ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. Microschooling was an experiment whose insights she meant to transpose into public schools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

During my K-12 schooling experience, the story I learned about what it meant to be a Black person taught me two things: that I was less than human, a victim of America’s anti-Black violence, and in order to be seen as human, I had to be successful. In the context of Black history, that means showing that Black people are loved.

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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. Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation.

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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!”) Restorative justice, meanwhile, with its emphasis on community, empathy and perspective-taking, may make up for some of the shortcomings of traditional disciplinary action.

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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 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. But what is it, exactly?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Tenenbaum’s advice isn’t to get rid of traditional instruction but to use peer discussions to reinforce a lecture. The study, “ How effective is peer interaction in facilitating learning?

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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. school and university system, I wanted to find out how microaggressions shape the experiences of Asian American K-12 educators. Growing up in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

But are they any better than traditional schools, or other progressive teaching philosophies? The main problem is that you can’t randomly assign some students to Montessori schools and study how they do compared with students at traditional schools. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

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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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Jonathan Firth

JUNE 7, 2019

However, from the late 1960s onwards, researchers such as Gordon Bower and Allan Paivio began to promote its use as a study strategy, and explore the psychology behind it. Educational Psychology Review, 3 (3), 149-210. Woollett, K., Hippocampus, 16 (12), 1091-1101. Psychological Review, 76 (3), 241. Maguire, E.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Play is not divorced of learning,” said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, an author, professor of psychology at Temple University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who has studied child development and the role of play in learning for years. “It It is the natural way in which we learn.”. Sara Stevens teaches a lesson to her kindergarteners.

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Digital Promise

MAY 8, 2019

His research addresses the application of cognitive psychology to improve learning and memory. in Cognitive Psychology at Washington University in St. K., & Pashler, H. Educational Psychology Review, 24, 369-378. [ I think technology can absolutely be a boon for distributed practice. Sean Kang, Ph.D. , Cepeda, N.

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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 Finally, the approach breaks from traditional classrooms where students are expected to sit and listen. We watch the show and dissect it.”. This approach is dynamic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. For the next five years, Therapy Thursdays became a family tradition.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2016

Relay is a teacher preparation program founded in 2011 by three high-achieving charter school networks that were concerned about the quality of teachers coming out of traditional degree programs. Say you take a course called educational psychology, maybe it’s good, maybe it sucks,” he said. Under President Obama, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

For example, 23 percent of blacks and 18 percent of students with disabilities were suspended from high school during 2011-12 school year, compared with fewer than 7 percent of white students overall. ” has completed the peer-review process and is currently set for publication at The Journal of School Psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

That’s because Parker offers what may be the nation’s most ambitious and comprehensive take on multiage education in middle and high school, breaking grades 7 to 12 into three divisions, with each division blending two grades together. Sometimes she even has a precocious eighth-grader or two and struggling 11th-graders.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

The field of science is ever changing and advancing, but the fair sticks to fairly rigid, traditional rules. For starters, there’s a growing sense among some scientists and educators that many science fairs aren’t actually very good at teaching kids about, well, science.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. y Christmas, 12 percent of Sci Academy’s first graduates had either dropped out or transferred to a community college. psychology class. The air smelled familiar.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Now, several years later, after pursuing a degree in psychology and taking courses in child development, Foster is more educated about Montessori education and realizes little about the “Montessori garden” actually adhered to Montessori practice. “This woman was not interested in Montessori education,” Foster said on a recent afternoon.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

Lynch has spent the last 35 years as an advocate for reforming the traditional school experience to include some of the practices she learned during the first part of her career in alternative education. He described alternative schools as being leaders in “marrying the psychological with the educational.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The Orleans Parish School Board, which controlled all city schools before Hurricane Katrina, was responsible for a small number of high-performing traditional and charter schools. Noble Minds plans to rely less on philanthropy over time as it adds more grades and becomes a full K-8 school. You will find a way to make it happen”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

And finally, though many juvenile facilities focus almost solely on getting their students to pass high school equivalency tests, Domenici encouraged his students to become confident in their ability to learn and to earn the traditional class credits that they would need in order to return to high school upon release.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They described their roles in students’ lives as extending beyond those of traditional instructors, and most said they stepped into those roles willingly. The answer is probably not a traditional top-down intervention, says Kraft, or a simple policy shift. SCHOOLS AS OPEN SYSTEMS — OR CLOSED.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

As a case in point, peer-to-peer programs can be a source of culturally sensitive support when colleges ’ and K–12 schools ’ counseling staffs are overwhelmingly white. Tools like Nearpeer and Nod are a refreshing departure from traditional social media that more often exploit loneliness than combat it.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The manualized approach to professional education is not meant to replace the traditional approach. Arendt, K., & Thastum, M. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology , 7 (1), 68-80. Journal of School Psychology, 50(3), 379-401. Psychology and Aging , 35 (1), 41. Johnsen, D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! According to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Moving forward means dealing with the major problem that these math educators face: the traditional algebra-to-calculus pathway. “Moving forward means dealing with the major problem that these math educators face: the traditional algebra-to-calculus pathway.” Carnegie Math Pathways and the Charles A.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Led by senior volunteers, the retreat has become a spirit week tradition in this rural New Mexico county over the past eight years. percent of the 14,856 Youth Risk Behavior Survey respondents reported that they had “seriously considered suicide” in the past 12 months. I’m living to the best of my abilities.” In 2017, 17.2

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Credit: Eric Gay/ Associated Press Districts had until November 12, less than a month, to respond. Mary Woodard, president of the Texas Library Association She described “a huge environment of fear” among librarians who “are not even trusted to order a new alphabet book like ABC Cats for pre-K students.” This alarmed librarians.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Now a senior, Cristian is enrolled in four AP classes (Psychology, Biology, Computer Science, and Spanish) and two dual-credit classes with the local college (physics and calculus). School offices across the district were decorated for Christmas and holiday concerts were planned, many chock full of traditional Christmas carols.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Along the way, with Caleb under doctors’ care, the Agnews tried a variety of medications to help him with his psychological problems, together with family and individual therapy. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It Some of this helped.

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