The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report The 24-year-old now runs hurdles for the UC Davis track team while pursuing a double major in psychology and African American studies, and obstacles peppered his path off the track as well. When she was in elementary school, “it seemed like no one cared,” Warren said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

The program hired 600 college tutors to work with three to five elementary school kids apiece — in person, though at a social distance — at local Boys & Girls clubs. College senior Magdala Boco is taking a psychology class this summer at Queens College while she works 30 hours a week as a coach for College Bridge for All.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book. The episode is part two of a narrative series we did on student disengagement.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. That was too hard to bear.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. That includes librarians as well. But so much has changed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The array of DOE options for students with special needs — separate schools, in-classroom aides and therapies — all risk exposing immunocompromised kids to infection. The things they can really use — in-home and remote services — have become flashpoints in pandemic resource battles and culture wars. Credit: Kavitha Rajagopalan.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Most still read at an elementary school level. By her sophomore year, Williams was earning all A’s and B’s, and Sci’s test scores were the best of any open-enrollment high school in the city. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Mindfulness transforms culture at high-needs elementary school (NPR) A struggling elementary school in East Nashville, Tenn., Violence in schools is a national crisis (Psychology Today) Aggression is often triggered by common directives and disciplinary practices.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

“I can tell you, in less than a decade, it has become more diverse and open,” said Tori Albright, who coordinates the world languages program at the Sioux City Community School District, one of the largest employers in town. “No No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Valeria Flores Morales, a sophomore psychology major at the University of Puerto Rico, was admitted to a top-ranked mainland university her family could not afford. “It Perhaps the biggest hurdle for Puerto Rican high school graduates who want to go to college doesn’t have to do with money, however. It’s not a thing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Also, there’s a psychological factor. At Barack and Michelle Obama Academy, an elementary school in southern Atlanta, Principal Robin Christian has hired a staff of teachers who are willing to track data to better understand what works with students. But principals can play a role in setting the right tone.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The diagnoses should have triggered extra supports at school, but Burns said that much-needed help never materialized. While Burns struggled at a Durham, North Carolina, elementary school, she says she began to catch up academically after she transferred to a middle school in nearby Raleigh.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Students and parents are less likely to miss time from school and work, and a lot of families say it’s less stigmatizing,” says Sharon Hoover, co-director of the National Center for School Mental Health and professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rather than allowing students to learn concepts at their own pace, schools are pressured by high-stakes testing to teach very specific standards by very specific deadlines. Still, our school system’s over-reliance on punishment and obedience makes me worry about the impact on my kids. There was a school shooting in Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high schools. There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It seems that many considered the people who worked in public schools prior to the storm as collateral damage for the grand New Orleans experiment (another worn-out phrase). Even in death people have value; history and culture remains. Communities protect the names of schools like they would a relative. As Florida L.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2023

This week marks one year since an unspeakable act of violence was carried out in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. One year since a gunman stole the lives of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary. Children at Robb Elementary were of course most acutely affected by the shooting in Uvalde.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The story dominated headlines for more than a year, cost New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez his job and opened a new chapter in the culture wars. “Heather Has Two Mommies” has once again become a lightning rod in culture wars: Credit: Candlewick Press/Penguin Random House. Fast forward to 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Mercado had wanted to be a teacher ever since she’d spent time in high school working with preschool kids. Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. Students were learning about photosynthesis and the parts of a plant near the end of the school year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Now, new studies warn of the pandemic’s potentially “debilitating effects” on children’s psychological, developmental and educational progress as anxiety, depression and loneliness increased over the last year. Even before the pandemic, one in five children in the U.S. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2017

He was by the entrance of the bathroom at Carson Elementary School in Cincinnati. but there are two things they have in common: They are black, and they spend most of their day in school. When your school becomes a source of pain, there are few places to find psychological relief. The streets are mean enough.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Being Tasered by a school resource officer can also traumatize a child psychologically. Indeed, the Obama administration funded a program to hire up to 1,000 school resource officers and counselors a year after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. It’s a natural instinct to want to protect children.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

But in a whirl of confusion, it was marked as both pro-Franco and anti-Franco — and also as “communist, anarchist, manic-depressive, and schizoid,” according to an analysis of children’s book censorship in the Elementary School Journal in 1970. Related: Florida just expanded school vouchers — again. What does that really mean?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars. Nearly 2 in 3 LGBTQ+ youth said that learning about potential legislation banning discussions of LGBTQ+ people in schools negatively affected their mental health. Some families have sued.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Almost every day at the public elementary school she attended in Montgomery County, Maryland, Stephanie heard comments about her weight. Weight bias is part of American culture, said Rebecca Puhl,deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health at the University of Connecticut, who has studied childhood obesity and bias.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Jennifer Merritt’s first-graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency.

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