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Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I experienced a supportive environment for students, including a range of safety nets, personalized advising, ample financial resources and an individualized tutoring program. Like many first-generation low-income students (FGLI) , I began my education at my local community college, Indian River State College in Florida.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Unlike some after-school programs, Wisconsin Youth Company does not focus on academic tutoring or instruction. According to the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group for after-school programming , 7.8 For the next few hours, they are in school but they are also done learning for the day.

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MAY 10, 2021

The test-optional movement gathered steam in the 2000s as concerns mounted over the fact that wealthier students could hire tutors, take the tests multiple times and post higher scores. A small number of liberal arts colleges followed suit not only to foster diversity but also because it appealed to an anti-testing sensibility.

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JUNE 20, 2021

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 The key is to diagnose students individually and find out where tutors should focus their efforts. A lot of the gains from doing intervention happen in the first six weeks,” Barnett said.

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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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Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. 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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JUNE 27, 2020

But for grandparents raising grandchildren, that’s not possible, said Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. Critical Condition. The Students the Pandemic Hit Hardest.

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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.

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MARCH 21, 2022

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. Students who come only once a week for tutoring, for example, are unlikely to see gains. Without the fun, kids won’t come.

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MARCH 27, 2023

“We see that advanced math coursework is a huge predictor of college success, but this stuff is all foundational,” said Lakisha Young, founder and CEO of The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group focused on better supporting low-income students of color in Oakland.

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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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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. A tutor began coming to his home for a few hours a week, but Martinez says he learned very little. Depending on the district, suspended students can be taught through remote instruction or in person at an alternative school, a tutoring center or their home.

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APRIL 12, 2017

At Finch, those measures took the form of one-on-one instruction, tutoring, daily monitoring, a new third-grade teacher and smaller third-grade classes. This school year, the students repeating third grade are pulled out of class for 45 minutes every day to work with a reading tutor.

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MAY 19, 2024

The word just hasn’t gotten out about the ability to do this,” said Todd Ziebarth, a senior vice president of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Another 2015 study found that non-monetary rewards were useful in getting young kids to attend an after-school tutoring program. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance. The rewards appeared to motivate younger kids to put in more effort. But this was for a voluntary program.

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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.

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MARCH 1, 2022

So the family opted to hire a private tutor to work with the child. Sometimes districts put up hurdles to that effort — whether by accident or intent. For instance, one evaluator recommended Civitareale’s older son, then in third grade, receive a specialized reading program.

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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.

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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.).

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JULY 4, 2018

There are also tutoring centers and a program called Personal Achievement Through Help, or PATH, to keep black male students on track. They have all these safety nets — tutoring, advising,” said Camryn Davis, a TAMU-Texarkana sophomore majoring in biotechnology. “We “Not sure you’re on the right track for graduation?”

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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: Transfer students start getting more of the credits they’ve already earned.

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MAY 23, 2020

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. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Public Schools offer on-demand online tutoring sessions. of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education. Many teachers use “synchronous” classes, where they and students meet simultaneously on platforms like Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams. The Richmond (Va.)

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. Not only do advisers, tutors, career counselors and coaches reach out; even the student government is alerted, said Liz Rainey, executive director of student success.

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AUGUST 26, 2018

Low-income students “have extra needs but they’re attending the institutions least able to put extra resources into meeting those needs,” said Thompson, referring to such extra support as intensive advising and on-demand tutoring. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher. They have not spent a second thinking about what kind of environment they are recruiting people to,” says El-Mekki, who invokes Martin Luther King Jr.’s Yet her ACT score fell one point short of the minimum required to train for a teacher job.

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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They also can, and often do, circumvent the public system entirely by hiring private reading tutors or sending their children to private schools focused on reading remediation. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. And a lot of times [my child] has tutoring.

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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. Three missed meetings are grounds for expulsion. “We

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JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group. Student outcomes improved.

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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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APRIL 26, 2019

Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide. said Tufts’ Jiménez.

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