The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

That’s why both educators and researchers who study child development say the school shutdowns resulting from the coronavirus pandemic may be particularly disruptive for middle schoolers. When kids transition from elementary to middle school, sometimes their grades drop because of all the changes they experience, researchers say.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

“No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. Credit: Chloe Pressley. Related: As we talk about reopening schools, are the teachers okay?

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For educators like Aion and Bowyer, the expectation that public education would “return to normal” is one of the factors that pushed them out of the profession. And research has shown that when teachers leave, many schools have a difficult time attracting new ones, and instead hire less experienced or less prepared teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

Because those scores were then used to evaluate educators and decide which schools to shut down, testing has changed how math and reading are taught in classrooms and reduced or even eliminated topics that aren’t tested — from civics and science to art and music. I’m not a critic of testing. I’m a critic of the misuse of testing.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers,” said Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College who researches the mental health impacts of natural disasters on children. In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers” Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy at New America. Such precipitous college closures expose weaknesses in the oversight of higher education’s finances, which experts say is inadequate and scattershot. Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy, New America.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

But such programs also carry risks, according to the study, which calls for further research to be conducted to assess how well peer-support efforts actually work and to determine best practices for running them. After all, the report notes, when students experience distress, they usually talk about it first with each other.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2017

By age six, girls are less likely than boys to view their own gender as brilliant and express interest in activities described as for “really, really smart” children, according to new research published in Science. The beliefs of children matter because they could shape students’ interests and achievement over time, other research suggests.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

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. Kaylan Connally is a policy analyst in the Education Policy Program at New America.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Nicole Buff got a bachelor’s degree in criminology and psychology at Indiana State University just as the last recession started. All three previously earned bachelor’s degrees and now are training to become firefighters. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Faculty were responsible for scholarship and research, and that’s all.”. billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. Faculty were responsible for scholarship and research, and that’s all.” Students who leave cost colleges $16.5

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The result: “The survival of small, liberal arts colleges is predicated on widening outreach to the Hispanic population,” said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at Excelencia in Education , a Washington, D.C.-based based research organization focusing on Hispanics. Photo: Jesse Pratt. Photo: Jesse Pratt.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

While SUNY’s and national enrollments appear to be stabilizing as of this past spring, researchers expect this to be a return to the pre-pandemic trend rather than a turnaround. These declines, paralleled by declines across the country, steepened particularly at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

“The move to standards-based education with testing on grade level has made multiage classrooms really challenging,” says Diane Friedlaender of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education at Stanford University. Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

I think it’s more psychological than physical. University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations. Foundations such as Gates and Lumina are bigger, more influential, more strategic, and directly involved in shaping federal and state education policy (K-16).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. Also, there’s a psychological factor. “They’re trying to develop in students and teachers and principals the need to have data to make better decisions.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

“There is a consumer protection strand of American history, and now it’s higher education’s turn,” said Daniel Greenstein, director of education and postsecondary success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been pressing for better information to be made available to students and their families. Launch My Career.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

My area of research is Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement,” he said. he said, noting that fields like literature, anthropology and psychology also grapple with issues of race, gender and sexuality. This, despite the fact that high-quality research shows the value of “belonging” to student success. What’s next?”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Kids were busting into Zoom meetings across the country at that point in the pandemic, but for Kelley, whose job is to help design California’s statewide education policy, and her female colleagues, the situation held special resonance. “We According to research , she’s right. Hers is a distinctly powerful position.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One team of researchers has a surprising answer. Free community college, an increasingly popular idea, is much less effective, actually reducing four-year college education rates while low-income Americans reap the smallest benefits, the researchers found. ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. .

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit. GLSEN researchers say there may be two somewhat contradictory forces at work. Few adults in Meryl’s schools took action to stop it, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Black males exhibit risk-taking behaviors more frequently than their female peers according to findings in the Journal of Black Psychology and Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. Related: Don’t ever conflate disaster recovery with education reform. The isolation is not without consequence.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Our free early childhood education newsletter tracks the issues. As a young psychology professor at Yale, Zigler was hired as an advisor to President Lyndon Johnson to help design family programs for the federal War on Poverty. But I will say this: We have great research. based think tank New America. We have great data.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

percent in March 2016, for new arts, law and public policy graduates it was 8.5 percent, according to Carnevale and fellow Georgetown researcher Ban Cheah. That information just isn’t available at most schools, said Mamie Voight, director of policy research at the Institute for Higher Education Policy in Washington.

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