TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning contributed by Michael Mirra Abstract Diversity has been at the forefront of educational discussions over the last few years. Segregation is a larger issue in society and it is affecting the endgame of education. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 37(3), 193–199.

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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. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education. Topics around how AI fits into education continued to draw listeners this year, including our interview with Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy, about his groups new AI chatbot tutor.

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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. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

About a dozen years ago, Linn-Benton’s administration looked at their data and found that many students in career and technical education, or CTE, were getting most of the way toward a degree but were stopped by a math course, said the college’s president, Lisa Avery. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. It can be traced back to an ingrained fear of the unknown , a protective psychological response that’s hard-wired into our brains to shield us from potential threats.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

To learn how educators can help students develop intrinsic motivation, we spoke with Dr. Christina Hinton, faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Founder and Executive Director of Research Schools International (RSI) , and Dr. Tom Callahan, Director of the Merck-Horton Center for Teaching and Learning, and educator at St.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

My own school psychology textbooks, including books for the Higher and GCSE courses. There are also a wide range of resources for A-Level Psychology. I’ve been teaching Psychology at secondary school level for almost two decades. This article discusses routes into teaching the subject.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, educators face numerous challenges when designing instruction that promotes deeper learning for all students. Recently, I had the privilege of meeting with a group of international educators in Dubai grappling with these challenges.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Elementary education has traditionally focused on English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, often at the expense of social studies and science. Building Knowledge, Boosting Literacy Recent research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education underscores the significant impact of knowledge-building on enhancing literacy achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Families and communities have all worried about how they will support their children’s education and development while they learn at home. As educators, we have a responsibility to reimagine our habitual mindsets about how to evaluate student progress. Students know and understand much more than we as educators will ever realize.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

How can research help everyone who is working to improve education, including teachers, educational leaders, designers, technologists, and policy makers? In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments,” said Ratliff. “A Meanwhile, new findings in developmental psychology are shedding a fresh light on what motivates middle schoolers.

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ED Surge

JUNE 11, 2024

She was interested in college, but worried that the cost could keep her from pursuing higher education. Her plan after graduation is to apply to the University of Minnesota’s main campus to major in psychology, entering halfway to her bachelor’s degree and thereby cutting out two years of paying for college. How is the program going?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

By incorporating science into literacy instruction, educators can create a more engaging, knowledge-rich classroom experience that benefits all learners. Strategies to Integrate Science and Literacy Instruction Educators can support literacy development by embedding science instruction into reading and writing activities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

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!”) It’s a practice derived from a movement in education known as restorative justice, an approach to discipline that replaces punishment with repairing harm. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class. The kids who had been taught via traditional, explicit instruction switched to reviewing the remaining algebra topics through their errors. And the kids who had been correcting their errors received eight sessions of traditional test prep.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Regardless of where your understanding of gender fluidity lies, what you probably have in common with your fellow educators is that you want all of your students to feel safe, accepted, and loved while they are under your care. Edwards added this piece based on his own experience working with educators. What should I have said?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. It’s time we acknowledge that our education systems are directly contributing to the youth mental health crisis. They can stop teaching to the test and educate parents on why they are doing so.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift “All the way into October they can fish in the pond with a net,” said Monie Corona, an environmental education resource teacher for the district. What’s also becoming well-known is the essential role of traditional and Indigenous ecological knowledge in the effort to cope with the climate crisis.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. Toyosi will receive a $1,000 scholarship to support her studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she plans to further her education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It can knock students off the traditional developmental path and leave them without crucial social and emotional skills, says Anne Marie Albano, a clinical psychologist with experience in school avoidance. For beleaguered educators, it’s yet another hat they’re being asked to wear. Long term, it can leave students unprepared for life.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Higher Education. A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Tenenbaum’s advice isn’t to get rid of traditional instruction but to use peer discussions to reinforce a lecture. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. As a United Way director of education, I used statistical methods, such as linear regression, to make investment and funding decisions. Related: Racial gaps in math have grown. Could detracking help?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Educators have long debated the best way to teach, especially the subjects of science and math. Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Recent advances in neuroscience are revealing what Montessori educators have known for over a century - that learning is deeply connected to emotion, relationships, and the integration of mind and body. The implications for education are profound. New York, NY: Psychology Press. Review of Research in Education,47 (1), 1-45.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Eventually she declared a major in psychology and a minor in art. The sobering reality is that some commit to the massive investment in a higher education without actually knowing what they want to learn. Department of Education says , and one in 10 switches majors two or more times. But the U.S. The average student takes 4.4

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2011, a panel of mathematicians and math educators mapped college-prep sequences in high school math and proposed pathways that led not only to calculus but also to statistics, linear algebra and data analysis. Those interested in social sciences, communications and psychology pursue data science or statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Where are we going to find an additional year to make up for these kiddos before they leave the education system?” These companies may have a business motive in sounding an alarm to sell more of their products, but the reports are produced by well-regarded education statisticians. How am I going to factor?

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Grafting ethnography onto journalism has been suggested for decades—it’s time to put it into practice.

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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

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 ? “At and Antonio M.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. The trend is catching on with policymakers and educators as they look for ways to spur college-going while also ameliorating high tuition prices.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As schools return to in-person learning, educators face the challenge of addressing the diverse emotional needs of students who have experienced unprecedented disruptions. A study conducted by the American Psychological Association found that post-COVID mental-health-related incidents in children and adolescents were on the rise.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

It’s not all the teacher’s responsibility to change student behavior,” said Dorottya Demszky, an assistant professor in education data science at Stanford University and lead author of the study. “I Demszky is working on developing a talk meter app that can be used in traditional classrooms to encourage more student participation.

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