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MAY 10, 2021

But researchers are finding that the test-optional policy isn’t substantially raising the share of low-income students or students of color at colleges that have tried it. Others were less selective and some were larger research universities with graduate schools, such as American University in Washington, D.C.,

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It is a research-based approach that experts say is essential for helping children — especially those who struggle — learn to read. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. By the end of the tutoring sessions, 12 reached or exceeded grade level on their reading benchmark tests.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

It’s the pig in the python,” said Steven Barnett, co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER). In Virginia, where enrollment fell by 13 percent , researchers found equal declines among families of different socio-economic status. Anna Shapiro, an early childhood researcher at the University of Virginia.

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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: Graphic courtesy of Schenectady City School District. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

But he learned Spanish and then English, staying after school for tutoring and moving on to honors and Advanced Placement classes. Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Our advisory teacher is supposed to be the one person who is making sure that you're getting the correct tutoring for all the subjects,” Ibarra says.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card. Mims has helped develop similar models in Florida and Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

But the research evidence for reaping academic or other social benefits from after-school programs isn’t strong. The Afterschool Alliance – an advocacy group – was instrumental in securing the 1 percent set aside for afterschool and making sure that after-school programs would qualify for learning loss.

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MARCH 27, 2023

That affects the pathways students pick in college: A smaller share of Black and Latino students earn degrees in a STEM field than in other degree programs, according to a recent Pew Research study. And that in turn affects people’s career choices. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Together with three other researchers at Harvard, UCLA and Stanford, she set up an elaborate experiment with more than 15,000 middle and high school students in California during the 2015-16 school year. at a March 2019 conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. Then the results started coming in.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

He says his attendance and grades improved after he received counseling, tutoring and medication to control his multiple behavior disorders. The consequences can extend beyond high school, researchers have found , with suspensions linked to lower college enrollment rates and increased involvement with the criminal justice system.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I took quality notes in class, worked tirelessly on problem sets and sought extra help from my professor and tutors. After scoring low on the original test, I had become determined to improve my performance. When the time had come to take the test again, I understood the material. I just needed more time.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Thirty-seven percent now transfer at least once in their college careers, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center , which tracks this; of those, nearly half switch schools more than once. All of this takes a toll on graduation rates. Cosumnes has 2,771 credit-bearing classes in 100 degree and certificate programs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When devising a definition of “reading disability” based on the population of nine- to 11-year-olds on the island, the researchers distinguished between poor readers who read at levels predicted by their IQs and those who did not, looking for evidence of dyslexia only in those in the latter group. The studies came just as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

That, in turn, contributes to the fact that more than a third of students who start college still haven’t earned degrees after six years, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports , often piling up loan debt with no payoff. Another: Employers are impatient for qualified graduates to hire.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

While the tutoring and on-the-run support that have replaced it may smooth their paths, at least one university president wonders whether future engineers will sufficiently master the calculus they need. Related: Embattled colleges focus on an obvious fix: helping students graduate on time.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

All the research suggests that this shift would have the most immediate and profound impact on closing the achievement gap.” So, Hampton taught herself how to teach phonics, and devoted much of her time to tutoring her students in reading. “As As soon as they learned to read, a lot of troubling behaviors disappeared,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

The proportion of Pell recipients who earned degrees within six years was lowest at for-profit institutions: 20 percent, the nonprofit education research group Ithaka S+R finds. That proposal was part of research underwritten by the Lumina Foundation, a funder of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.). Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And a slightly higher percentage of nonwhite teachers than white ones—45 percent vs. 42 percent—said that they were considering leaving their position last school year, researchers at the University of Arkansas’ College of Education & Health Professions found. identify as people of color, compared with more than half of students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Nobody knows the right path forward,” said Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education , a nonpartisan education research center in Seattle that has compiled an online database of coronavirus response plans provided by scores of districts across the country as a resource for other educators. The Richmond (Va.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

But finishing in four years matters, because research shows that the longer it takes, the less likely a student is to make it to graduation. A quarter of students drop out after four years, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Some states’ figures are even higher.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Cleveland is one of the poorest major cities in the country, and research shows that family income level predicts school achievement and career success. Schools can’t make up for lack of investment in the surrounding community on their own, say researchers. Still, the research on these efforts is mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. And a lot of times [my child] has tutoring.

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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. She qualifies for grants and tutoring from Metropolitan’s Welfare to Careers Project.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. And while struggling students still get extra academic help, such tutoring has been scaled back. “We should be spending more than any other state because we have more poverty — significantly more poverty.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

“K-12 schools are, in the majority of states, the largest portion of a state budget,” said Victoria Jackson, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research institute. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education. In December, another gave around $54 billion to public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The money, she said, pays for bilingual teachers for English-language learners, case managers for special education students and extra tutoring for struggling students. That leaves little for after-school clubs, additional teacher training, advanced electives or the full-time guidance counselor Burch would love to hire.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

million adults who have gone to college but never finished have children under age 18, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, or IWPR. “If More than a third of the 40.4 Student-parents are at the intersection of that.” There’s also new attention to the benefits for children of having parents who go to college.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” Peter, a math whiz, tutored her in pre-algebra; Mallory and Elise helped with her writing assignments. There’s a lot of support,” she said. He ended up with a B in the course.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

The findings “demonstrate more can be done to support the needs of these non-traditional students,” said Barrett Bogue, spokesman for the advocacy organization Student Veterans of America. Navy veteran, at the Veterans House at San Diego State University, where veterans can come and study, get tutoring, do laundry, play pool or just hang out.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

ver the course of a century, California built the country’s top-ranked public research university and its largest and most affordable community college system. 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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As Rand earned community service hours tutoring children, she wondered if teaching was in her future. When her English professor assigned a research paper, “the writing lab was my best friend,” she said. She was named “Ms. McClain” her senior year and dreamed of attending a historically black college, like her mother and grandmother.

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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. Hungerman’s own research, conducted in partnership with an economist at the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

Between 2013 and 2015, more than 56,000 students who took out federal loans to pay for Georgia’s four-year regional, state and research universities dropped out before graduating, as did 44,000 people at the mostly two-year state colleges and technical colleges. In fact, nothing has been done to restore HOPE to the pre-2011 levels.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

According to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data, nine of the ten states with the most rapid Hispanic growth are located below the Mason-Dixon Line. Extensive research shows significant cognitive benefits accrue to students who learn more than one language. They have found help from an unlikely source — the Sisters of St.

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