The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These disparities stem, in part, from the fact that not all colleges, programs and majors are created equal when it comes to driving economic mobility. Thus, increasing access to our nation’s most selective institutions is one important factor in increasing Black students’ economic mobility. The wage gap is significant.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

Her research has appeared in Political Psychology , Health Affairs , Politics, Groups and Identities , and the Journal of Women, Politics and Policy , among others. Lisa Schur is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University, where she teaches employment law and labor studies.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. According to historian Benjamin T.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

He briefly considered a career in law, but settled on psychology after working in an inpatient clinic for children and adolescents after college. He’s worked in several settings since starting his program in clinical and school psychology in 2020, and found interest in them all. But it kept pulling me back.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s a threat to the nation’s global economic competitiveness and national security. The economic ramifications of this in the United States are twofold: first, on individuals’ job prospects and earnings potential; and second, on the country’s productivity and competitiveness. It calculated that had the U.S.

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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

JULY 30, 2021

The long journey of the coronavirus pandemic took students through dimensions of online learning, social isolation, economic anguish, personal loss and mass grief. It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We Researchers plan to survey students again this fall.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The project, funded from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at Educause, prioritizes 20 key gateway courses, including introductory classes in biology, chemistry, English, economics and psychology, as well as math classes like algebra and calculus, and U.S. history surveys.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Social sciences, such as psychology, are also considered part of the liberal arts but not included in the humanities data here. It’s worrisome.”.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Christina Easton, The University of Warwick, “Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment.” Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

The education system needs to consider a grander vision of success that includes economic stability and positive life outcomes. I did not, for those years, experience the psychological warfare that I often see played on African American people in this country, and others around the world. However, it is not happening for the masses.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But we also need to think about, ‘what are the outcomes beyond completion, in terms of economic mobility, first job, employment outcomes?’. We also need to think about, what are the outcomes beyond completion, in terms of economic mobility, first job, employment outcomes?” It’s an ‘and’ solution,” she said.

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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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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

OCTOBER 1, 2022

She worked 40 hours a week on top of school and ended up changing her major, which was originally business management economics. “I Disabatino, now a UCSC junior double-majoring in psychology and anthropology and also the first in her low-income family to go to college, said: “I kind of felt like a deer in the headlights.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2020

The coronavirus makes this even more urgent because students are more vulnerable economically than ever before. But I also know my economic reality is unstable. A psychology and African American studies dual major at LACC, he plans to transfer to the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

For many, attempting to climb the economic ladder means trading one form of economic distress for another. Despite continued resistance by student activists, universities across the nation too often seem unable or unwilling to doggedly police acts of psychological or physical violence against minority students.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Economics of Education Review , 68 , 89–103. Current Directions in Psychological Science , 27 (5). Frontiers in Psychology , 10. Personality and Individual Differences , 115 , 154–158. Backes, B., & Cowan, J. Is the pen mightier than the keyboard? The effect of online testing on measured student achievement. 2021, May 9).

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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

JUNE 29, 2020

Talia Leibovitz is a doctoral candidate in school psychology at U.C. Yet, in programs that enroll mostly white or Asian American children, the odds of attending a high-quality pre-K reach two in five. Bruce Fuller , a professor of education and public policy at U.C. Berkeley , directs research on early education in New York.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Susan Dynarski, an economist who helped design and conduct the experiment at the University of Michigan and is now a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, said the study demonstrates the psychological power of “certainty.” A draft was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March 2022.

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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

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

APRIL 17, 2019

The United States cannot maintain its status as an economic powerhouse if we fail to focus properly on basic skills. Given the nation’s shifting demographics, supporting the needs of students from diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds is important.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There may be economic and environmental reasons to go paperless. Alexander , Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland and Lauren M. Candidate in Educational Psychology, University of Maryland. Something That Can’t Be Measured. But there’s clearly something important that would be lost with print’s demise. Patricia A.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Among the groups trying to change such childhood messages is an American Psychological Association task force aimed at getting teachers and others to better understand boys and their educational needs. “[R]igid The community college is trying to increase its enrollment of men.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

She’s going for a degree that will let her transfer to the University of Oregon to major in psychology; she hopes to eventually work as a school counselor or in some other job supporting kids. Kayla LeMaster, 41, is on her second try at a two-year degree. She had to drop out in 2012 after getting injured in a house fire.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 12, 2015

For the communities that surround PTCC, there is also a socio-economic distance that cycles of poverty put before many potential students, which can cause a psychological distance that keeps people from attempting a college education. ” This is no accident.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has compounded long-standing mental health struggles, exposing more students to the trauma of personal and familial illness, financial hardship, displacement and psychological harm. Related: Anxiety, depression among students have become central issues. But now, we must take them on with a renewed sense of urgency.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

I’ve also got four preps, AP World History, Sociology, Psychology, and IB Theory of Knowledge. Economics and World History are fully structured this way. At the start of this school year, I was still assigning everything digitally. I’ll be honest–I have copy limits, and it was just easier on me.

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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

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

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.” That was too hard to bear. Every quarter, I strived to get one of those trophies just to hear my family cheer.

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