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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 The low success rate for new ideas is “psychologically disappointing,” said Barbara Goodson, lead author of the report and an expert in educational research at the consulting firm Abt Global. The failure rate was 74 percent.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations.

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As more young people receive psychiatric care, some hospitals have opened their own schools

The Hechinger Report

A closet in the hallway has been transformed into a makeshift library. Marraccini, an associate professor of school psychology at UNC’s School of Education. She now works as an engagement and behavior specialist with Northwest Education Services, a government agency that supports school districts, helping students with emotional needs.

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Making positive educational moves during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put ‘the Netflix of online learning’ into action,” she said. “I What we wanted to be able to do is teach educators the psychology of stress, the biology of stress and evidenced-based strategies to manage stress, for themselves and for their kids,” he said.

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Ethnography and Ethnology

Anthropology for Beginners

Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. Until recently the optimal choice was to seek out as exotic a locale for research as possible; choosing sites closer to home and writing library dissertations were viewed as inferior alternatives.

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Colleges are withholding transcripts and degrees from millions over unpaid bills

The Hechinger Report

Then, just when he had polished off the credits required for a bachelor’s degree in management with a minor in psychology, Toro logged on to his university email account and found an unexpected notification from the bursar’s office. Credit: Meredith Nierman, GBH News. The subject: “Degree Withheld.”.

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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

It doesn’t follow from that that more choice is always better,” said Barry Schwartz, professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College and the author of “The Paradox of Choice,” about the psychological ramifications of a supermarket culture that offers 175 kinds of salad dressings and 275 breakfast cereals.

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