The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

They found 144 studies involving nearly 80,000 students, from elementary school through university. If you want your students to be motivated at school, parents are important but they’re not enough,” said Julien Bureau, associate professor at Université Laval in Quebec and lead author of the study. Two conclusions jumped out.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Now a trio of economists say they’ve been able to calculate some of these psychological costs. The psychological downsides of overscheduling hit before students’ cognitive skills were maximized. She wonders what would happen if little kids were less scheduled in elementary school. One question Caetano has concerns timing.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Meanwhile, new findings in developmental psychology are shedding a fresh light on what motivates middle schoolers. They’re paying attention to the social world and one way to learn about the social world is to do things for others,” said Andrew Fuligni, a professor-in-residence in UCLA’s psychology department.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. Parents might turn to technologies or screens to manage their children’s outbursts,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school. I was fortunate to discover applied statistics in graduate school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

And what we really want to know is whether knowledge building at school helps poorer children, who are less likely to be exposed to the world through travel, live performances, and other experiences that money can buy. A new study, published online on Feb. Students were also given related books to read during the summer.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

Carly Chillmon (Pre-K and Elementary School Parent): My kids are active, very active. DeLisha Sylvester (Pre-K and Elementary School Parent): I am the mother of two children who are six and a half years apart. Other than that, she’s been helping her grandmother around the house—cooking, laundry, and cleaning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

. “Grit is probably not where schools should be spending their money and time,” he said, “because it’s not strongly related to academic success and because it’s unlikely to respond well to intervention.” “Grit is something I think young people need to grow toward,” said Duckworth.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2015

Each year, students at Owsley County Schools miss nearly a month of school because of snow and ice. The time away from class takes a real toll on student learning, says Jason Hall, an elementary school teacher in the rural Kentucky district. ” Not anymore, though.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Young kids do notice skin tone, they do notice race groups,” said Christia Spears Brown, a professor and associate chair of development and social psychology at the University of Kentucky, who has researched and written about identity development. “We Young kids do notice skin tone, they do notice race groups.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

School-age children should get an hour or more of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kyle Bragg, an elementary school PE instructor in Scottsdale, Arizona, said he’s yet to find an acceptable alternative to a jump rope; nothing rotates at the same speed.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2015

Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, showed that students become more motivated when they learn the brain is a muscle, which can get stronger, and that learning can lead to physical changes in the brain’s structure.

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ED Surge

JULY 29, 2024

As a school counselor, Leighanne Mainguy can never be sure what’s in store for her each day. Some days, she arrives at her elementary school to learn that a student is in crisis and needs her full attention; she’ll clear her schedule. Now we're in elementary schools, we're in middle schools, we're in high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Its tutors are in India, but many of its clients are American families with elementary school children. Beyond the technological hurdles, there are psychological ones too. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift One India-based tutoring company, Cuemath, trains its tutors to encourage students to talk more.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Elementary school students in grades two to six were making slow progress, and remained behind. Deteriorating mental health is also a leading theory for school struggles. 15, 2024, documented widespread psychological distress among teenage girls and preteen boys since the pandemic. One is phonics.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Learning games that have compelling, obvious goals are significantly more popular among elementary school children than those that don’t. Psychological Inquiry,11(4), 227–268. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1681–1695. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975, 67, 776–783. Boggiano, A. Garcia, A.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

About five years ago, as I walked my then-elementary school kids to school, I was bumped and run into by upper-school students glued to their phones — their consciousness taken hostage, essentially. Related: Proof Points: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2023

This week marks one year since an unspeakable act of violence was carried out in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. One year since a gunman stole the lives of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary. Children at Robb Elementary were of course most acutely affected by the shooting in Uvalde.

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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. During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Play is not divorced of learning,” said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, an author, professor of psychology at Temple University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who has studied child development and the role of play in learning for years. “It It is the natural way in which we learn.”. She said half-day kindergarten is partly to blame.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2021

Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. Herman’s earlier 2018 study of a praise-heavy classroom management program for elementary school students called The Incredible Years also found positive results.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report The 24-year-old now runs hurdles for the UC Davis track team while pursuing a double major in psychology and African American studies, and obstacles peppered his path off the track as well. When she was in elementary school, “it seemed like no one cared,” Warren said.

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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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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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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. That was too hard to bear.

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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. One of our kids attends the school that I work at.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

The results are mixed: promising for preschool, not so promising for older students in high school. In the October, 2017, preschool study , published in Frontiers in Psychology, six researchers looked at two Montessori schools in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, two peer-reviewed studies were published using this methodology.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

The program hired 600 college tutors to work with three to five elementary school kids apiece — in person, though at a social distance — at local Boys & Girls clubs. College senior Magdala Boco is taking a psychology class this summer at Queens College while she works 30 hours a week as a coach for College Bridge for All.

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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. The episode is part two of a narrative series we did on student disengagement.

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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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Digital Promise

MAY 8, 2019

Haley Vlach and colleagues found that distributed lessons improved elementary school children’s ability to generalize their learning about food chains to new biomes. His research addresses the application of cognitive psychology to improve learning and memory. in Cognitive Psychology at Washington University in St.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

NEW ORLEANS — Clutching a small purse, six-year-old Leona Tate walked into McDonogh 19 Elementary School here and helped to desegregate the South. She attended kindergarten several blocks from McDonogh 19 at an all-black elementary school, Joseph A. marshals who are shown escorting the girls from the school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

Now Hidalgo, 18, whose older brother started but never finished college, plans to pursue a degree in psychology and become a clinical therapist. Kellie Becker, head guidance counselor at North High School in Worcester, Massachusetts, says taking college courses while still in high school emboldens male students.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For instance, one 2013 experiment found that telling elementary school children “ girls do better than boys ” in school made boys – but not girls – perform worse on a series of academic tests. This female advantage started in elementary school and continued until college. Teachers’ stereotypes also matter.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 21, 2015

His research addresses the application of cognitive psychology to improve learning and memory. in Cognitive Psychology at Washington University in St. Educational Psychology Review, 24, 369-378. [ It is true that the bulk of the past research has focused on memory (e.g., Sean Kang, Ph.D., Dr. Kang earned his Ph.D. Cepeda, N.

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