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Parents feared Tennessee’s new reading law would hold back thousands of students. That didn’t happen

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tennessee’s law was modeled after a much-praised literacy program in neighboring Mississippi that includes tutoring, improved literacy training for teachers and a retention policy for third graders who don’t pass its state test. Nearly 1,200 fourth grade students in the district are required to get tutoring interventions this year.

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Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Another provision allows students to move up a grade, as long as the school gives them tutoring for a full school year. Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. By the end of the tutoring sessions, 12 reached or exceeded grade level on their reading benchmark tests. It sounds complicated because it is.

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Remote learning a bust? Some families consider having their child repeat kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

In Virginia, where enrollment fell by 13 percent , researchers found equal declines among families of different socio-economic status. Schools that invest in one-on-one tutoring in the early grades could bring students up to grade level in a matter of weeks, he says. “A You can’t have one-size-fits all next year.”.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. From 2017-18 to 2021-22, districts with more economically disadvantaged students and Black and Latino students gave out more such suspensions per capita than their more affluent, whiter counterparts. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Hanging on an office door in Hawthorn Hall, for example, is a pastel-colored advertisement from Student Support Services inviting Latinx students to stop by for help with academic advising, tutoring and mentoring, book and laptop loan programs and financial literacy education. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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Six reasons you may not graduate on time

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. Some states’ figures are even higher. The process is overwhelming, with thousands of classes. And what if it’s full?

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How much will it take to reopen, catch up kids, and save public schooling long term?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

When we think about the amount of money and resources needed to navigate a state and federal economic crisis, the first package was not nearly enough,” he said. That could mean extending the school day or school year in a way that is cost effective, or “high-dosage” tutoring integrated within the school day and curriculum.

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Parents are panicking, giving up their careers and spending thousands of dollars on piecemeal solutions for the school year

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

She co-created a Facebook group for local families seeking to set up pods, and quickly discovered that many parents were looking for learning pods, which would be run by teachers or tutors and allow families to navigate distance learning. But now, when kids are at home, privileged parents are going to be able to hire tutors and teachers.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in the coming decades, politicians of both parties would respond to economic downturns by cutting higher education funding, causing tuition to rise. In response, in 2017, California’s community colleges began putting less-well-prepared students into credit-bearing introductory courses with extra tutoring.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. As Rand earned community service hours tutoring children, she wondered if teaching was in her future. Holmes senior Justice Grisby completes a review sheet on factors of production in her economics class.

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. It makes complete economic sense,” Lewis said. “The

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Parents feared Tennessee’s new reading law would hold back thousands of students. That didn’t happen

Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

Remote learning a bust? Some families consider having their child repeat kindergarten

In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

Six reasons you may not graduate on time

How much will it take to reopen, catch up kids, and save public schooling long term?

Parents are panicking, giving up their careers and spending thousands of dollars on piecemeal solutions for the school year

Is California saving higher education?

‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

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