The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Schools are already spending big chunks of their approximately $190 billion in pandemic relief money on a range of strategies from after-school programs to cutting class size. Here’s a rundown of the most relevant research. Education researchers have a particular kind of tutoring in mind, what they call “high-dosage” tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. At East Orlo Avenue Elementary, in the East Providence School District, children switch between group activities and individualized assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The student who drew it after the disaster obsessively researched fire departments and found calm in creating the image of the truck as a symbol of safety. “I On the one-year anniversary of the fire, rather than sticking to the lesson plan, Marsters decided that students would watch Bob Ross videos and paint. “As But I can’t.”

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But assessing these skills has been a weak link in these efforts, according to the education researchers at the MIT Playful Journey Lab , which hopes to remedy that with “playful assessment” tools. As researchers, we didn’t know how much these tools could be embedded without disrupting the flow of making,” Kim said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Some nights, Duggan faced four hours of homework after a day of school and dancing that stretched into the evening, “I would just break down crying and saying, ‘I can’t do this anymore!’ ” she recalled. Her parents agreed. It puts a focus on building strong student-teacher relationships. That helps a lot if you need to ask a question.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

And forget a long-distance video call, one of the few ways kids in this remote district not far from the Arctic Circle can interact with students outside their own school building. That would have brought everything—email, online testing, cloud-based records systems and student research—to a halt. That’s not a given in rural Alaska.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Credit: Kershaw County School District. Online education and remote education are two very different things, said Steve Kossakoski, CEO of the New Hampshire-based Virtual Learning Academy Charter School , or VLACS, which has been hosting free webinars for educators seeking digital-learning guidance. on April 10, 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. Black students who have a black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate high school and go to college. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) is a federal funding program to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education. The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide. How Should I Use My ESSER Funds? Worthington Direct.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

She chose her grandmother’s alma mater Alcorn State, after a campus visit won her over, but in the first semester of her freshman year, she had to work harder to make up the material she missed in the Holmes public schools. When her English professor assigned a research paper, “the writing lab was my best friend,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In Capistrano Unified, a 44,000-student school district in southern California, the rate of homelessness among Latino students was roughly 24 percent in recent school years compared to about 2 percent among the rest of the student body. after watching her son leave for school, Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Researchers estimate that billions have been spent on these online tutoring services, but so far, there’s no good evidence that they are helping many students catch up. Some school systems have reported usage rates below 2 percent. But the researchers did not report those test scores.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ever since the pandemic shut down schools almost three years ago, I’ve been writing about tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. I often get questions about research on tutoring. How many schools are doing it? Researchers call it “high-dosage” or “high-impact” tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Research found that a $3.5 billion federal program meant to fix the nation’s lowest-performing schools — which focused disproportionately on high schools — did little to improve student achievement. Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

And children who have been educated about their bodies and who can touch them — research proves this one — are more likely to speak out about sexual abuse. Related: A little girl’s school helps her deal with trauma at home. FLASH was developed by the Family Planning Program of Public Health – Seattle and King County and includes $75.99

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. Teachers experimented, made their lessons more hands-on and followed the latest research. McDowell did not comment in an email on the district’s plans for English learners. Ezzell told me.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to “ frack” Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling. Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. The idea caught on. I’ll blow on it.

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