Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2019

At least 75 percent of public school parents, teachers, and the American public believe most students are capable of reaching high levels of educational achievement, according to a survey conducted by Langer Research Associates of New York for Digital Promise Global’s Learner Variability Project. Key findings from our survey.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline? Department of Justice expanded the Americans With Disabilities Act to include technology standards in public schools, colleges and universities. As a Principal, I Thought I Promoted Psychological Safety. By Daniel Mollenkamp In April, the U.S.

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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 program operates in partnership with public schools, private child care centers and other organizations.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. We need a national movement, across states, to bring love back into schools. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The state’s policies regarding nutrition environment and services, counseling, psychological and social services, and community engagement were rated “moderate.”. The state also scored well in health services, which include requiring preventive health screenings across grade levels.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Schools and districts must help educators foster their own social and emotional competencies. In Milwaukee Public Schools, teachers had access to biweekly virtual coaching to support the switch to remote learning. However, 7 in 10 of these same educators did not feel prepared to implement trauma-informed practices.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Supreme Court declared racially segregated public schools to be unconstitutional. Private “white academies” — also known as segregation academies — sprang up to preserve the advantages held by the previously white-only public schools. Next year will mark seven decades since the U.S.

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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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2015

This year, high school students use virtual days to work on short-term courses, which run from December 1 through March 1. These teacher-designed courses cover subjects not typically offered at the school – abnormal psychology and genealogy are among those offered this year – and are worth one-quarter credit.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2015

Angela Duckworth, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching 7th grade math in New York City public schools when she quickly noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students. By contrast, those with a fixed mindset believe a person’s most basic abilities are fixed traits.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Black teachers account for 27 percent of the state’s teacher workforce, according to a Mississippi Today report, but black students represent almost half of the students attending the state’s public schools. The gap in teacher representation is wide.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Nationwide, there is just one school psychologist for every 1,127 K-12 students, a ratio well below the 500 students to one psychologist recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists Bennett, the son of a school psychologist, said he feels drawn to the mental health field. But it kept pulling me back.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

The three-year-old program, now offered in six public schools (five in New York City and one in Los Angeles) is part of a movement within a movement. Kendall Cotton Bronk, associate professor of psychology, Claremont Graduate University. Most young people and even most adults don’t have a purpose in their life.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As part of a new program, every third grader in Albuquerque Public Schools spends a day at the Los Padillas Wildlife Sanctuary just outside the city. Research on the physical, psychological and academic benefits of outdoor learning for kids is well-established, and is now informing the development of climate education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Shareece DeLeon, a teacher at Impact Public School’s Salish Sea Elementary, accepts plastic food items from one of her students during a 90-minute block of play time. It’s not just play for play’s sake,” said Lauren Ellis, senior director of early learning at Impact Public Schools, though free play is also important, she added.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The number of students deemed to need special education services increased by nearly a million students over the last decade, and it now makes up 15 percent of all public school enrollments. Since the start of the pandemic, more than two-thirds of public schools have reported increases in students seeking mental health services.

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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

JUNE 17, 2021

She was not alone: A December report revealed that nearly one in five Nashville public school students was failing at least one class. One Nashville parent was told that her daughter with a disability was failing all her classes as a virtual learner. I believe this is wrong. How can we fail young people during a pandemic?

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

” Facilities Access When it comes to spaces like restrooms and locker rooms, Edwards says “Every major medical and psychological association would recommend that trans kids and gender-expansive kids access the facilities that match their gender identity.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

Every few days, I get a calendar notification reminding me of a musical event no longer happening for students in Metro Nashville Public Schools in Tennessee. Sarah Robinson is a former public school music educator. As I dismiss each notification, feelings of frustration and disappointment hit me like a one-two punch.

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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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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. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school? Reforming how the condition is defined and diagnosed could help many more children learn to read.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It has to be strategic, there has to be a plan to it,” said Stephanie Andrews, executive director of student and family support services at Tulsa Public Schools. High school students in his district were asked to create videos talking about their experience using goal setting or mindfulness practice.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In 2009 , California passed a law requiring that all college textbooks be available in electronic form by 2020; in 2011 , Florida lawmakers passed legislation requiring public schools to convert their textbooks to digital versions. Alexander , Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland and Lauren M. Patricia A.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

On any given day this summer, CUNY junior Nataly Toro goes through a rotating list of around 20 of the 300 recent New York public school system graduates she is being paid to mentor. Many coaches, like Toro, are graduates of the New York City public schools and understand what their younger counterparts are up against.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. If you don’t show up to school, you’re not likely to catch up. Deteriorating mental health is also a leading theory for school struggles. How am I going to factor?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Jill Barshay/ The Hechinger Report / The Hechinger Report For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math. Of course, students might not see it that way.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

Public school teachers should observe a high-fidelity Montessori classroom. The concepts that shape the approach are rooted in the ideas of Maria Montessori. This is possible by allowing children to have freedom within limits, and giving children increasing levels of choice in what they work on as they become increasingly independent.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. Juvenal Lopez, the executive director of talent at the Phoenix Union High School District. Credit: Brandon Sullivan for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

percent of all public school students, but about 39 percent of students suspended from school. The 2017 Brown Center Report on American Education: Race and school suspensions found that Black students lose up to four times more days of instruction to suspensions than their white peers. Lateness to school.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

We’ve been dreaming in the field of education that people could have their own individual tutors to help them learn,” says Mayer, who is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, noting that ChatGPT has renewed this push. “So One possible solution? Devising a “genderless” virtual voice.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Marvin Dunn, a former professor of psychology at Florida International University and a specialist in the state’s Black history, told the Daily Beast on Thursday that the latest African American studies ban “means an insult to me, it means an injury to me.” Here we go again?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The process of assessing students for special education can be lengthy and often requires a barrage of assessments including classroom observations, a psychological evaluation and academic tests. Boston Public Schools, for instance, began the school year with nearly 1,800 students waiting on assessments, school district officials say.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Gates was among the scores of high school students who accepted an invitation to visit Malcolm X College, a community college in Chicago, as part of a program run jointly with the Chicago Public Schools. The community college is trying to increase its enrollment of men.

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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!

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