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 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.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Researcher Kathy Hirsch-Pasek has a challenge she would like to see lawmakers in the U.S. 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. Congress take on—call it a dare.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It’s the future, the next big frontier of the internet, if you ask technology CEOs or researchers. While the term has become the latest buzzword in education circles, what it means for teaching and learning largely remains to be seen. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University.

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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. This highlights the necessity of integrating robust numeracy programs into early education frameworks to give students a head start.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Research has found that a focus on social-emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom helps promote these relationships, and builds well-being and academic success. Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged. Contemporary Educational Psychology , 54, 125-138.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

But overall, EdSurge articles that highlighted educators experiences and called for more connection gripped readers all year. Its no easy task, but she lays out several strategies educators can use to ensure the concepts stick. As a Principal, I Thought I Promoted Psychological Safety. Then a Colleague Spoke Up.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

New research suggests one way to consider the question: by looking at how the mix of students in a given course affects their grades. Researchers were able to look through grades for every course taken by students of different personal backgrounds. The study was conducted using administrative data from 20 colleges.

Psychology 141

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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. In the classroom, researchers don’t know much about what works for anxiety, Ganley says.

Psychology 139

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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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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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But while working with schools and colleges across the globe as we conducted research for our book , we realized that most interventions don’t address systemic issues causing mental health problems in the first place. It’s time we acknowledge that our education systems are directly contributing to the youth mental health crisis.

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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. Hear their experiences and predictions on this week’s episode.

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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 13, 2022

Research by the nonprofit Gardner Institute and other groups has found that these typically-freshman-year classes tend to prune some kinds of students from academic tracks more than others. Research shows students may drop out or change their major based on these gateway courses.” Organic chemistry , anyone?) history surveys.

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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

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. What does the research say can be done about all the misinformation online?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These efforts can be important and life-changing , yet research finds that increased learning time alone will not be enough to recover from the pandemic’s devastating effects on learning. Nevertheless, the research shows educators and parents should continue to advocate for SEL, and disregard the political noise that accompanies it.

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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. And the growth is steep — up 10 percent compared to last year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Our collective responsibilities range from curating extensive collections, providing instructional services and supporting research activities, to ensuring the accessibility and relevance of our digital and physical resources for our students and faculty members. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure.

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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. The most common reason is stigma. That’s where so many college students are getting hung up.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Yes, it can be, according to two groups of researchers who have tested how programs aimed at fostering belonging have impacted students’ academic performances. Mentor is now part of the faculty at the university’s Teachers College, where one of her research areas is education equity.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

Some researchers are exploring one that might sound trivial but actually could be quite thorny: What should these computer-generated educational assistants look and sound like? He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones.

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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

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

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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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. Microschooling was an experiment whose insights she meant to transpose into public schools. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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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. This one was in a research context. So for my next few installments, I’m writing letters to people who have exemplified what it means to be an effective teacher. The second clip came more toward the later half of the class time.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For educators like Aion and Bowyer, the expectation that public education would “return to normal” is one of the factors that pushed them out of the profession. And research has shown that when teachers leave, many schools have a difficult time attracting new ones, and instead hire less experienced or less prepared teachers.

Psychology 118

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The brain research on emotional intelligence as it relates to student learning is clear.” Timothy Kanold Co-Creator and Author, Wellness Solutions for Educators As Kanold explains, teacher and administrator mental and emotional well-being is an essential component of student learning. Timothy Kanold excitedly shares.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

The researchers didn’t actually study how people use Google or any internet search engine. Other researchers couldn’t replicate the Google effect when they repeated similar memory experiments. In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences.

Psychology 98

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is a nexus—kids and climate—where research is becoming more and more robust, yet public awareness and understanding lag far behind. Haspel is a leading voice on early childhood education and author of “ Crawling Behind: America’s Child Care Crisis and How to Fix It.” Elliot Haspel hopes to change that, and soon.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

But such programs also carry risks, according to the study, which calls for further research to be conducted to assess how well peer-support efforts actually work and to determine best practices for running them. After all, the report notes, when students experience distress, they usually talk about it first with each other.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. It’s designed for students new to the University of Virginia—but not entirely new to higher education. Students will need to craft a research question, read relevant sources and synthesize what they learn in a short paper. What is happening?’”

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