The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While the term has become the latest buzzword in education circles, what it means for teaching and learning largely remains to be seen. Experts say much of what we see marketed as the metaverse from education technology companies isn’t actually the metaverse. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

What New Research Says About Fostering a Sense of Belonging in Classrooms There are key junctures in education that are especially important for helping students feel they belong in school or college. Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors?

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2019

At least 75 percent of public school parents, teachers, and the American public believe most students are capable of reaching high levels of educational achievement, according to a survey conducted by Langer Research Associates of New York for Digital Promise Global’s Learner Variability Project.

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ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

A study published in Developmental Psychology found that early math skills at kindergarten entry are among the most significant predictors of later academic achievement , even more so than early reading skills.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Leading By Example For Alana Winnick, educational technology director at Pocantico Hills Central School District in Sleepy Hollow, New York, it’s important to make it clear to colleagues when she uses generative AI in a way that is new — and which people may not even realize is possible.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2022

And to help us sort through this emerging space, we invited two guests to the podcast who have seen more of this VR space than most and are thinking through these issues.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

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. And people have that history in their awareness and the fight that their communities have engaged in to be able to access education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A study conducted by the American Psychological Association found that post-COVID mental-health-related incidents in children and adolescents were on the rise. Research shows that the pandemic has heightened feelings of anxiety, loneliness and uncertainty among young learners , making social-emotional learning (SEL) more critical than ever.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

As a Principal, I Thought I Promoted Psychological Safety. In his personal essay, he describes the emotional toll of feeling invisible and why his non-Asian colleagues should start listening for the benefit of their Asian American peers and students. Then a Colleague Spoke Up.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

One of the biggest challenges to making communities that are overall better for youth mental health is the very way the issue is talked about, says Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute and a psychological anthropologist. What Motivates the Adolescent Brain?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Under Pressure There are a number of theories about how math anxiety relates to performance, according to Colleen Ganley, an associate professor of developmental psychology at Florida State University. So what does that mean for students with this anxiety?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

That line of reasoning had long found favor among college leaders as justification for their efforts to promote diversity, as researcher Jordan Starck, who is now an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University, explained previously to EdSurge , rather than a “moral rationale” explicitly concerned with values and principles like “equity, (..)

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ED Surge

APRIL 16, 2024

Those guests are Greg Heiberger, associate dean for academics and student success at South Dakota State University and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Heather Hunter, a psychology major at Wichita State University who has a part-time job in a foster-care agency, said only four high school students in foster care showed up for a workshop to help them fill out that federal form required to qualify for financial aid. We have to fight three times as hard now.”. College enrollments have fallen.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. In navigating the AI transition, we're not just adopting a new set of tools, but reshaping our educational landscape.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs). Content-Based Literacy with Imagine Learning EL Education : Find out more about an instructional approach that focuses on teaching content rather than comprehension skills in isolation.

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ED Surge

JUNE 11, 2024

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.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

According to the American Psychological Association, students from more affluent families are more likely to have access to resources such as devices, internet, dedicated work space and the support necessary to complete their work successfully—and homework can highlight those inequities.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2023

When we're focusing on immediate crisis response, we use concepts from what we call “psychological first aid,” and that's where we really emphasize establishing a sense of safety, predictability and consistency. Educators are not trained to be first responders, yet in these incidents, they're being asked to be first responders.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For the last few decades, educational reform has been coasting on these outdated ideas about human nature, about human psychology and human society,” says Hendrickson. And he spent months writing his review of Egan’s book — a hefty summary that clocks in at more than 23,000 words. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The project, funded from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at Educause, prioritizes 20 key gateway courses, including introductory classes in biology, chemistry, English, economics and psychology, as well as math classes like algebra and calculus, and U.S. history surveys.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2024

Part of why this model would be so powerful is how it would increase the scale at which education research is done, Baraniuk says. There are plenty of studies that have small sample sizes of about 50 college students, he explains, who participate as part of a psychology class. “A

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2024

He’s now a school psychology clinical manager at the staffing agency BlazerWorks, where he works with school districts to help them fill their school psychologist positions.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 6, 2024

It's not that specific reform ideas are fads, argues James Stigler, a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. That focus — the classroom, where abstract ideas about school meet real students — is a common sticking point, according to other observers as well.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

That means psychological evaluations, finding out whether there’s an undiagnosed learning disability that’s making school acutely uncomfortable for the student, and other measures such as exposure therapy, she says. So that just shows you how desperate families are,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What stands out for me is how popular education trends, from social-emotional learning to school discipline, aren’t standing up to scientific scrutiny. The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

My next class was in the psychology department, on the topic of lifespan development. While I was talking to Amy Meeks, the psychology professor, in her office, I noticed a copy of the book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning,” by James Lang.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2023

More than a decade after earning his bachelor’s degree in psychology, Davenport is a student once again, pursuing his license to become a high school special education teacher. I still didn't really know what I wanted to do, but psychology definitely grabbed my attention.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2024

As educators, it is imperative that we acknowledge the challenges this life can bring and our role in supporting military children and families. The Barriers Military Children Face The challenges families experience in military life can be a source of psychological stress, especially for children.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2022

Her discipline is psychology and she invited me to come observe one of her final classes at our university. So for my next few installments, I’m writing letters to people who have exemplified what it means to be an effective teacher. This column, the first in the series, is to my friend and colleague, Elizabeth Powell.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But some groups are now questioning whether the benefits are worth the psychological downsides to students. The research did find benefits of the activities as well, with a significant boost in feelings of solidarity with classmates and civic engagement. And that’s something more parents are asking for as well.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

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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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2022

A few months later, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association testified before a Senate committee that America’s youth mental health system was fundamentally flawed. Youth mental health is at a crisis point. In December 2021, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory on youth mental health.

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