The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In Rockville Centre, tracked classes also led to racial and economic segregation in a high school where a fifth of the nearly 1,100 students are Black or Latino and the rest of the student body is nearly entirely white. 77 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged. 1 predictor of college success.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

The discrepancy stems from systemic factors like economic inequality, as well as cultural ones. A recent national survey conducted by the American Psychological Association found that more than 85 percent of psychologists are white. Families may believe that therapy is ‘a white people thing,’” Cherestal says.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

The result is a classroom where students are passive recipients rather than active agents in the learning process. 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.

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