Advocacy Social Studies Tutoring 
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. Related: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR. But the move came with a bevy of supports.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 5, 2022
Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 6, 2016
When Hispanic students first began attending schools in Mississippi, many school districts refused to enroll them if they didn’t have immigration papers, said Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, or MIRA, a nonprofit advocacy group. They have found help from an unlikely source — the Sisters of St.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. Raised by educators in this tribal village at the base of the Grand Canyon, she started kindergarten a little ahead of her peers.
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