Advocacy Cultures Tutoring 
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. Why are you going to write up a child because he or she didn’t bring a pencil?
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math. “A
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 29, 2022
Wylie, who has trained in therapeutic crisis intervention, now works with kids in grades 6 to 12 who have been suspended from their home schools and are attending tutoring at the district’s Washington Irving Educational Center, where the diversion program is housed. Credit: Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Performing the Autopsy Proponents of the detracking effort see themselves as fighting against the tide of the countrys education system and, even more difficult, its culture. But their families have managed to give them a jump-start through additional after-school programs, tutors and other resources, he says.
ED Surge
MARCH 27, 2023
“We see that advanced math coursework is a huge predictor of college success, but this stuff is all foundational,” said Lakisha Young, founder and CEO of The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group focused on better supporting low-income students of color in Oakland. It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 5, 2022
Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.
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