TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Don’t Use Physical Education As Punishment contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for their errors that day?

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

And hed struggled to finish high school. He recalls feeling so overwhelmed that he cried on the second day of school. Yaritza Garcia, a 22-year-old psychology major at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, said she wanted to supplement traditional therapy services with a peer counseling program.

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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 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 16, 2021

Welcome to Community Lab School, a tiny public charter that is trying to transform the way middle schoolers are taught in the Albemarle School District — and eventually the nation. Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Chad Ratliff, principal of Community Lab School.

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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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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

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

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

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

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 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

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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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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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

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

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

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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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

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

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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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

In high school, I was the lead in the musicals Little Shop of Horrors and Bye, Bye Birdie. I was on the varsity soccer, track, and cross-country teams in high school. When student behaviors distract from the learning or jeopardize the safe psychological space in the classroom, it is emotionally draining for educators.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Revere High School students eating and socializing in the cafeteria. Most days in Nancy Barile’s English course at Revere High School, a visitor might begin to wonder when the real class is going to start. Revere High School’s adjusted four-year graduation rate rose from 71.5 REVERE, Mass. percent in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Eventually she declared a major in psychology and a minor in art. Now a senior at Chestnut Hill College, Erin Crowley changed her major from psychology to accounting. She’s had to take a heavy course load and go to night school to graduate on time. Photo: Saquan Stimpson for The Hechinger Report.

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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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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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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. For the next five years, Therapy Thursdays became a family tradition.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.” Less discussed is the connection between water insecurity and violence against women.

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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

JULY 25, 2017

He thought if they made a mistake, the mistake would get entrenched, and you’d have to backtrack to erase it,” explains Janet Metcalfe, a professor of psychology at Columbia University, and the author of an impressive scientific review titled “Learning from Errors,” published earlier this year in Annual Review of Psychology.

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