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

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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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

But overall, EdSurge articles that highlighted educators experiences and called for more connection gripped readers all year. As a Principal, I Thought I Promoted Psychological Safety. Here are the most popular K-12 stories of 2024. Then a Colleague Spoke Up.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects. My next class was in the psychology department, on the topic of lifespan development. But experts who watch trends in teaching say that something is different now.

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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. And it also helps teachers to develop key knowledge and skills they need for teaching mathematics. This can reveal common struggles.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a result, teaching students how to read is a complex and challenging endeavor — that’s why it takes years. Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs). Reading requires building connections in the brain that wouldn’t exist without explicit instruction.

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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

MAY 7, 2024

This fall, Martinez will become a bilingual teacher for students in kindergarten through eighth grade in Morgan Hill, a small city near San Jose, California, as part of the next Teach for America cohort. I’ve wanted to go into the teaching profession ever since then. Teaching did cross my mind. What motivates them?

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. Her discipline is psychology and she invited me to come observe one of her final classes at our university.

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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. The apprehension that generative AI could revolutionize the very core of teaching and learning is not unfounded.

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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

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. Josh Davenport: When I was younger and trying to figure out my life, my mom always said, ‘You would be great at teaching.’ I guess she was right.

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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 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

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. The experiment did not address the difference in educational value between a real-world field trip and a virtual one.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The platform doesn’t make ratings or recommendations, but it does aim to provide enough information so that higher ed educators can select products for use in courses. The product reviews are conducted by an advisory board made up of university professors, administrators and innovation experts (the board is soliciting new members through Oct.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. The devaluation and inadequate compensation for educators’ work, along with the staffing shortage, exacerbates the situation.

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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

APRIL 27, 2023

It turns out, one of the world’s most-cited educational researchers, Richard Mayer , is working on a series of studies looking at what kind of computer-generated voices and images are most engaging to learners and lead to the best outcomes. Is Authenticity Essential? Students can clue into the authenticity of teachers.”

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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

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 6, 2024

These changes, called a “decisive victory” in the long-standing “reading wars,” have pitted education research favoring phonics-based instruction against other ways of teaching students to read, including word recognition.

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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 8, 2022

In the bad-old days of college teaching, especially in technical subjects, professors would stand before a classroom of freshmen and say, “Look to the right, look to the left. In a poll addressed to attendees, I asked them to identify engaging teaching methods they use online and in person. One of them will not graduate.”

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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 3, 2024

At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. People tend to get pushed away from math during adolescence or college, says Dana Miller-Cotto, an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

EdSurge connected with educators who decided to leave the classroom this year and with researchers focused on child psychology and student achievement to better understand how turnover impacts teachers and students—and why the retention crisis remains, despite efforts to return to normalcy.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

Doug Lemov, bestselling author and founder of “ Teach Like a Champion ,” a nationally recognized organization that provides resources for effective teaching, asserts that teachers should not be solely responsible for the psychological impact of students’ technology usage.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. We talk with one of those experts, plus others who are seeking to build guardrails to help educators successfully adapt to the latest AI technology.

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ED Surge

MAY 12, 2022

They hold those jobs for different reasons—to pay off student debt, to afford an apartment without roommates, to set themselves up to leave teaching for good, to online shop guilt-free, to afford the occasional take-out order—and with varying degrees of necessity. We all know we’re going to have to do more [than teach]. Megan Hines.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. This is his third year in the profession.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Deborah Appleman: I [used to be] a high school English teacher, but at Carleton I'm in the educational studies department. And I cannot tell you how many conversations I've had with colleagues who are rethinking what they're teaching. How can educators respond to these changes?

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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. To that end, Brookdale offers college readiness courses to its high school students who participate in dual enrollment programs, designed to teach them skills they need to succeed in advanced classes.

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