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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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

AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. One high school math teacher told me that she thinks learning failed to recover and continued to deteriorate because schools didn’t rush to fill the gaps right away. How am I going to factor?

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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. And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. We don’t have to be theoretical about what we’re doing.

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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

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. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In class, students study all the familiar concepts of high school English, but they’re applying these concepts to a work they care about passionately. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. Her job is to keep them on track academically by helping them stay in school, choose the right classes, and plan for life after graduation.

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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. The state is creating new ways students can receive high school and college credits: through internships as well as through traditional career and technical programs.

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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

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. Classes became organized around student projects displayed in twice-annual “exhibitions” open to student families and the public.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2021

Now, new studies warn of the pandemic’s potentially “debilitating effects” on children’s psychological, developmental and educational progress as anxiety, depression and loneliness increased over the last year. Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

“Alternative schools opened to say, ‘Hey, not all students are the same,’ ” said JoEllen Lynch, executive director of Springpoint, an organization in New York City that specializes in redesigning schools. He described alternative schools as being leaders in “marrying the psychological with the educational.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

With 90 percent of New Orleans students now attending schools run by charters, New Orleanians have grown accustomed to hearing enthusiastic spiels from new school operators over the past 10 years. Schools like the Youth Study Center often fall short in serving students.

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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 30, 2018

Noble Minds is not the only school in New Orleans that has put a greater emphasis on serving all students, including those with disabilities, in recent years. The state-run Recovery School District governed most of the charter schools in New Orleans at the time. It’s overseen by the state school board.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

Recent research shows that WOW works: At a time when teen girls’ mental health is in crisis , a 2023 University of Chicago Education Lab randomized control trial found that WOW reduced PTSD symptoms among Chicago Public Schools participants by 22 percent and decreased their anxiety and depression. Only 5 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I’d spent the school year reporting about New Orleans, a city whose population is one-third white but whose public schools contained nearly all children of color, most of them black. Many of those schools were led by white principals and a fleet of white teachers. Photo: Casey Parks for The Hechinger Report.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The manualized approach to professional education is not meant to replace the traditional approach. So, we can apply this where it fits, like in public Montessori programs. But, it does not meet the needs of all students, particularly those with dyslexia or who are entering public school following a summer-based preparation program.

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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. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

That is, less school bullying might have had a cost: Fewer negative relationships can mean fewer positive ones, as well. Indeed, a 2020 survey from the American Psychological Association found that 81 percent of teenage students said they have been negatively impacted by school closures.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

In January, EveryLibrary, a group that tracks legislation that puts school and college librarians, higher ed faculty and museum professionals at risk of criminal prosecution, identified 44 bills in 14 states as “ legislation of concern ,” for the 2024 session. This climate has teachers and librarians feeling fearful, confused and stressed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs. There are children like Caleb and his GNETS classmates all over the country — with diagnoses including ADHD, bipolar disorder and, increasingly, autism.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2025

Students hear adults around them discuss what the incoming administration is saying about immigrants, and they're afraid, says Alejandra Vzquez Baur, director of the National Newcomer Network, a coalition seeking to improve educational access for newcomer students in K-12 public schools and a project of The Century Foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Both Trump and Vance have characterized immigrant children as being burdens on schools who are overcrowding classrooms and taxing teachers with their language needs. Multiple studies have documented the sweeping psychological, emotional, and financial toll that such operations have on children and their families.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The tsunami of laws and Executive Orders attacking public school curricula mobilize a range of doublespeak, from divisive concepts to race scapegoating to psychological stress; many include the admonition that teachers may not teach students that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist.

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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.” There’s nothing objectional. Here we go again?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. Data on the Florida Virtual School show a similar trend; in Utah, a stunningly low 6.15

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. That’s a social decision that values oil and gas extraction over the public good of public schools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Money is siphoned from traditional public schools and towards a diverse array of unregulated for-profit and private providers.

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