The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

The Hechinger Report: In your two books, Measuring Up (2009) and The Testing Charade (2017) , you explain how testing inevitably led to test score inflation and, instead of improving schools, it harmed children and ruined teaching. If you had an inspection system, you could tell the inspectors that we want to see teaching that engages kids.

Civics 119

Civics Psychology Education Policy Teaching 119

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.

Psychology 103

Psychology Government Education Policy Teaching 103

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

EdSurge connected with educators who decided to leave the classroom this year and with researchers focused on child psychology and student achievement to better understand how turnover impacts teachers and students—and why the retention crisis remains, despite efforts to return to normalcy.

Psychology 117

Psychology Teaching Research Education Policy 117

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs). The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends. Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, makes the case that one of the biggest education trends — critical thinking — isn’t taught properly in schools.

Research 98

Research Education Critical Thinking Psychology 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

When puberty hits, the brain reorganizes dramatically, said Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University, who specializes in adolescence. Related: Why the preteen years are a critical period for brain development. Teachers say they can see the toll social isolation is taking on their students.

Middle School 145

Middle School Psychology Humanities Social Studies 145

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?

High School 145

High School Psychology Inclusive Curriculum Education Policy 145

ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia. The Bandana Project started at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Psychology 117

Psychology Government Education Policy Teaching 117

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

About a month after Governor Malloy sought to recognize paraprofessionals’ work, the state announced its teaching shortage areas. However, their pathways into teaching contain many hurdles. Most teaching jobs require a bachelor’s degree, yet only a quarter of paraprofessionals meet this requirement. First on the list?

Psychology 62

Psychology Economics Education Policy Teaching 62

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. That’s $13.3

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Tradition Psychology Cultures Education Policy 100

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Teachers, particularly those who teach in our most disadvantaged communities, need to be protected. He said, “You’ve had a wonderful education. Teachers are obliged to write on the board the specific skill (and number) that they’re teaching. scripted teaching methods). I think it’s more psychological than physical.

Education 91

Education K-12 Anthropology Advocacy 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Paula Dallacqua, who is in her first year of teaching a combined ninth- and 10th-grade class at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx, says she tried to create specific moments for mentoring but soon found she was forcing the issue. Curtin and Hill will teach one curriculum to this year’s crop of ninth- and 10th-graders.

Elementary School 75

Elementary School Psychology Tradition Professional Development 75

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Rebekah Schoutko, who teaches English as a second language at the high school, said that, if they go to college, most of her students would be the first in their families to do so; for that matter, many would be the first to graduate high school. “I tried to teach him what I know how to do,” said his father, Pepe.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Hall teaches fifth grade and Blaché teaches art, so they share students. Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. Also, there’s a psychological factor. Ron Blaché and Marie Hall were comparing notes.

Public School 85

Public School Middle School Lesson Plan Psychology 85

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

Sociology 130

Sociology Advocacy Government Anthropology 130

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Willie Carver, a former high school teacher and Kentucky’s Teacher of the Year in 2022, left teaching this year because of threats he faced as an openly gay man. In some cases, that meant removing any information on sexuality or sexual maturation from elementary school health curricula, and also revising health, psychology and certain A.P.

Library 143

Library Advocacy High School Psychology 143

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 educational holes we dig for ourselves will become others’ graves.

Psychology 73

Psychology Elementary School Economics Education Policy 73

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. We live in a rural area; it’s out in the middle of nowhere,” she said. “We We don’t have the staff.

Charter School 90

Charter School Sociology Tutoring Psychology 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

When Zigler was a child, his family made its way to a settlement house in Kansas City, Missouri; these community-based charities offered a two-generation approach, caring for and educating children while also teaching English and job skills to parents and connecting families with medical care and housing help.

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Heritage Government Advocacy Psychology 136

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Related: President Elect Trump selects Betsy DeVos as new education secretary, ushering in a new era.

Charter School 112

Charter School Private School Tradition Public School 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia. 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. READ MORE. “As But it should be, she said.

Economics 75

Economics Humanities History Anthropology 75