ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

We dont afford that kind of support to educators who, frankly, spend all of their time with tiny germ factories who are constantly getting themselves and everybody else sick, Hogan says. Its physically, emotionally and psychologically demanding work, and we provide no respite, from a system or policy level, for this, she adds.

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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

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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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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

JUNE 1, 2022

Just one day would be enough to show the folks in Congress how difficult and important the work is, says Hirsch-Pasek, a psychology professor at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “I She wants all 535 of them to spend a day taking the lead in an early childhood classroom.

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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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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

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

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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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

MARCH 1, 2024

Disability stigma is a persistent problem on college campuses, which can lead to discrimination, a hostile learning environment and psychological stress. So, why aren’t these students seeking the accommodations that they need? The most common reason is stigma.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Gil , late professor of social policy at the Florence Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University, argued that individuals can only reach their full potential when human needs such as psychological safety are met.

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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

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. This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history.

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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

MAY 7, 2024

Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. Then, as I added my education and child development minors, [my classes] sparked my interest in going into teaching. I’ve wanted to go into the teaching profession ever since then. That would’ve been in college for you.

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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. Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Related: Teletherapy has been powering virtual special education for years Once clinicians learned how to work online, many embraced teletherapy, finding that it brought focus to their time with children and offered exciting new ways to engage in their sessions. A significant number of U.S.

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