ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Solórzano and Lindsay Pérez Huber contextualize these harmful lived experiences through vivid storytelling and rigorous research,⁴ illuminating their lasting physical, psychological and social consequences. Are you asking about my culture, what languages I speak, or what my family history is?” American Psychological Association. ⁷

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

All four Hidalgos love American history, and a dual-enrollment course allowed their 17-year-old daughter to earn college credit while sharing the class content with her brother and parents. 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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Math performance among elementary and middle-school students has fallen by 6 to 15 percent below pre-pandemic growth rates, depending on the students’ age, since before the pandemic, according to the Northwest Evaluation Association, which administers standardized tests nationwide. There’s already ample and dramatic evidence of this.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

These motivational posters in a New York City middle school are a small example of how growth-mindset theory has swept through schools. “Many researchers in psychology use old benchmarks that are for laboratory studies that are carefully controlled,” Dweck said. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

Once a month, this column will examine the insights that science offers about the way people learn, and how such findings could influence schools. Most of us can remember a moment like this from our school years: the teacher poses a question – maybe it’s math, maybe history. You’re shot down. You got it wrong. classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Working with Eskolta School Research and Design, a New York-based education-consulting firm, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a California-based education research center, the Department was testing solutions inside dozens of schools. Gallin’s school was one of them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Before Rockville Centre detracked math in the ninth and 10th grades, for example, it added support math classes in middle school so that all students graduated eighth grade having completed algebra. Wells Middle School, D.C.’s s newest SEM school, opened just last year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

When I first met Pierre-Floyd, she told me McDonogh #35 had felt like “a baby HBCU,” the high school version of Howard University or the fictional Hillman College depicted on A Different World. Teachers valued her blackness, she said, and taught her the history of African and African-American strength. I’m asking Jesus. Stop Jalal.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The school later concluded that putting Foundling caseworkers inside the school building wasn’t essential, so long as kids were getting mental health support from social workers when they needed it, Baccaglini says. Recently, all but one of the school’s upper floors gave way to classrooms as Haven has added middle-school grades.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

And even if young men resolve to go to college later, he said, history shows that “their chances of actually coming back to higher ed are probably slim to none.”. Pedro Hidalgo, a senior at the University Park Campus School in Worcester, Massachusetts. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. “We

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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

JANUARY 24, 2017

Over half of the kids we surveyed in middle school had someone close to them who had been murdered,” Shervington said. Recently, middle-school teacher Katie Murray walked into her first class of the day with red-rimmed eyes, after hearing that a former student, Tyre Smith, 18, had been found shot dead. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town. psychology class. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies. Glenn Youngkin.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

. — Standing in front of 240 freshmen and 80 fellow seniors in her school’s gymnasium, a slight 17-year-old with her hair in pigtail braids took a long shuddering breath. His role as a teacher, he added, is to give students time and space at school to both process their emotions and learn how to handle them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Nearly 2 in 3 LGBTQ+ youth said that learning about potential legislation banning discussions of LGBTQ+ people in schools negatively affected their mental health. In some cases, that meant removing any information on sexuality or sexual maturation from elementary school health curricula, and also revising health, psychology and certain A.P.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

A few weeks prior, the group hosted a talk titled “Book Censorship in Our Schools” at the Central Fire Station in Ithaca, New York. The Watkins Glen conference also came on the heels of one of the most violent and divisive school textbook battles in history. I began to agree with them,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

He was glad he had something from home as he walked alone into North Middle School to start eighth grade in his new hometown of Sioux City, Iowa. That meant Cristian started his first day of school in America without a hug from his mom or a reassuring smile from his dad. Nor did he walk into school with his brother.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. Inspiration for these squadrons sprang from a 1946 study surveying 10,000 Americans, according to the 1990 API history.

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