The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. . Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Dawn Lineberry, a sixth grade math teacher at Jackson Middle School in Guilford County, North Carolina, noticed that some of her students were struggling with long division. Principal Angela McNeill of Eastern Guilford Middle School said that students had lost ground in multiplication, division and problem solving.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. That’s why it’s concerning that high-achieving students, who’ve received less public attention than lower achieving students, were also set back by remote learning and pandemic uncertainty. Yet another explanation is a psychological one.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2015

Now, when weather makes it too dangerous for students to come to school, they attend virtually. Elementary and middle school students log into the district’s learning management system from their home computers to complete designated snow-day lessons. " Jason Hall, a teacher at Owsley County Schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. That can especially be the case for students who are racial minorities. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the ideas based on your research findings?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Photo: Amadou Diallo, for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Psychology professor Daniel Willingham and middle school teacher Paul Bruno, working with the organization Deans for Impact, summarized these concepts in a concise 2015 report, “ The Science of Learning.” The 2014 bestseller “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning,” by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

High school teacher, Tennessee. As students and teachers return to school, many are focused on rebuilding the relationships that 84 percent of teachers felt suffered during the pandemic. So now I get it.” – Middle school teacher, New Jersey. I hope that students feel comfortable using it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. But most schools lack funding or capacity for adequate counseling services for students and staff. “In In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers” Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

And even if adults try to hide it, that stress trickles down to children and affects how they do academically, psychologically and emotionally. Lisa Sanetti, a professor of educational psychology at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, said recent research shows adult stress affects children’s bodies.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

We’re more focused on money,” said Adon, 17, a senior at a public high school here. Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor, University Park Campus School. Stopping education after high school not only limits men’s options; it threatens to further widen socioeconomic and political divides, Brooms said.

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 31, 2020

More sleep and asking for help can help students with stress (KOAA) A recent nationwide survey by conducted the American Psychological Association found as many of 35 percent of high school students reported lying awake at night, unable to sleep because of stress. Why won’t society let black girls be children?

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

Vic Vuchic (Elementary and Middle School Parent): My son is in third grade and my daughter is in sixth grade. Jeff Wayman (Middle and High School Parent): We’re focusing on intrinsic learning. Judi Fusco (High School Parent): I’m working to help my kids have a little bit of normal in their lives.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

The decline in the number of high school graduates, projected before the pandemic, combined with plummeting high school graduation rates in multiple states, has left fewer high school graduates applying to enroll in colleges and universities this fall. By this spring, the number had declined by almost 1.4

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

Students at the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a public high school in New York City, have an elective class that mixes students from all high-school grades and encourages them to talk about issues like the purpose and meaning of life. Illustration: Jutta Kuss/Getty Images. It’s 12:15 p.m. It’s 12:15 p.m.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2015

Angela Duckworth, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching 7th grade math in New York City public schools when she quickly noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students. Individuals with a growth mindset believe intelligence and talent can be developed through hard work and dedication.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

In Southern California’s Cajon Valley Union School District, career exploration starts in kindergarten. Career exploration in the form of internships, externships and apprenticeships is getting more attention around the country, but usually it’s a concern of high schools. Teachers say they are already overstretched.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. As Bronx middle school teacher Roxanne Leak put it during an interview, “It’s unfortunate. Teachers are leaving.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

One widely used program called CHAMPS was recently tested in a study involving more than 100 teachers and almost 1,500 middle-school students in a randomized controlled trial — the kind of gold-standard experiment that is common in medicine but not in education. The experiment took place in two St. “As

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Students in Bruce Hecker’s twelfth grade English class at South Side High School all study the same advanced curriculum regardless of their skill level. and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Something that was a really common thread was older students who said they had the exact same experience in middle school or high school, where for 20 minutes, they thought they were dying, and they were texting their goodbyes to their parents, and then it turned out to be just a drill,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. The Hechinger Report is an independent news organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University, but has no relationship with the middle school or the researchers involved in the study. )

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

There’s some child who’s on your roster, who is only one child, but takes up like 70, 80, 90 percent of your emotional bandwidth,” said Gehlbach, a former high school history teacher. The researchers only had discipline records for middle school students so they weren’t able to perform the same analysis for younger kids.).

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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.” “By definition, grit is passion for something that takes a long time to complete and perseverance.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

“If your goal is self-actualization for the child, and you want them to discover what they’re good at, then personalizing learning sounds like it would be really wonderful,” said Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies how cognitive psychology applies to schooling.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Students waited in line to take the National College Entrance Examination, also known as Gaokao, at a high school in Beijing, China. Psychological disorders often show up during the teenage years. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images. What happens when you add a stressful health pandemic to the developing teenage brain?

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ED Surge

JULY 29, 2024

When I went to college, right out of high school, I got my degree in psychology and knew I wanted to do something in that realm, but circumstances didn't allow for that for quite some time. Now we're in elementary schools, we're in middle schools, we're in high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

She said having someone at school who could help was “really, really important.” Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. “If

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2023

After a stint as a restaurant server, eight years working as a community crisis liaison, and the last three years as a restorative interventionist in a public high school, he’s learned how to read people, how to build their trust, and how to form meaningful connections with them. One of our kids attends the school that I work at.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. Not in fifth grade, but years later, when I was in middle school and high school, I did meet students who were just learning English as their second language. I’ve wanted to go into the teaching profession ever since then.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) Gregory, who studies school discipline, wasn’t present for the outburst itself but she saw its aftermath. Photo: Jim Vaiknoras for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio. Teachers are no more biased than other people, but also no less biased,” said Russell Skiba, a professor in the school psychology program at Indiana University and director of its Equity Project. Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio. That was the most unfair thing.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Even before the pandemic, her daughter asked to be pulled from high school. It just made think my children had another option to learn at home without that hostile environment.” “Home school is attractive because you get to spend more time as a family.”. Fatima Siddiqui always knew she wanted to home-school her kids.

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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. Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. ” Meanwhile, Schleider is bringing her psychological research back into the schoolhouse.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

BOSTON — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. He was speaking during a break in a city program for promising local high school students to study calculus for five hours a day throughout the summer at Northeastern University.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines competition as “any performance situation structured in such a way that success depends on performing better than others.” In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. That was too hard to bear.

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