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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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