Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This year marked the first time that applicants were required to submit video essays on their favorite history lessons, as opposed to traditional essays.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

I absolutely hated math in high school. It didn’t apply to anything I needed at the moment,” said Azmane, 20, who failed several semesters of math early in high school but last year got a B in the Linn-Benton course. “We At the level of individual schools, lack of money and time constrain the spread of applied math.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school. And the truth is, I do now, although that wasn’t always the case.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. One high school math teacher told me that she thinks learning failed to recover and continued to deteriorate because schools didn’t rush to fill the gaps right away.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

But instead of offering out-sized athletic scholarships or perks to potential out-of-state students, the university is doubling down on a bid for students who are often ignored — low-income, urban, public high school graduates with mediocre test scores. said Fakorede, who graduated from a magnet public high school in Newark.

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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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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

The Impact of Teacher Control When teachers exert total control over the curriculum, pacing, and behavior in a classroom, they stifle student autonomy—a fundamental psychological need essential for motivation. Companies are prioritizing skills and competencies over traditional qualifications, creating a more diverse and adaptable workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class. The kids who had been taught via traditional, explicit instruction switched to reviewing the remaining algebra topics through their errors. And the kids who had been correcting their errors received eight sessions of traditional test prep.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report Much attention in the post-pandemic era has been on what students have lost – days of school, psychological health, knowledge and skills. But now we have evidence that they may also have gained something: schools that address more of their needs.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Research on the physical, psychological and academic benefits of outdoor learning for kids is well-established, and is now informing the development of climate education. What’s also becoming well-known is the essential role of traditional and Indigenous ecological knowledge in the effort to cope with the climate crisis.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it. historians teaching them in their fancy high schools.”.

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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 June, many U.S. Not this year.

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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. They have been met with a tepid response from administrators who have traditionally considered mental health a private matter, not an institutional one.

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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. How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students. Thanks for listening!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

The pandemic forced school systems across the world to move to virtual platforms for teaching and learning. Grades are too often used as weapons that can create psychological and emotional harm to young people whose experiences, cultural practices and behaviors are incompatible with their schools and educators.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. PHOENIX, Ariz.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In past years, these programs met societal and student needs through instruction on culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed education, conscious leadership and many other progressive approaches. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. Overall, students didn’t benefit academically, psychologically or socially from the practice.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Yet multiple implementation challenges exist for WOW and other school-based student support programs. One is that the work of counselors is isolating and can lead to psychological burnout, said Inger Burnett-Zeigler, associate professor of psychology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

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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

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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Robert Groven, director of the Minnesota Urban Debate League, has been coaching high school debate competitions for more than 30 years, and he’s noticed a marked shift in student behavior in the past decade or so. Deborah Appleman: I [used to be] a high school English teacher, but at Carleton I'm in the educational studies department.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

became the lead plaintiff in a California lawsuit alleging that IQ tests discriminated against Black students and were too often used to label them “educable mentally retarded” and remove them from traditional classes. The California case had a big impact on the state with the largest public school enrollment but was an anomaly nationally.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

WASHINGTON — Like many high school seniors, Grant Austin Robert Simms was bombarded with marketing materials from colleges that showed euphoric students enjoying athletics, extracurricular clubs and the excitement of living on campus. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Nobody talks about that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

That’s why I am pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. According to Partnership with Native Americans , “only 17 percent of American Indian students are able to continue their education after high school, facing a number of challenges the average student does not encounter.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. The teenager is behind on credits, but hopes to catch up and graduate on time this school year. SAN DIEGO — Zaire Wallace looked forward to playing sports in high school.

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2023

Yet how we devised the traditional education system, they can’t be accepted the way they are. They are courageous to return to school. She had enrolled at ASU right after high school, back in 2010. Krip had started community college after high school, but left and went on to work in retail and as a nanny.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The father, Paul Carr, is 47, and he’s pushing to finish a college degree he started right after high school but stopped pursuing when he found out his then-girlfriend was pregnant with their first child. And there's no way that they can know coming out of high school what that really looks like. It used to work.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

as a female child of immigrants from Taiwan, this kind of behavior is practically sacrilegious; certainly scandalous and wildly antithetical to my traditional upbringing. The educators in our circles shared with each other the range of what they do when this happens to them at school, depending on the situation and who it’s coming from. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Even if the high school graduation rate rose to 100 percent and every one of those students went to college, however, it would fall short by a quarter of a million degree holders, according to a new study by the Education Commission of the States. He said few schools make it easy to transfer credits, however. 40% of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

She lacked mentors in high school and college. If she had had them, they might have advised her on which jobs to take and recommended her for positions that could have forged a more direct path to law school and eventually, a career as a lawyer. It’s just taking me a little longer than I expected.”.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Callahan promotes autonomy by structuring his high school psychology course around the interests of his students. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Journal of personality and social psychology, 87(2), 246. Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being across life’s domains.

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Digital Promise

MAY 8, 2019

For example, if you learned a foreign language in high school but can no longer speak it fluently, you would pick up the language more easily now than if you were learning it for the first time. His research addresses the application of cognitive psychology to improve learning and memory. Sean Kang, Ph.D. , Cepeda, N.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Black students are less likely to apply and be admitted to the state’s top tier schools. Black Virginians were more likely to have grown up in poor neighborhoods and attended elementary, middle and high schools with other poor students, less experienced teachers and fewer resources.

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