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PROOF POINTS: Many schools are buying on-demand tutoring but a study finds that few students are using it

The Hechinger Report

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly. The tutoring was free to students no matter how much they used it.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy has developed tools to analyze social studies curricula and is currently reviewing how much knowledge the Baltimore and Miami-Dade schools are helping children learn. who started kindergarten in 2011.

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With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’

The Hechinger Report

Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. Only 42 percent of its students come from economically disadvantaged households, compared to 94 percent of Wilson students. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before.

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

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A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. Department of Education defines as “doubled up.”.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools keep buying online drop-in tutoring. The research doesn’t support it

The Hechinger Report

Some school systems have reported usage rates below 2 percent. Not even the most highly regarded and expensive tutoring programs using professional tutors who are following clear lesson plans achieve this. On-demand tutoring can appear to be an economical option. But how real was this progress? In Fairfax County, Va.,

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Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

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It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. She uses the New York Times lesson guides, the U.S.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. Holmes senior Justice Grisby completes a review sheet on factors of production in her economics class. He views the recent opening of a charter school in the Mississippi Delta as a promising path forward.