The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion. So Holstein, along with two colleagues, set up an unusual middle school experiment in the Pittsburgh area. Student psychology appears to be at play.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

A study of 2,500 middle school students finds that the acquisition of scientific reasoning skills produces stronger learning gains. Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images). Higher Education. Schunn, published October 2019 in the journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. Eli’s mom, Alice Stuart, contacted the school in January 2020 to launch the process to formally evaluate her child for dyslexia and dyscalculia, a math disability. It just makes me so crazy.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

I assumed that I would eventually learn how the brain worked because I thought that studying education meant studying how learning happens. If you are a mid-career educator like me, perhaps this sounds familiar. Although some educators are familiar with this research, most of us are not. I was wrong. What about math?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

We weren’t surprised,” said Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Georgia, and one of the authors of the study , which encompassed 458 children. The program operates in partnership with public schools, private child care centers and other organizations. Subscribe today!

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ED Surge

JUNE 11, 2024

Paul, Minnesota, a teacher showed her a flier saying that a program at the school could save her $25,000 on college. “I She was interested in college, but worried that the cost could keep her from pursuing higher education. And how do students feel about these options at a time of growing skepticism about higher education?

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University.

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 31, 2020

Teaching effectiveness vs. teaching evaluations (The Learning Scientists) For most of us who teach in higher education, the end of the semester means administering teaching evaluations and can be a bit stressful for some. However, the beginning of each semester means reading those evaluations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

One widely used program called CHAMPS was recently tested in a study involving more than 100 teachers and almost 1,500 middle-school students in a randomized controlled trial — the kind of gold-standard experiment that is common in medicine but not in education. The experiment took place in two St.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2015

Each year, students at Owsley County Schools miss nearly a month of school because of snow and ice. The time away from class takes a real toll on student learning, says Jason Hall, an elementary school teacher in the rural Kentucky district. ” Not anymore, though. . ” Not anymore, though.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

Higher Education. ” Rapid guessing happens less in math than in reading, but boys increase their rapid guessing in the middle school years. For teachers and schools, rapid guessing makes it harder to know what students are really learning in school. The field of psychology has developed several theories.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Mentor is now part of the faculty at the university’s Teachers College, where one of her research areas is education equity. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination. Middle school is awful.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. The Hechinger Report is an independent news organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University, but has no relationship with the middle school or the researchers involved in the study. )

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But schools are stretched thin for mental health staff, with as many as 100,000 more mental health professionals needed around the country. A school district in Virginia even constructed a middle school building with extra glass in the hopes that more natural light will serve as a palliative.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

For a moment, I picture myself in an alternate universe and think, today is the day the chamber choir is performing as part of the Mayor’s address — or the ukulele donation is getting delivered to the elementary school , or the guest artist-in-residence is arriving at the middle school rock band classroom.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But educators may not have the capacity to address their students’ many needs, especially in high schools where teachers spend less time with more students, and where adolescents may be less receptive to adult guidance. Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

It’s a dilemma facing a growing number of schools and districts that have jumped onto a new tech-fueled trend in education known as “personalized learning.”. education reform since the 1990s. At the same time, the new federal education law passed in 2015 has removed some of No Child Left Behind’s teeth.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But most schools lack funding or capacity for adequate counseling services for students and staff. “In 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. Arnett, a public school in Westlake.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. Higher Education. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

And plenty of schools and colleges are wondering: Will this new realm work for education? Mayer ranks as the most productive educational psychologist in the world by the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology, and he has a highly cited theory of multimedia learning.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. Growing up, once we left school at the end of the day, it was over.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Pandemic stresses created financial problems for many higher education institutions, as they were already bracing for enrollment declines due to the coming demographic cliff. Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared. By June, many U.S. Not this year.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2015

Angela Duckworth, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching 7th grade math in New York City public schools when she quickly noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students. Individuals with a growth mindset believe intelligence and talent can be developed through hard work and dedication.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

Kendall Cotton Bronk, associate professor of psychology, Claremont Graduate University. Research and scholarship on “purpose” has gained momentum in recent years, converging from developmental psychology, moral philosophy, positive psychology and other directions. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 Adrian Huerta, assistant professor of education, University of Southern California. “In It’s a national crisis,” said Luis Ponjuan, an associate professor of higher education administration at Texas A&M University. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

Nick Schiner (Infant and Pre-K Parent): I think it is important to level set that, just because I am an educator, I don’t feel like I have all (or any!) It never feels like enough and I want other parents and educators to know that feeling is normal and means we’re doing the best we can! of the answers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Students participate in a restorative circle, a practice that’s part of a movement away from harsh discipline in schools. Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) Higher Education.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

In our Future Teachers series , we ask these questions to aspiring educators on the cusp of entering the classroom. I worked in an elementary school as part of my education minor at the University of California, Berkeley, during my junior year, and I think that had a great impact on me. That would’ve been in college for you.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. How can educators transform their approach and teach math in a way that effectively addresses learner variability ? and Antonio M.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Education researchers have been studying ways to prevent behavior problems from erupting in the first place, much like the field of preventive medicine aims to help people live healthier lives to minimize incidence of heart disease, cancer and diabetes. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. It’s not bullet proof,” said Gehlbach.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Over the next eight years, until they leave the district for high school, they will cycle through learning about 54 different careers, including real estate agent, paralegal, dietitian, reporter, graphic designer, sociologist, urban and regional planner and financial analyst. Higher Education. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

These motivational posters in a New York City middle school are a small example of how growth-mindset theory has swept through schools. “Many researchers in psychology use old benchmarks that are for laboratory studies that are carefully controlled,” Dweck said. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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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. Traditionally, educators and psychologists in the U.S. American educators, perhaps influenced by Skinner, have tended to see things the same way.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

This 2017 photo of a New York City middle school shows growth mindset messages on student-made posters. Growth mindset theory, the idea that intelligence is malleable and can grow, has taken the education world by storm in the past decade as a way of motivating students academically. Educators are hungry for fixes.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

class of the school year, actually their last P.E. class as a middle school student, Esme had pursued Eduardo across campus with a set of classroom scissors, sharp end out. teacher to allow—quickly descended into a breach of each and every tenet of our school’s Core Values. Perhaps it has never been enough.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

At first glance this strength-based approach seems like the educational equivalent of kitsch, a bit fringe and hardly necessary. Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Certainly it’s not yet in widespread use.

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