ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. 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.

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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. When Mann created an engineering department, nearly half of all freshmen chose engineering as an elective. Photo: Stuart Miller.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Nearly 62 percent of students at the school are white, and fewer than 20 percent are economically disadvantaged, compared with the district average of nearly 53 percent. What Miller has observed in the first few weeks of the school year is likely taking place in classrooms nationwide, experts say.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

school and university system, I wanted to find out how microaggressions shape the experiences of Asian American K-12 educators. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. Inevitably, something gets missed. Some differing views.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives. First, do your research. Before addressing the issue, build some time for yourself and read up on coronavirus to gain insight, clarity and empathy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In her first semester of college, she asked her psychology professor if she could assist in the professor’s research. In future work, Shah hopes to identify parenting styles that help explain why some students are so driven to learn, which might lead to interventions benefiting economically disadvantaged children.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The proportion of students in kindergarten through 12 th grade nationwide that is Hispanic has increased to 25 percent from 19 percent since 2003, while the black, non-Hispanic population has dropped to 16 percent, and the white, non-Hispanic population, to 50 percent from 59 percent. In 2000, about one in 12 Hickory residents was Hispanic.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2018

In the October, 2017, preschool study , published in Frontiers in Psychology, six researchers looked at two Montessori schools in Hartford, Connecticut. Meanwhile, a September, 2017, study published in Economics of Education Review found that a Montessori education didn’t make a difference for teenagers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

When there’s a lack of social support — whether communal, societal or familial — it can fuel difficulty adhering to healthy behaviors and trigger psychological processes, such as depression, and biological processes, such as increased inflammation and reduced immune functions. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

She knows something about working under pressure: a nationally competitive soccer goalie in her youth, Beilock went on to earn PhDs in both sports science and psychology. To learn more about anxiety’s effects on the brain, The Hechinger Report spoke with one of the authors of the study, cognitive scientist Sian Beilock.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Bilingual PreK-12 teachers. Related: In one country, immigration is seen not as a burden, but as an economic gain. It’s possible that psychological and bureaucratic barriers add to these hurdles: if paraprofessionals don’t see further education and upward mobility as possibilities, they may never make it into those roles.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Engagement and Focus According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics, children ages 8-12 spend three times more on screens than is recommended daily. E., & Lafreniere, K. Economics of Education Review , 68 , 89–103. Frontiers in Psychology , 10. Wammes, J.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2017

It reimagines what requirements are needed to have a chance at a life of economic stability, as a member of the middle class, for individuals and their families. Some have argued that our country’s success throughout the past century was built upon free K-12 education. I’m honored that Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

Of the 405 students at BDEA, who range in age from 16 to 23, almost all are economically disadvantaged. He described alternative schools as being leaders in “marrying the psychological with the educational.”. Related: Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs? They have to have it,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history. Related: Will high school segregation for refugees lead to better integration?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

That’s because Parker offers what may be the nation’s most ambitious and comprehensive take on multiage education in middle and high school, breaking grades 7 to 12 into three divisions, with each division blending two grades together. Sometimes she even has a precocious eighth-grader or two and struggling 11th-graders. The Francis W.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The net of medical and psychological services that support children outside of school is riddled with holes, which makes services within the school system all the more important. The students are predominantly low-income; in the last school year, 81 percent were considered economically disadvantaged, according to state data. “As

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Paul Morgan, an education professor at Pennsylvania State University, said that the economic disadvantage often faced by black and Latino special-needs children has been exacerbated by the way Congress funds special education. Related: Almost all students with disabilities are capable of graduating on time. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2018

Since the oil wells slowed down, the biggest economic engines in this no-stoplight town are the county school district, which serves about 300 kids, and a row of makeshift casinos run out of dilapidated houses lining the highway. To do better than whatever they’re doing now.”. They can’t be afraid of heights, for one.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! This year there may be as few as 19.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

Or when she graduated from Texas A&M with a master’s degree in educational psychology. Teachers with a bachelor’s degree or higher earn more if they work in a school-based public pre-K, for example, than if they work in a federally-funded Head Start center. She loved her job in the school system. They are not being talked about.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Students’ social and economic needs don’t end in the afternoon, and neither should the safety net that public schools provide. A voucher system for after-school care makes sense than for K-12 schools. The federal government could help. With the U.S. Ironically, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2017

million DACA-eligible youth, including those who haven’t enrolled, contribute an estimated $2 billion in state and local taxes, according to a report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. With postsecondary education closely linked to economic mobility, these facts reflect a problem the nation will pay for later.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Hechinger’s Sarah Butrymowicz created a pair of searchable databases to see which colleges and K-12 schools do not have to follow the Biden administration, but the list can change — 1,700 schools were added during the week of the Moms for Liberty summit — so make note of the time stamp.

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