The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

For a moment, I picture myself in an alternate universe and think, today is the day the chamber choir is performing as part of the Mayor’s address — or the ukulele donation is getting delivered to the elementary school , or the guest artist-in-residence is arriving at the middle school rock band classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. The researcher, Jessica Schleider, currently a psychology fellow at Yale Medical School, adapted Dweck’s online program into two half-hour mindset lessons, one aimed at depression and the other at anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’ Up to 70 percent of undergraduate students work, but jobs have historically been seen as an academic hazard. “As Vega-Tatum grew up in Stockton, a community mostly known for its high crime rate, and played three sports in high school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. So they’re looking for inspiration from other sectors — including video game design and elementary school classrooms — to keep lectures interesting.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This one involved finding a kindergarten for Krishna, a stem-cell transplant survivor who suffers from a rare immune disorder and whose main special needis to be kept apart from other humans. She assured me that Krishna would be enrolled in his neighborhood school and registered for home instruction with a certified teacher.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It exists in nature and it is a cornerstone of our economy, but there’s a lack of consensus among psychologists as to whether competitiveness is learned or if it’s instinctual and part of human nature. Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

I learned about Binet, and his ideas about how IQ tests should — and should not — be used in elementary schools while reporting a piece last month for The Hechinger Report and Slate on the debate over cognitive testing in school placement and psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Two Forest Grove Elementary School students show off their block structures for Nesra Yannier to photograph during an experiment. PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. Photo: Jill Barshay. Because it …”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Writing a strong resumé for robot and human readers (Eye on Psi Chi) Thus, many companies have turned to automated software to help them discriminate among resumés. Mindfulness transforms culture at high-needs elementary school (NPR) A struggling elementary school in East Nashville, Tenn.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: The next hurdle came while Colson was still in middle school, when Brown realized that he had been placed on what is called the certificate track, which meant he would graduate with a certificate of completion, an alternate diploma that is not recognized by most colleges and employers.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Excessive screen time is also linked to a decreased interest in reading among elementary school students. At a time when 40% of elementary school students cannot read at a basic level, setting students up for literacy is crucial. Current Directions in Psychological Science , 27 (5). Frontiers in Psychology , 10.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Baccaglini wanted to see if, by drawing on the agency’s long experience with traumatized kids and locating casework services within a school, the Foundling could make a difference. So, in 2008, the agency rented space at the Mott Haven neighborhood elementary school, P.S. 43, and broke ground on an adjacent plot of long-vacant land.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

Crisp Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire. Crisp Elementary School in the small city of Nashua, New Hampshire, nodded. It’s also a fact — true, true, true, and we can prove it — that full-day kindergarten classes like Lemoine’s help kids do better in early elementary school, researchers say.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Still, our school system’s over-reliance on punishment and obedience makes me worry about the impact on my kids. Would school eventually dim the unabashed and loud joy from my child? What psychological and spiritual damage would this cause? There was a school shooting in Texas. An elementary school.” “No…

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

When I was a student, the coverage of school shootings was hardly ever mentioned in my school. As an eighth-grader, I felt confused and devastated when the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting happened. The day after the shooting, I rehearsed what I would say to my group of sixth grade students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

She’s been working with this group and 20 other preschool teachers and directors in the area since the beginning of the school year. Neal Horen, director of the early childhood division at Georgetown University’s Center for Child and Human Development, said consultations should be available to every child.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“We need to be very careful about what kind of materials are being provided to your children,” Jennifer McWilliams of Purple for Parents says in the video , while also warning of “psychological manipulation of your children to get them to adapt critical race theory in order to dismantle our systems … This is a revolution.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. didn’t. Related: A school district is building a DIY broadband network.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

But in a whirl of confusion, it was marked as both pro-Franco and anti-Franco — and also as “communist, anarchist, manic-depressive, and schizoid,” according to an analysis of children’s book censorship in the Elementary School Journal in 1970. Related: Florida just expanded school vouchers — again. What does that really mean?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Kentucky’s law , passed in March, is one of the nation’s most sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ laws, prohibiting school districts from compelling teachers to address trans students by their pronouns and banning transgender students from using school bathrooms or changing rooms that match their gender identity. Some families have sued.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Jennifer Merritt’s first-graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency.

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