The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Guadalupe Hernandez, 13, argues being suspended for missing class did little to motivate him to regularly attend school. He says his attendance and grades improved after he received counseling, tutoring and medication to control his multiple behavior disorders. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR.

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Tutoring High School Middle School Elementary School 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

States oversee the spending of a smaller $12 billion slice of this money and the law expressly requires them to spend 1 percent of it, or $120 million, on after-school programs. Another 5 percent of the state money is to be spent on overcoming learning loss, which can also be used on after-school programs.

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Museum Tutoring Advocacy Elementary School 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility. Seaver notes her appreciation for a recently rolled out virtual tutoring program.).

Elementary School 144

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

“We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship. Moises began skipping school. I should have a master’s by now,” she said.

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Library Tutoring Government K-12 96

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. In Mississippi, she said, there is debate about how much more resources schools require, but few dispute that there is a need. “We Brown plans to study elementary education with a focus on middle schools.

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K-12 Elementary School Advocacy Global Connections 73

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Dawn Lineberry, a sixth grade math teacher at Jackson Middle School in Guilford County, North Carolina, noticed that some of her students were struggling with long division. Principal Angela McNeill of Eastern Guilford Middle School said that students had lost ground in multiplication, division and problem solving.

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Middle School K-12 High School 141

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The Schenectady district fortified its five-year-old diversion program in 2021 when it started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems after they returned to in-person learning. Credit: Graphic courtesy of Schenectady City School District. “We

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Tutoring Middle School High School Advocacy 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

So, Hampton taught herself how to teach phonics, and devoted much of her time to tutoring her students in reading. “As We really picked up steam when the organizations joined forces,” said Diane Cooper-Gould, a founder and advocacy co-chair of the Special Education PTA and a parent of a student with dyslexia. Seventh grade was pivotal.

High School 145

High School Elementary School Public School Social Justice 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It also includes two highly competitive early college high schools, Bard Manhattan and Bard Queens , and two newer schools, Millennium Brooklyn and the NYC iSchool, both of which screen students based on middle school grades and test scores.

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High School Leadership Tutoring Public School 75

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

But even with online learning plans, school districts around the country could face an “unprecedented historic academic regression” unless they do more, he said. To stave off this learning loss, Miami-Dade is adding summer sessions and working to identify vulnerable kids and pair them with virtual tutors and mentors, among other steps.

Charter School 130

Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 130

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Maria, 13, left rear, is a student at Morton Middle School. Matias’s daughter Maria, a student at Morton Middle School, grew up in Mississippi and speaks English with a southern drawl. “I Francis of Dubuque, a group of nuns from Iowa who operate a tutoring center in town. The twin 3-year-olds are Lucia and Yohana.

Elementary School 99

Elementary School K-12 Teaching Middle School 99

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2025

School closures triggered anger that led to the rise of parent groups including Moms for Liberty. And then they stayed on the computer her first year of middle school, in sixth grade. Focusing on that self-advocacy component, that is crucial for that population. The pandemic left other marks too.

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Education High School K-12 Advocacy 116