The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school. And the truth is, I do now, although that wasn’t always the case.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

We’re more focused on money,” said Adon, 17, a senior at a public high school here. Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor, University Park Campus School. Stopping education after high school not only limits men’s options; it threatens to further widen socioeconomic and political divides, Brooms said.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. 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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Nationwide, there is just one school psychologist for every 1,127 K-12 students, a ratio well below the 500 students to one psychologist recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists Bennett, the son of a school psychologist, said he feels drawn to the mental health field. But it kept pulling me back.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it. historians teaching them in their fancy high schools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

I absolutely hated math in high school. It didn’t apply to anything I needed at the moment,” said Azmane, 20, who failed several semesters of math early in high school but last year got a B in the Linn-Benton course. “We At the level of individual schools, lack of money and time constrain the spread of applied math.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ava had always felt comfortable at the small, private K-8 school she attended just north of Boston. But in high school everything changed. Ava first began to experience anxiety and depression after her parents divorced, when she was still in grade school. Eli stopped going to school. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. The pandemic’s disproportionate toll on Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities, amid daily reminders of ongoing racial injustice, added fuel to this fire.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

. — Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study. North Star is part of the Uncommon Schools network, which has elementary, middle and high schools in Newark.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Researchers have consistently found that some high-achieving high school students – the ones with straight A’s and SAT scores above 1200 – don’t bother to apply to top colleges despite the likelihood of admission and a free ride. To address this, the university staged an experiment in 2019 involving 1,800 high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Psychology students studying behavior change helped the campus dining hall adopt a practice of offering half, full and double portions to cut down on food waste. Physics students designed solar thermal boxes to boost renewable biogas production on an organic farm owned by the college. You can notice a water bottle floating in a river.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

The results are mixed: promising for preschool, not so promising for older students in high school. In the October, 2017, preschool study , published in Frontiers in Psychology, six researchers looked at two Montessori schools in Hartford, Connecticut.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

“The thing is,” given its high price and questions about its value, “college might be a scam,” said Gates, an 18-year-old senior at Bogan Computer Technical High School on Chicago’s South Side. He’s considering going to a trade school instead. Donje Gates, a senior at Bogan Computer Technical High School in Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

PE is so important, because our kids are sitting from 8 to 3,” said Michelle Huff, a high school PE teacher in New Jersey. In a majority of districts, students are spending some or all of their school days online. Instructors say it’s tough to teach and assess motor skills, like catching and kicking, online.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

The educational environment got more difficult physically, emotionally, mentally and psychologically,” said Mark Klaisner, the president of the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools. In high school, another aide helped her prepare for the ACT. NAPERVILLE, Ill. People were feeling trauma.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Black students are less likely to apply and be admitted to the state’s top tier schools. Black Virginians were more likely to have grown up in poor neighborhoods and attended elementary, middle and high schools with other poor students, less experienced teachers and fewer resources.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer from water scarcity for at least a month each year.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I wasn’t particularly mathy before then, but after that, math and I had a no-contact policy that would only reverse late in my college career when I became interested in economics and statistics. But a case of “senioritis” caused her to drop out of high school calculus. Meanwhile, poor performance feeds the developing anxiety.

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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. Very few have succeeded.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

Diaz is part of the first crop of high school students in a new pilot program offered by the state of California in partnership with the Child Mind Institute. Called the Youth Mental Health Academy , it gives Los Angeles high schoolers from marginalized backgrounds a chance to explore careers in mental health.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

More of the teenagers graduating from high schools in Appalachia look like Janeth Barrera Cantu, and fewer, like the middle- and upper-class whites from which local colleges and universities including Lenoir-Rhyne have historically drawn their enrollments. Miramontes graduated from high school with a near-perfect 3.93

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

While it identified big shortages in fields such as customer relations and culinary arts, for example, the data also showed that students with associate or bachelor’s degrees in those occupations generally could have earned just as much with only a high school diploma and some work experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. It is impossible not to ask such questions at LA High. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Larry Rosen, psychology professor, is part of a team at Cal State Dominguez Hills using behavioral studies, physiological stress measures and brain scans to investigate how the distraction and anxiety engendered by digital devices can hurt learning. Inevitably, something gets missed. Some differing views.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines competition as “any performance situation structured in such a way that success depends on performing better than others.” In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. That was too hard to bear.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. Additionally, we could make our own sets related to local class topics and presentations using a friendly curation tool like Educlipper. .

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

The Impact of Teacher Control When teachers exert total control over the curriculum, pacing, and behavior in a classroom, they stifle student autonomy—a fundamental psychological need essential for motivation. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report highlights the rapidly changing landscape of the workforce. Moeller, J.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Yet we want our babies to be bilingual and our grade-schoolers to be surrounded by second languages — and one signal of a quality high school is how many languages it offers (and how exotic). But Guo, a double major in psychology and the College of East Asian Studies, wanted to tackle Chinese philosophy in Chinese.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Adult students who seek additional credentials can find it difficult: Paraprofessionals who re-enroll face additional hurdles to completing a degree, particularly if they enroll part time, work more than 35 hours a week, have dependents, or have a GED rather than a high school diploma.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Solórzano and Lindsay Pérez Huber contextualize these harmful lived experiences through vivid storytelling and rigorous research,⁴ illuminating their lasting physical, psychological and social consequences. When Whitney Aragaki, a high school biology and environmental science teacher in Hawaii, hears “What kind of Asian are you?”,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. Brown eventually used Tyrone’s insurance for a second evaluation, outside of the school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

The pandemic has led to a steep increase in child poverty rates, food insecurity rates and unemployment, with Black and Latino families disproportionately experiencing economic hardship. A weight has been lifted off my shoulders.”. She believes the answer is a resounding “yes.”. But these initiatives can be costly to run and expand.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

But instead of offering out-sized athletic scholarships or perks to potential out-of-state students, the university is doubling down on a bid for students who are often ignored — low-income, urban, public high school graduates with mediocre test scores. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it.

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