The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Play is not divorced of learning,” said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, an author, professor of psychology at Temple University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who has studied child development and the role of play in learning for years. “It It is the natural way in which we learn.”. Sara Stevens teaches a lesson to her kindergarteners.

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Elementary School Tutoring Psychology Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Students spend the rest of their time at resource centers receiving in-person instruction or tutoring. The teenager is behind on credits, but hopes to catch up and graduate on time this school year.

Charter School 98

Charter School K-12 Tradition High School 98

ED Surge

MAY 4, 2023

Yet how we devised the traditional education system, they can’t be accepted the way they are. She took classes on campus and planned to major in psychology, but she didn’t really know what she wanted to do with her life. Yet Krip did so well that she became a chemistry tutor for other students. “I She was not sleeping well.

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Tutoring Psychology High School Research 123

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. She tutored other kids from public housing. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor.

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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Only 40 percent of older students with children manage to get degrees or certificates within six years, a lower proportion than their traditional-age classmates, and dropout rates are higher among older students with kids. Tutors, financial aid counselors and academic advisers are always available online, he said. 40% of U.S.

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Tradition Tutoring Economics Psychology 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass student Ivyierra Washington into a traditional Garifuna dress. Martinez pointed the students toward a hut filled with traditional Garifuna clothes, and Endiah slinked behind as the other girls ran toward a rack of gingham dresses. She tutored at two D.C. Two months later, she left New Orleans for Washington, D.C.

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Charter School High School Cultures Public School 93

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Even with plentiful low-skill jobs and with some immigrants running small businesses or finding better paid jobs as translators or tutors, poverty is still a reality among recent arrivals. School offices across the district were decorated for Christmas and holiday concerts were planned, many chock full of traditional Christmas carols.

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Middle School Cultures Tutoring High School 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In Nevada, in fact, parents can spend state education dollars any way they please — on private, public, online, part-time and full-time schools, on tutoring and extra books — through education savings accounts, which an advocate for them calls “the purest form of educational freedom.”.

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Charter School Sociology Tutoring Psychology 89

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2025

It's really hard right now to be someone of traditional college age; it's really hard for students to see the value of college in the ways that they've been told it's valuable, Gannon says. Students from higher-income households are more likely to have received extra support, such as in-person tutoring, before college. Norell says.

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Controversial Topics Political Science Tutoring Psychology 137

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

What we are reading All-charter no more: New Orleans opens its first traditional school in nearly two decades My colleague, Ariel Gilreath, reports on the opening of the first traditional school run by the New Orleans school district since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

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K-12 Tutoring Psychology Tradition 83