The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2020

Jada Ponce was surprised to get a letter, when she was a senior in high school, saying that she’d been admitted to the University of Idaho — without having applied. The next day at school, all the other seniors Ponce spoke to had gotten the same letter. Photo: Saydee Brass for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme on Facebook. Bowman noted, “As dangerous or harmful as they can be, these narratives are designed to be engaging and satisfy deep psychological needs, such as the need for community and understanding. How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course. I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Cori Schwarzrock is an AP Psychology teacher at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Il.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

What The Research Says About The Effect Of Socioeconomic Status In High School And College Baker and Johnston (2010) conducted a study of middle school-aged students with the purpose of examining the impact SES has on performance during standardized testing. The first was peer influence. The second factor was low teacher morale.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

I took calculus as a high school senior. Only 20 or so students at the large Catholic all-girls school I attended in Chicago were in the class. Yet calculus continues to enjoy a singular status in high school advanced math. It was the ultimate destination on the advanced math track.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

The College Board was right to insist on maintaining its standards, and yet the cost to students could have been extremely high. AP Psychology is a popular course, and rigorous AP classes help prepare students for college and demonstrate their skills for college admissions. I majored in psychology before forging a political career.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Most formal academic ‘platforms’ like public schools and universities tend to parse knowledge into content areas–what is being learned–rather than how and why it is being learned. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. And that’s when I said no.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. Alternative schools can vary widely, and some have been criticized for warehousing difficult cases and using harsh discipline.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

The article notes that Dr. Fuchs is concentrating on academic outcomes and acknowledges that inclusion may have psychological or social benefits that were [not] studied. Social or psychological benefitslike peer interaction, belonging, and reduced isolationarent incidental to learning/academic achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

Gaggle, the company that developed the software that tracks Vancouver schools students online activity, believes not monitoring children is like letting them loose on a digital playground without fences or recess monitors, CEO and founder Jeff Patterson said. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

Not enough schools are truly integrating technology into instruction, as well as encouraging students to bring their own technology to school. Recently, I made my way to New Milford High School in Bergen County, NJ. is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at Queens College, CUNY.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

And two episodes of our narrative series about the growing skepticism of college made the cut, both of which focused on how students are changing how they think about what to do after high school. A key theme in most of these is how educators are struggling to make students feel connected to the material in todays classrooms.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

To add to the pile of psychological and physical health repercussions of this trend, there’s even more serious reason not to use physical education as punishment: it could be illegal in your state. That’s right. Kymm’s direct service to children influences her work at the national level today.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

According to a paper published in the February 2025 issue of the Journal of Education Psychology, the 565 children who received the Core Knowledge lessons did better on tests of the topics and words that were taught, compared with 626 children who had learned reading as usual and werent exposed to these topics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Every senior spends a month working outside of school at full-time internships throughout Chicago. Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. Linnea Garrett, Chicago Technology Academy school director. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. A staff shake-up ensued.

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The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

I have written pretty extensively about when, why, and how I infuse retrieval practice into my high school classroom. More concretely, if I ask students in my psychology course to describe one theory of motivation, will other theories of motivation also be strengthened in their memory? Teaching of Psychology , 52 (1), 17-26.

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ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

A study published in Developmental Psychology found that early math skills at kindergarten entry are among the most significant predictors of later academic achievement , even more so than early reading skills. This highlights the necessity of integrating robust numeracy programs into early education frameworks to give students a head start.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

My classmates at th e public high school I attend in New York City are not unusual: In a recent survey, 89 percent of students who responded said they had used ChatGPT for homework. Take AP Psychology. Benjamin Weiss is a junior at Midwood High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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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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Education Week - Social Studies

AUGUST 22, 2023

See how the College Board, Cambridge International, and the International Baccalaureate approach psychology courses.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The simulations allow learners to enter a virtual environment and role play with virtual students who are manifesting signs of psychological distress, according to Albright. Kognito’s virtual simulation training specifically for high school teachers, staff and administrators is meant to help those educators become effective gatekeepers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

The onus is now on schools to ensure theyre purchasing accessible materials and the clock is ticking away on their two-year deadline. As a Principal, I Thought I Promoted Psychological Safety. Social-Emotional Learning Strategies Don't Work for Every Student. Here's What Does. Then a Colleague Spoke Up.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2020

Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, was concerned about how that could happen safely. “I I go to a school with over 2,000 kids that walk through the door every single day,” she said. No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. Credit: Chloe Pressley.

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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

MAY 1, 2017

This year’s high school seniors can now use tax returns from the prior year and they have also had three extra months to apply for financial aid for college, thanks to recent changes in federal financial aid policy that have brought some additional time for what remains a complex and confusing application process for families.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

One of the biggest challenges to making communities that are overall better for youth mental health is the very way the issue is talked about, says Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute and a psychological anthropologist. What Motivates the Adolescent Brain? The campaign didn’t land.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Even before the pandemic, a mental health crisis among high schoolers loomed. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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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.

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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 16, 2020

Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of their predecessors had done: going to college. This story also appeared in Wired. How can we work together to fix it?’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. Nikita Nerkar, a peer wellness coach and senior from Phoenix majoring in psychology, said students often “are looking to have a space to talk things through.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Yet another explanation is a psychological one. The isolation may have stunted psychological development and that ultimately affected motivation, study skills and the ability to delay gratification – all necessary to excel in math. Students at Catholic schools are generally much higher performing than students at public schools.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Today, some 70 years after reformers launched a movement to make the middle grades more responsive to the needs of early adolescents, too many middle schools continue to operate like mini high schools, on a “cells and bells” model, said Chad Ratliff, the principal of Community Lab School. Peter Gray, Boston College.

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