The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Although some educators are familiar with this research, most of us are not. Department of Education, the “most important concrete and applicable principles to emerge from research on learning and memory.” It is time to know and do better. A 2019 survey of teachers uncovered some of these gaps. Scientists are trying. Brown, Henry L.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Research shows that fostering SEL improves students’ academic achievement by an average of 11 percentile points. In addition to investing in affordable wellness resources, schools and districts must help educators cultivate their own social and emotional competencies. There are different approaches.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2024

students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning losses. “At Unfortunately, data from the past two school years no longer support this conclusion. If you don’t show up to school, you’re not likely to catch up.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Research suggests that black students thrive when they have black teachers. 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

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. Unfortunately, research also suggests that purpose is rare.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Mississippi has been highlighted in a new report as one of ten states in the nation that has robust policies that encourage “healthy schools,” defined as those that fully support a student’s “academic, physical, emotional, and social well-being.”.

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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

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. And data from the U.S.

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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. Analyze the Task.

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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. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class.

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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

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. Credit: Image provided by Kodie Bates Researchers pointed out problems with the discrepancy model even before its use became prevalent in the U.S. The studies came just as the U.S.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Still, schools may need to rely on local district funding to keep SEL programs going when the federal grants expire. Experts, however, point to years of research linking SEL to academic success and other benefits as evidence for continued investment. Don’t go it alone. The videos were then embedded in the SEL curriculum.

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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

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. They’re behind,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

In recent years, cognitive scientists have done gobs of research on how making mistakes help us learn, much of it funded by the federal Institute for Education Science. Past research had shown that these signals relate to academic performance. Some findings make intuitive sense. Some are completely surprising. “He

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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. So, as we live through this pandemic and beyond, let’s place a permanent moratorium on traditional grades for the sake of the humanity in P-12 schools and higher education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

Some researchers are exploring one that might sound trivial but actually could be quite thorny: What should these computer-generated educational assistants look and sound like? He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones. One possible solution?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. Despite the victory, Lester was never taught to read, according to the KQED update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

Montessori schools have a distinguished record of placing the focus on a student’s overall development. I had the pleasure of teaching two sections of a research class through Loyola University Maryland’s Center for Montessori Education. Public school teachers should observe a high-fidelity Montessori classroom.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2017

As a researcher of neuroscience and a pianist myself, I understand that the mastering of this skill not only takes practice, but also requires complex coordination of many different brain regions. In 2012, our research group at the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California began a five-year study that did just that.

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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. Women now make up about 58 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Tahiv McGee, who graduated from North Star this spring and will attend Pomona College this fall, explains the research study he worked on at Rutgers-Newark. Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In a survey released in October by the American Institutes for Research, 73 percent of school districts said the pandemic had made it more challenging to accommodate students with disabilities. 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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In a majority of districts, students are spending some or all of their school days online. And they’re eating more junk food, according to research from Ireland and Italy. Public health experts here are worried about unhealthy eating too. Covid-era classes seem to be following the same trend, said Daum, who researches online PE.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. On a panel that I moderated recently, one of those students, high school senior Paige Cook, credited the internship for helping her decide what she wanted to do in college.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. psychology class.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. a research analyst for higher education at Ed Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sylvan Hills Middle School Assistant Principal Monica Blasingame, center, and Principal Artesza Portee, right, discuss “big life goals” with a student as part of a goal-setting exercise in Atlanta Public Schools. public schools. Screenshot of teacher dashboards from Atlanta Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This is the first incident of its kind coming from the school. But the same article also mentioned that in 2013, two teachers from Manhattan Public School 59 had incorporated the killing and whipping of slaves in a math lesson on subtraction and multiplication. Cummings’ slavery lesson wasn’t only cruel; it was redundant.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Morgan’s research demonstrates that even when children in the same schools display the same needs, white English-speaking children are more likely to receive the services that they need to excel. But her success was short-lived: She ended up back at Durham Public Schools in eighth grade.

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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. Research shows a Montessori education can affect a student’s achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Two years ago, Connecticut’s governor moved to recognize the work of public school paraprofessionals. It’s possible that psychological and bureaucratic barriers add to these hurdles: if paraprofessionals don’t see further education and upward mobility as possibilities, they may never make it into those roles.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

While SUNY’s and national enrollments appear to be stabilizing as of this past spring, researchers expect this to be a return to the pre-pandemic trend rather than a turnaround. Now, high school graduates in New York will have to actively turn down pursuing college.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

Because schools desegregated so slowly in New Orleans — by one grade each year — Tate’s struggles were shared to some degree by thousands of local black schoolchildren: Hers was the desegregation generation. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board decision. By 9:45 p.m. They wanted to make sure I was on target.”

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