Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

Core parts of the mission also include advancing research on disability and developing and promoting curricular materials on disability. Her research and teaching interests include American politics, gender, caregiving, and disability politics and policy. Hirschmann is Geraldine R. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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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. ELW : I’m glad you brought up the need to connect technology with learning sciences research, since we often talk about how Digital Promise works at the intersection of educators, researchers, and developers.

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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. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Research by the nonprofit Gardner Institute and other groups has found that these typically-freshman-year classes tend to prune some kinds of students from academic tracks more than others. Research shows students may drop out or change their major based on these gateway courses.” Organic chemistry , anyone?) history surveys.

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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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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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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma. ” Some professions are more dangerous than others.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

For example, research shows that reports of depression and anxiety increased sevenfold among Asian Americans during the pandemic, according to Stephanie Cherestal, Ph.D., The discrepancy stems from systemic factors like economic inequality, as well as cultural ones.

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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. The studies came just as the U.S.

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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. Research shows that fostering SEL improves students’ academic achievement by an average of 11 percentile points.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere. Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

When students need to read for understanding, comprehension, or retention, research shows that they perform better with print materials rather than a screen. Research shows that paper learning better engages students, improves material retention and comprehension, and helps them move to a ready-to-learn mindset.

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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. A draft was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Some researchers think these small-scale efforts to teach math in context could transform how it’s taught more broadly. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Here are some examples of why, after more than a decade of research into their involvement with slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, a handful of universities are beginning to consider reparations: The first slave recorded in Massachusetts was owned by Harvard’s school master. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Now researchers are testing ways to encourage that curiosity — for example, by encouraging teachers to model inquisitive behavior. In her first semester of college, she asked her psychology professor if she could assist in the professor’s research. She wanted to reconcile that gap and so, threw herself into research.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

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

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

First, do your research. 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. Here are five ways that we can start combating anti-Asian sentiment in schools: .

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2018

As researchers in learning and text comprehension, our recent work has focused on the differences between reading print and digital media. For example, from our review of research done since 1992 , we found that students were able to better comprehend information in print for texts that were more than a page in length. Patricia A.

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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

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

JANUARY 1, 2018

Yet there’s been very little rigorous research to prove that children learn more in Montessori schools than they otherwise would have. Thanks to the expansion of publicly funded Montessori schools, with lotteries and waitlists to get in, researchers are now able to study the matter more rigorously.

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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. I had the pleasure of teaching two sections of a research class through Loyola University Maryland’s Center for Montessori Education. The concepts that shape the approach are rooted in the ideas of Maria Montessori.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

college undergraduates, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, and each year far more women are enrolling in higher education than men. Amanuel Gebru, board president, A2MEND Boys and men in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to focus more on other things than college, said Vaughn Smith Jr.,

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. Accurate information directly impacts who gets what resources — aren’t you an educator and literal expert in communication and research?

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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. He oversees InsideTrack’s strategic engagement and research programs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Tahiv McGee, who graduated from North Star this spring and will attend Pomona College this fall, explains the research study he worked on at Rutgers-Newark. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

In recent years, cognitive scientists have done gobs of research on how making mistakes help us learn, much of it funded by the federal Institute for Education Science. Past research had shown that these signals relate to academic performance. Some findings make intuitive sense. Some are completely surprising. “He classrooms.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In Virginia, for example, more than 50 percent of all black college students attend just four colleges, according to research by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank. Black and Latino students also often encounter more financial hardship in college and drop out for economic reasons.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

And they’re eating more junk food, according to research from Ireland and Italy. If school closures continue through the end of this year, childhood obesity rates will climb by more than 2 percent, according to estimates in a recent study by a researcher at Washington University in St.

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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. The author of “Choke” and “How the Body Knows Its Mind,” Beilock talked about her research on anxiety and stereotype threat, and how she talks about math with her daughter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

“Teachers can do only so much, so paraprofessionals are the bridge for students to receive the individualized services they need,” said Ritu Chopra, executive director of the Paraprofessional Resource and Research Center at the University of Colorado Denver. They become the eyes and ears of the teachers. People were feeling trauma.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Research shows that free college has had some effect, but not as much as you might think. Jack Freer: Yeah, not everyone is born with the same economic opportunities. Sara Goldrick-Rab: For 20 years, my research has suggested that this is a very viable part of the solution, and that’s what I’d call it. Kirk: Yeah.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Research shows if children are struggling to read at the end of first grade, they are likely to still be struggling as fourth graders. Related : What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report. In 2019, 95 percent of Doss’ students passed the state reading assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

million since 1995, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports. Related: If the anger that propelled Trump’s win is economic, can higher education fix it? “We It has gone down, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports , as the number of high school graduates has leveled off. million to 4.8 Related: U.S.

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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. a research analyst for higher education at Ed Trust.

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