The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2012, the panel issued a joint statement asserting that calculus should not be the “ultimate goal of the K-12 mathematics curriculum.” A handful of states — Ohio , Oregon and New Jersey among them — are piloting high school data science courses or adding them to their K-12 math standards.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection. James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. and Natalie Reid Dorn professor of human development at the University of California-Davis.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Dr. Callahan promotes autonomy by structuring his high school psychology course around the interests of his students. The” what” and” why” of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Sheldon, K. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Yeager, D.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

Yet, for too long, we have unfairly blamed K-12 counselors for persistent gaps in enrollment across income and race, questioning their expectations and support for students’ plans. Sign up for our newsletter. She is also the co-author of Ready, Willing, and Able: A Developmental Approach to College Access and Success.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The big wrinkle is that the researchers found that it’s not effective to start the school year with a couple of weeks of lessons on the scientific method, which many teachers do. Schunn, published October 2019 in the journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. This is the “ human connectome ” and each person’s is unique, like a fingerprint.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s 12:15 p.m. Kendall Cotton Bronk, associate professor of psychology, Claremont Graduate University. Research and scholarship on “purpose” has gained momentum in recent years, converging from developmental psychology, moral philosophy, positive psychology and other directions. Illustration: Jutta Kuss/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ava had always felt comfortable at the small, private K-8 school she attended just north of Boston. But eventually she agreed to transition back to school while spending one period a day in the program’s dedicated classroom, where she received emotional and psychological support and assistance catching up on the schoolwork she’d missed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Martin Credé, a social psychologist at Iowa State University, has been particularly outspoken. ” Credé first published his analysis of all the grit studies he could find and laid out the problems in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2017. . Choose as many as you like.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Our humanity matters, but our unique experiences also matter. school and university system, I wanted to find out how microaggressions shape the experiences of Asian American K-12 educators. We also talked about the realities of being Asian American educators, who represent only 2 percent of K-12 educators in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Too few parents and teachers are talking about race, gender and other identity traits with children often enough, which means they are missing out on critical opportunities to teach children to become tolerant of differences from an early age. Sign up for our Early Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. Leave this field empty if you're human: Not so in Galt.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: There’s bad news for parents who hope their toddler may learn something from a screen while also being entertained for just a few minutes: it’s unlikely to happen. Georgene Troseth, an associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University. Subscribe today! It launches in August.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The consequence is that many students are posting considerably lower scores than they otherwise would be if they were paying attention and putting in full effort, according to Wise’s calculations. The field of psychology has developed several theories. Choose as many as you like.

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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. REDMOND, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: A team of U.K. A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

Grundwag, who has a master’s degree in counseling psychology, says some preschool teachers may do things that can aggravate students’ misbehavior, such as talking about a student’s conduct in front of the child or speaking loudly and shaming students in front of their peers. Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. Inevitably, something gets missed. Some differing views. I need a break.’ ”.

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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!”) Leave this field empty if you're human: And there’s evidence for that effect. Photo: Jim Vaiknoras for The Hechinger Report. at his teacher, bringing class to a halt.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives. However, there are ways we can lean into our shared humanity, and I hope these suggestions can help spark that change for your school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Black male teachers are often asked to mentor or motivate students, particularly male of students of color, who their white colleagues may have trouble reaching. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: A core belief of those who created the program, which began this year, is that there is dignity in all work, a belief reflected in the range of careers highlighted. “We RIASEC is part of a psychology theory about how the choice of occupation relates to personality.) Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. I myself was teaching a class on campus, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” that I am now teaching remotely. In our current stay-at-home period, more than a thousand people have joined the pre-recorded version of this class each week.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

“We have this way of processing things in our brain where we actually attach information to a particular person, so we can imagine that person talking as we read their words,” says Monica Riordan, a cognitive scientist and assistant professor of psychology at Chatham University, in Pittsburgh. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. The researcher, Jessica Schleider, currently a psychology fellow at Yale Medical School, adapted Dweck’s online program into two half-hour mindset lessons, one aimed at depression and the other at anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

High school students are also teenagers, though, and while they may be technologically savvy, they are often psychologically unsophisticated and eager to be part of a cause or group — making them easy marks for the purveyors of misinformation. Some of the Parkland survivors received death threats that cited such “news” stories.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

Lingering events on my schedule are a drop in the bucket compared to what our students are missing — physically, psychologically and emotionally — each day they are not in school: Spring concerts and musicals, field trips, rehearsals and lessons, all meticulously and thoughtfully arranged by music teachers in Nashville and across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Some 3,200 students, many of them the first in their families to attend college, are participating in the inaugural year of the New Deal-esque program , in service jobs in K-12 education, food insecurity and climate mitigation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 31, 2017

But what about the value of recreational music-making, which is widely believed to improve physical and psychological well-being? Also, in one remarkable prison program in Philadelphia, music affords inmates “a chance to feel human again.”. “My Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

I am also interested in psychology and neuroscience. I raised my hand and answered that I thought Greta Thunberg’s speeches would be studied because if humans are still around in 200 years, it will be because of the awareness and passion she brought to the global climate crisis. I am an artist. I love to sing and paint.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. TJ Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees Chicago Technology Academy’s Real-World Learning program.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

She knows something about working under pressure: a nationally competitive soccer goalie in her youth, Beilock went on to earn PhDs in both sports science and psychology. Leave this field empty if you're human: I talk about this broadly as choking under pressure or having math anxiety or anxiety about a particular subject.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

Prior academic achievement has always had more influence than psychological variables on whether one persists in school or colleges. In one study , “prior academic achievement measures and psychological variables in combination accounted for 17 percent of the variance in students’ university GPA scores.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “The certificates made students attend school less,” said Robinson, clearly dismayed by what her experiment had wrought. In the California experiment, Robinson randomly assigned students in grades six through 12 to three groups: retrospective awards, prospective awards and no awards.

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