ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.

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High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The family, who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, has chosen a hybrid home school model – half a day of distance learning with the local school and half a day of activities and lessons arranged at home. “I Fatima Siddiqui always knew she wanted to home-school her kids. They’re average.”.

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Lesson Plan Cultures Private School Public School 137

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Just 15 percent of the roughly 1,000 students at the school receive free or reduced lunch , a federal marker of poverty. 77 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged. Public Schools closed its gifted and talented programs. In 2018, parents demanded that the school lower its graduation requirements.

Teaching 135

Teaching Economics High School Private School 135

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In class, students study all the familiar concepts of high school English, but they’re applying these concepts to a work they care about passionately. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

Teaching 111

Teaching Oral History Sociology High School 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When Williams and her classmates began considering colleges, Marcovitz wanted the teenagers to have the same experience he’d had at Maret, a prestigious private school he’d attended on scholarship in D.C. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor.

Charter School 110

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 110

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But Betsy DeVos attended private schools and sent her children to them. ” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Her qualification to be Secretary of Education?

Charter School 111

Charter School Private School Tradition Public School 111