The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A study published in 2023 in the journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology documented that second graders memorized more multiplication facts when they practiced using flashcards rather than by repeating their times tables aloud. Researchers may eventually find that a combination of techniques is even more powerful.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A team of Canadian and Australian researchers decided to take a scientific approach and comb through classroom studies across the world on sparking student motivation. They found 144 studies involving nearly 80,000 students, from elementary school through university. Others lavish praise or dole it out judiciously.

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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 downsides of homework and scheduled activities were most pronounced during the high school years, when students are feeling pressure to earn high grades and load up on extracurriculars for their college applications, the researchers found.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

As a laboratory for the Albemarle district, Community Lab School is charged with testing new approaches to middle school that could be scaled to the district’s five comprehensive middle schools. Meanwhile, new findings in developmental psychology are shedding a fresh light on what motivates middle schoolers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended.

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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. The Penn State researchers analyzed an existing U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Elementary education has traditionally focused on English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, often at the expense of social studies and science. However, research shows that these content-rich subjects play a vital role in literacy development by building background knowledge, strengthening comprehension, and expanding vocabulary.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning losses. “At Unfortunately, data from the past two school years no longer support this conclusion. One report documented that U.S. One is phonics.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

It’s audible proof that a student is paying attention and not drifting off, research suggests. Its tutors are in India, but many of its clients are American families with elementary school children. In interviews with the researchers, students said the meter made the tutoring session feel like a game.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

With this privilege, we understand our responsibility to offer research and resources to help families, schools, teachers, and students who are navigating a new reality of learning. Carly Chillmon (Pre-K and Elementary School Parent): My kids are active, very active.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In a majority of districts, students are spending some or all of their school days online. And they’re eating more junk food, according to research from Ireland and Italy. If school closures continued through the end of this year, childhood obesity rates would climb by more than 2 percent. Others are trickier.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Research shows there are four elements that help students become naturally motivated to learn: challenge , goals , feedback , and curiosity. Below we share her tips, along with other research-based ideas to help developers create products to improve student motivation. To read more on Student Motivation, visit the Research Map.

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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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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

AUGUST 23, 2021

“As educators, we often focus on communicating what we don’t want our students to be doing in class, but we have found that just doesn’t work,” said Keith Herman, a professor in the University of Missouri College of Education who was one of the researchers in the study, in a press release.

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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 Many adults also like to think that kids don’t notice these differences.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

It may seem frivolous to spend so much money on a school dedicated to a grade level that students aren’t even required to attend in most states , but research shows kindergarten can be one of the most important years in a child’s educational career. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. It is the natural way in which we learn.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Working in college signals to employers “that this person has soft skills, that they can get there, that they can take direction, that they can collaborate as part of a team,” said Daniel Douglas, a researcher and lecturer at Trinity College who has studied the issue. Let me pull up.’” In contrast, under a pandemic-era waiver from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

This 2017 photo of a New York City middle school shows growth mindset messages on student-made posters. Researchers are finding mindset exercises benefit certain kinds of students and not others. Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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Digital Promise

MAY 8, 2019

In the research literature, the learning advantage of distributed over massed practice is known as the spacing effect. In general, the research evidence is clear that spaced or distributed practice is superior to massed practice for long-term learning and retention. Learn more about research-backed best practices in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “In There’s research to back that up. There’s more distractions for guys.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2017

By age six, girls are less likely than boys to view their own gender as brilliant and express interest in activities described as for “really, really smart” children, according to new research published in Science. The beliefs of children matter because they could shape students’ interests and achievement over time, other research suggests.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

Across the nation, 13 percent of Black students were diagnosed with disabilities at school, far higher than the 9 percent disability rate among white children, according to the most recent tally of the U.S. Department of Education. In the study, “ Which Students With Disabilities are Placed Primarily Outside of U.S.

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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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 21, 2015

In the research literature, the learning advantage of distributed over massed practice is known as the spacing effect. In general, the research evidence is clear that spaced or distributed practice is superior to massed practice for long-term learning and retention. in Cognitive Psychology at Washington University in St.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In classrooms across the country, the first months of school this fall have laid bare what many in education feared: Students are way behind in skills they should have mastered already. Research shows if children are struggling to read at the end of first grade, they are likely to still be struggling as fourth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2016

Education schools need to get better at both getting scientific research into the hands of future educators and providing those teachers with guidance for turning that research into practice, they said. “My Say you take a course called educational psychology, maybe it’s good, maybe it sucks,” he said.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. That includes librarians as well.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

A long-time staple of Montessori schools, multiage classrooms spread to progressive elementary schools in the 1990s, although their use was always just one ingredient in a mix intended to provide more personalized instruction. Today, multiage classrooms remain an anomaly in America.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

Widely reported research has shown surprising levels of hunger and homelessness among American college and university students. My dad’s a city worker and my mom is a librarian at an elementary school, so there’s not too much to go around for college,” Harden said. I’ve been doing awesome ever since,” said Gorder. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Most still read at an elementary school level. By her sophomore year, Williams was earning all A’s and B’s, and Sci’s test scores were the best of any open-enrollment high school in the city. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe? Is there a way to teach students who don’t naturally think aloud in their heads to do this?

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

When students need to read for understanding, comprehension, or retention, research shows that they perform better with print materials rather than a screen. Research shows that paper learning better engages students, improves material retention and comprehension, and helps them move to a ready-to-learn mindset.

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