The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math. Yet another explanation is a psychological one.

Private School 141

Private School Psychology Public School Middle School 141

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

Public School 134

Public School Civics Private School K-12 134

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. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. It even happens in preschool, this withholding of academic supports.”

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Tradition Public School Research Government 137

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. Related: Homeless students set adrift by school closures face crisis after crisis. Last spring, Ciera Pritchett watched her life fall apart. This story also appeared in NBC News.

Government 133

Government Psychology Private School Research 133

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When Williams and her classmates began considering colleges, Marcovitz wanted the teenagers to have the same experience he’d had at Maret, a prestigious private school he’d attended on scholarship in D.C. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s.

High School 111

High School Economics Psychology Political Science 111