teachers can allow students to select from a reading list. Dr. Callahan promotes autonomy by structuring his high school psychology course around the interests of his students. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Intrinsic motivation. L., & Ryan, R.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

One fan is a Harvard doctoral candidate who read Carol Dweck’s best-selling book, “Mindset,” in 2008 when she was teaching low-income teens in New York City. Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. But it might make the other stuff work.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jenifer Fox — who wrote the book “Your Child’s Strengths” and in 2014 helped create The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas, which uses the strengths approach — went further, calling it “the magic bullet.”. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup.

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