The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Psychology professor Daniel Willingham and middle school teacher Paul Bruno, working with the organization Deans for Impact, summarized these concepts in a concise 2015 report, “ The Science of Learning.” The 2014 bestseller “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning,” by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. Yet another explanation is a psychological one. The isolation may have stunted psychological development and that ultimately affected motivation, study skills and the ability to delay gratification – all necessary to excel in math.

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ED Surge

JUNE 11, 2024

All this year, Arensberg walked the halls of the same high school building and ate in the same cafeteria as before, but now most of her classes earned her college credit, and if she stays on track, she’ll get an associate degree at the same time she receives her high school diploma. How is the program going?

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

To help build the program, junior academies were created at the middle school to spark interest and function as a feeder pipeline. Below are some pictures of makerspaces at New Milford High School and Mt. Olive Middle School in New Jersey. Educational psychology: Developing learners (5th ed.). Ormrod, J.E.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. That can especially be the case for students who are racial minorities. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the ideas based on your research findings?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. The Hechinger Report is an independent news organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University, but has no relationship with the middle school or the researchers involved in the study. )

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

So Holstein, along with two colleagues, set up an unusual middle school experiment in the Pittsburgh area. Student psychology appears to be at play. A longer study would be needed to see if the psychological trick persists. What Holstein wants is for the data itself to be useful rather than the psychology of surveillance.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Which is why a child who plays sports at school, or a kid that's in a debate team with a caring educator, will do better in their academics than someone who is isolated from that.” Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

A study of 2,500 middle school students finds that the acquisition of scientific reasoning skills produces stronger learning gains. A large study on teaching science to middle school students was published afterwards and it adds more nuance to this debate between critical thinking skills and content knowledge.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Something that was a really common thread was older students who said they had the exact same experience in middle school or high school, where for 20 minutes, they thought they were dying, and they were texting their goodbyes to their parents, and then it turned out to be just a drill,” she says.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But schools are stretched thin for mental health staff, with as many as 100,000 more mental health professionals needed around the country. A school district in Virginia even constructed a middle school building with extra glass in the hopes that more natural light will serve as a palliative.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

We weren’t surprised,” said Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Georgia, and one of the authors of the study , which encompassed 458 children. The pre-K environment may help support long-term success in math, according to a new study of Georgia’s pre-K program.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

One widely used program called CHAMPS was recently tested in a study involving more than 100 teachers and almost 1,500 middle-school students in a randomized controlled trial — the kind of gold-standard experiment that is common in medicine but not in education. The experiment took place in two St. “As

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Mayer ranks as the most productive educational psychologist in the world by the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology, and he has a highly cited theory of multimedia learning. The study took place with about 100 middle school students taking a brief “virtual field trip” to learn about climate science.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. Not in fifth grade, but years later, when I was in middle school and high school, I did meet students who were just learning English as their second language. I’ve wanted to go into the teaching profession ever since then.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. As Bronx middle school teacher Roxanne Leak put it during an interview, “It’s unfortunate. Teachers are leaving. I need to do the same.'"

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ED Surge

JULY 29, 2024

When I went to college, right out of high school, I got my degree in psychology and knew I wanted to do something in that realm, but circumstances didn't allow for that for quite some time. Now we're in elementary schools, we're in middle schools, we're in high schools. I've always been a helper by nature.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. Growing up, once we left school at the end of the day, it was over.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

class of the school year, actually their last P.E. class as a middle school student, Esme had pursued Eduardo across campus with a set of classroom scissors, sharp end out. teacher to allow—quickly descended into a breach of each and every tenet of our school’s Core Values.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Dawn Lineberry, a sixth grade math teacher at Jackson Middle School in Guilford County, North Carolina, noticed that some of her students were struggling with long division. Principal Angela McNeill of Eastern Guilford Middle School said that students had lost ground in multiplication, division and problem solving.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

” Rapid guessing happens less in math than in reading, but boys increase their rapid guessing in the middle school years. For teachers and schools, rapid guessing makes it harder to know what students are really learning in school. The field of psychology has developed several theories. Steven Wise/NWEA.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2023

More than a decade after earning his bachelor’s degree in psychology, Davenport is a student once again, pursuing his license to become a high school special education teacher. I still didn't really know what I wanted to do, but psychology definitely grabbed my attention. One of our kids attends the school that I work at.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared. Kathryn Boucher is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Indianapolis.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines competition as “any performance situation structured in such a way that success depends on performing better than others.” In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. That was too hard to bear.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

So now I get it.” – Middle school teacher, New Jersey. Contemporary Educational Psychology , 54, 125-138. … And now I know why because he’s probably at home taking care of two children. Lozada, F. T., & Sims, C. Preservice teachers’ racialized emotion recognition, anger bias, and hostility attributions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

. “Grit is probably not where schools should be spending their money and time,” he said, “because it’s not strongly related to academic success and because it’s unlikely to respond well to intervention.” “By definition, grit is passion for something that takes a long time to complete and perseverance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

“Teachers are no more biased than other people, but also no less biased,” said Russell Skiba, a professor in the school psychology program at Indiana University and director of its Equity Project. Race is the much more important predictor of whether a kid gets suspended rather than poverty.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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,” said Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College who researches the mental health impacts of natural disasters on children. Arnett, a public school in Westlake.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

And even if adults try to hide it, that stress trickles down to children and affects how they do academically, psychologically and emotionally. Lisa Sanetti, a professor of educational psychology at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, said recent research shows adult stress affects children’s bodies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

For a moment, I picture myself in an alternate universe and think, today is the day the chamber choir is performing as part of the Mayor’s address — or the ukulele donation is getting delivered to the elementary school , or the guest artist-in-residence is arriving at the middle school rock band classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

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. Unfortunately, research also suggests that purpose is rare.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Students participate in a restorative circle, a practice that’s part of a movement away from harsh discipline in schools. 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!”)

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to Diane Hughes, a professor of applied psychology at New York University, “It’s well established that there’s no biological basis for race.” No person is born with hate and bias toward someone that looks or talks or acts different from them. These behaviors and beliefs are learned, and they can be unlearned, too.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

She said having someone at school who could help was “really, really important.” Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

“If your goal is self-actualization for the child, and you want them to discover what they’re good at, then personalizing learning sounds like it would be really wonderful,” said Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies how cognitive psychology applies to schooling.

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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. American Psychological Association. ⁷ Critical race and education scholars like Daniel G. There is a way we can connect."

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