The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Elementary school students in grades two to six were making slow progress, and remained behind. It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. Deteriorating mental health is also a leading theory for school struggles. One is phonics.

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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.”. Sara Stevens teaches a lesson to her kindergarteners.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

Montessori schools have many loyal devotees and they’re certainly rising in popularity among American parents. But are they any better than traditional schools, or other progressive teaching philosophies? The results are mixed: promising for preschool, not so promising for older students in high school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced. 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

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

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. Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.).

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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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Psychology Elementary School Research Tradition 79

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2016

Relay is a teacher preparation program founded in 2011 by three high-achieving charter school networks that were concerned about the quality of teachers coming out of traditional degree programs. Even at education schools with courses on cognitive development, students are often left wanting, said Riley, the Deans for Impact founder.

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Charter School Psychology Tradition Elementary School 75

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. That's become harder to do.

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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. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Now, new studies warn of the pandemic’s potentially “debilitating effects” on children’s psychological, developmental and educational progress as anxiety, depression and loneliness increased over the last year. And that having mental health providers improves outcomes for students and can improve overall school safety.

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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. Related: A school district is building a DIY broadband network. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs.

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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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Controversial Topics Psychology Elementary School Pedagogy 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. Most still read at an elementary school level. psychology class. while she puzzled over psychology homework in the one hour she had to spare.

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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

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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Elementary School Psychology K-12 Private School 90

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2020

Now a senior, Cristian is enrolled in four AP classes (Psychology, Biology, Computer Science, and Spanish) and two dual-credit classes with the local college (physics and calculus). School offices across the district were decorated for Christmas and holiday concerts were planned, many chock full of traditional Christmas carols.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”. Some of this helped.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2025

Her team noticed that for days following a raid, immigrant students wouldnt arrive at school. Center researchers also heard about immigration officers parking outside of elementary schools and early childhood programs to arrest parents they suspected of violating immigration rules. Fears like that spread, Cervantes says.

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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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