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To Serve Bilingual Students, This Future Teacher Will Draw on Her Own Experience

ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. There was a shift in culture and in school. I [want to help students] overcome language barriers and cultural barriers.

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Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change

ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. This requires not only technological acumen but also psychological insight and emotional resilience.

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Jobless college students are being given summer jobs to mentor younger peers

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

Several programs aimed at keeping incoming freshmen on track for college and others that provide tutoring to elementary students are scooping up jobless undergraduates as mentors in relationships that benefit everyone. So he applied to the Tennessee Tutoring Corps. I had no second option lined up,” Oates said.

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio.

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When kids pick their ‘trusted adult,’ it pays off

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

I tell our students, it’s like tutoring,” she says. “If If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.” I tell our students, it’s like tutoring. If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.”

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The latest group to get special attention from college admissions offices: men

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. Montclair has tried a range of methods to attract male students from cities such as Newark and Camden — everything from counseling and tutoring to providing toiletries and food.

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Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2. Peer teaching strategies give students the opportunity to learn from one another and contribute to a culture of collaboration. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345–375. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning. – Feb.,

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Students spend the rest of their time at resource centers receiving in-person instruction or tutoring. Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. Most do the majority of their work online, though some choose to learn with a standard textbook.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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 We don’t have that culture of studying for [the SAT]. It makes us really angry to see people getting all the opportunities in the world just because they’re rich.”

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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It doesn’t follow from that that more choice is always better,” said Barry Schwartz, professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College and the author of “The Paradox of Choice,” about the psychological ramifications of a supermarket culture that offers 175 kinds of salad dressings and 275 breakfast cereals.

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OPINION: Time to stop weeding out first- and second-year STEM students and ending careers before they begin

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Faculty should want to change the culture of their required courses; they should want to work in the best departments with bleeding-edge science — and undergraduate students are vital to this goal. Making this change will maintain a culture of excellence while giving all students an alternate pathway to success.

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Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Being in Africa and seeing the things that you have embraced as your culture in this place that you know far preceded it was powerful.”. Uwahnie Martinez (left), the owner of Palmento Grove Cultural Center in Belize, helps Frederick A.

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Experts offer black and Latino college students 8 tips for success, from studying together to becoming a tutor

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

To see yourself as the helper rather than the help is really psychologically important for kids.”. Whenever the opportunity arises, sign up to be a tutor. Treisman says that being a tutor has an enormous psychological benefit for black and Latino students. It also helps them learn the material more thoroughly.

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In dark days of coronavirus, acts of generosity can restore students’ faith in higher education and each other

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Meanwhile, cultural institutions are relaxing rules and paywalls to offer much-needed diversion, like free streaming of Broadway musicals and plays, operas, online art programs and free downloads of books from public libraries. Related: Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools. Just about everyone she knows has gone home.

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Special education’s hidden racial gap

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Since making that decision, Burns has changed course and is now pursuing a high school equivalency degree, with tutoring help from the Durham Literacy Center. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. She picked working at a McDonald’s.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She tutored other kids from public housing. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. while she puzzled over psychology homework in the one hour she had to spare. Most still read at an elementary school level. I struggled with that.

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Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Even with plentiful low-skill jobs and with some immigrants running small businesses or finding better paid jobs as translators or tutors, poverty is still a reality among recent arrivals. Both of the elder Valladolids are from Mexico.

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Jobless college students are being given summer jobs to mentor younger peers

A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

When kids pick their ‘trusted adult,’ it pays off

The latest group to get special attention from college admissions offices: men

Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

OPINION: Time to stop weeding out first- and second-year STEM students and ending careers before they begin

Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

Experts offer black and Latino college students 8 tips for success, from studying together to becoming a tutor

In dark days of coronavirus, acts of generosity can restore students’ faith in higher education and each other

Special education’s hidden racial gap

Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school

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