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. We now have a real chance to disrupt traditional grading practices in schools, districts and even higher education.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

A February 2024 study published in Developmental Psychology provides strong causal evidence that building scientific background knowledge translates into higher reading achievement , particularly for low-income students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments,” said Ratliff. “A Meanwhile, new findings in developmental psychology are shedding a fresh light on what motivates middle schoolers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. Disabatino, now a UCSC junior double-majoring in psychology and anthropology and also the first in her low-income family to go to college, said: “I kind of felt like a deer in the headlights.”.

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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!”) Restorative justice, meanwhile, with its emphasis on community, empathy and perspective-taking, may make up for some of the shortcomings of traditional disciplinary action.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

This year marked the first time that applicants were required to submit video essays on their favorite history lessons, as opposed to traditional essays. She also shared insights from her Law and Public Policy class, where she engaged in mock trials and debates, and from her Psychology class, where she created a memorable baby book project.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

As mental health professionals and co-authors of a book about the pressure and stress facing high school students, we’ve spent our entire careers supporting students’ mental health. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be an either/or scenario: We can design school systems that help students thrive academically and psychologically.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Calls for book banning and censorship have become common. Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded. The Siddiquis.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Marvin Dunn, a former professor of psychology at Florida International University and a specialist in the state’s Black history, told the Daily Beast on Thursday that the latest African American studies ban “means an insult to me, it means an injury to me.” Books from a pilot African American studies course now banned in Florida by Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. Educators have long debated the best way to teach, especially the subjects of science and math.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A study conducted by the American Psychological Association found that post-COVID mental-health-related incidents in children and adolescents were on the rise. Research shows that the pandemic has heightened feelings of anxiety, loneliness and uncertainty among young learners , making social-emotional learning (SEL) more critical than ever.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Eventually she declared a major in psychology and a minor in art. One of those measures of effectiveness is your four-year graduation rate,” said Kevin Hearn, vice president of enrollment management at Chestnut Hill, which costs about $58,000 a year in tuition, fees, room, board, books and other expenses.

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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 Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2019

Related: Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books. To manage my family stress and my anxiety, which according to the American Psychological Association impacts 61 percent of college students, I sought counseling.

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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. Callahan promotes autonomy by structuring his high school psychology course around the interests of his students. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Vansteenkiste, M., Sheldon, K. M., & Deci, E.

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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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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By the last decades of the nineteenth century, there were several examples of a new kind of ethnographic book in which the hypothetical pronouncements of armchair theorists were tested against the author's own observations. Roughly the ethnographic approaches can be divided into the following traditions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

became the lead plaintiff in a California lawsuit alleging that IQ tests discriminated against Black students and were too often used to label them “educable mentally retarded” and remove them from traditional classes. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P., Lester and the other plaintiffs won their case.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. In Phoenix Union, hiring teachers without a traditional education degree isn’t brand new. In Phoenix Union, diversity is paramount, starting with the hiring process, said Gestson. We don’t have to be theoretical about what we’re doing. Not anymore.”.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced. 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

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The director of professional development formed faculty book clubs to discuss Claude Steele’s “ Whistling Vivaldi ,” a book about “stereotype threat,” which is a psychological theory about how minorities perform worse in environments where people like them traditionally don’t succeed.

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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 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. There’s nothing to say they read fewer books or cover less content.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

MARCH 10, 2023

There have been significant shifts in thinking in recent years towards a more feedback driven model rather than most teachers’ traditional conceptions of what marking looks like. I’m coming at this from a Psychology perspective, and I’m thinking mostly about extended responses or essays.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical. Advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on arbitrary birthdate ranges is illogical. Related: High school should be more like preschool.

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Jonathan Firth

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Although I obviously can’t share anything relating to our current applicants, I thought it would be interesting to reflect on what I look for in a teacher, and what you might need to think about if you are (or someone you know is) thinking of entering psychology teaching in the future. How can I get into psychology teaching?

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2023

Yet how we devised the traditional education system, they can’t be accepted the way they are. She took classes on campus and planned to major in psychology, but she didn’t really know what she wanted to do with her life. And, Austin adds, “They have big goals for themselves, just as much as on-campus students do.” “Yet

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Now, several years later, after pursuing a degree in psychology and taking courses in child development, Foster is more educated about Montessori education and realizes little about the “Montessori garden” actually adhered to Montessori practice. There are no noisy electronic toys or books featuring fantastical ideas like talking animals.

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The Effortful Educator

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I guess, intuitively, I believed that attention contagion was a real presence in the traditional classroom, but that it exists in the online world is a bit of a surprise. One inattentive student isnt simply one inattentive student, both in the traditional classroom and in the online classroom. McLean, D. Forrin, N. MacLeod, C.

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Jonathan Firth

JUNE 7, 2019

However, from the late 1960s onwards, researchers such as Gordon Bower and Allan Paivio began to promote its use as a study strategy, and explore the psychology behind it. Allan Paivio's book with Mark Sadoski on how DCT applies to reading and writing. Educational Psychology Review, 3 (3), 149-210. References Baddeley, A.

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Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

Focusing on the example of homework, a traditional view might be that the teacher should allocate whatever they judge to be useful, or whatever is just ‘the way it’s done’ (or whatever is lying around the office, is quick to mark, or is in the textbook/revision guide!). or their individual gut feeling about what ought to work.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A bubble machine and a table lined with cookies and coloring books welcomed families coming for a midsummer meet-and-greet at Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child Learning, a new charter school in the Carrollton neighborhood. ” Even so, the New Orleans school system still differs substantially from a traditional district.

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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

MAY 2, 2024

he said, noting that fields like literature, anthropology and psychology also grapple with issues of race, gender and sexuality. Gavin, who wrote a book on white nationalism and politics in higher education, said it is critical for leaders in states not facing anti-DEI laws to speak up for those who cannot. What’s next?”

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