The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

In some school districts, a specific diagnosis — and even the first-hand testimony of a neuropsychologist — can be crucial for accessing the best services. Those can range from occupational and speech therapy to small group time with a teacher to a publicly funded spot in a specialized private school.

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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. If diagnosis and help still remain elusive, they can pay for private neuropsychological exams , which can cost thousands of dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Williams was “extraordinary,” Marcovitz said, deeply curious and capable of the kind of complex thinking not common in most high school freshmen. She trawled the dictionary for new words and spent school bus rides proofreading friends’ papers. She tutored other kids from public housing. psychology class.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s. said Tufts’ Jiménez.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math. Yet another explanation is a psychological one. Catholic school students tend to be wealthier; their families can afford private school tuition.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. Buck had earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Dublin the year before the ban. She’d never taken the ACT, and she hadn’t studied math since Marilyn Buck tutored her inside the prison more than two decades earlier.

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Education Psychology High School Sociology 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Under such plans, the funding for a course taken by an individual student goes to the school or online company offering the course, often away from the student’s local district. Thanks to a relatively new state policy, all spring Clarke went to the school library during second period for an online sociology class. “It

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