The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Dominguez is part of a neighborhood activist group fighting to retake the abandoned school and turn it into a community arts and culture center. She has lots of ideas: tutoring services, a library, a theater, a kitchen, case managers, social workers. “It made me very sad to see the school closed.”. she said, smiling.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

Some 90 percent of students live in households that qualify for government assistance. It would be further validation of a shift in both school culture and expectations that many say was long overdue. We didn’t give them any extra tutoring,” he said. “We We invested in culture, relationships.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But it looked like the teenagers would have to do without the advantages sports participation could bring: The nonprofit that governs Louisiana’s high school sports won’t allow most of the Central American students to play. To join the team, a student had to stay for tutoring and couldn’t land in detention more than a handful of times.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

He and Gordon, who’d been tapped in June 2011 as interim CEO after serving for four years as chief academic officer, pulled together a coalition of philanthropists, nonprofit leaders, local government officials and others to support the newly named Cleveland Plan. Student outcomes improved.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation. Students spend the rest of their time at resource centers receiving in-person instruction or tutoring. Zaire Wallace, a senior at The Charter School of San Diego.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It doesn’t follow from that that more choice is always better,” said Barry Schwartz, professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College and the author of “The Paradox of Choice,” about the psychological ramifications of a supermarket culture that offers 175 kinds of salad dressings and 275 breakfast cereals.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

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. And a lot of times [my child] has tutoring. The homework gap isn’t new. People have to remember “the pandemic isn’t over,” she said. “To It’s social work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. We don’t have that culture of studying for [the SAT]. Department of Education says. said Tufts’ Jiménez.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Government had created pressure for accountability. But he said the reality is more students than ever are graduating in the toughest majors, thanks to better support, like tutoring. There’s really no culture of informed consent when it comes to educational technologies and higher education. The poster child.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

Increase students’ access to tutoring, after school activities and interventions to help address lost instructional time. Establish parent engagement teams with culturally competent family school liaisons to ensure families have a voice in their neighborhood schools. Boldly address opportunity and achievement gaps in PreK-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. She picked working at a McDonald’s.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

The dramatic reveal has become an increasingly common ritual at charter schools where college acceptance is both the goal and part of the culture. Tutors danced. On this spring day at Boston University “we celebrate seniors on their journey to college and life beyond!” dean of students Robert Hendricks exclaimed. Teachers clapped.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help. The culture was pretty toxic when we got here,” said Roark, who began at the school as a guidance counselor in 2008. “To The culture was pretty toxic when we got here. The school had fights in the hallways and tedium in the classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We have classroom tutors now. There’s just so much that’s been shaken up in our country, in our culture, in our education system. In the second year, you get a lot of time to do the governing. Our district has realized some of our challenges. They have put extra support in place to support us. Every day there are more adults.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She tutored other kids from public housing. Pierre, the student who left LSU for the Air Force, had a good job working in the executive branch of the federal government. Williams was “extraordinary,” Marcovitz said, deeply curious and capable of the kind of complex thinking not common in most high school freshmen.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

However, by April 2018, Nicaraguans’ frustrations with an increasingly dictatorial government led to demonstrations that endured for five days before they were brutally suppressed by President Daniel Ortega’s police and military. In time, Keyla felt comfortable enough with me to seek help outside the traditional tutoring role of the program.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

There’s also this rise of ESAs (education savings accounts) where you could pay for online classes or tutoring or tuition. Because I’ve always understood school choice as “this is government money that will follow the student to whatever they go to.” It’s very flexible. And that is one of the natural consequences of competition.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It starts with yoga and ends with soccer practice and after-school tutoring. Fugees Academy also helps celebrate students’ cultural identities by holding monthly potlucks and integrating books from different cultures into the curriculum (students are reading Middle Eastern and South Korean versions of Little Red Riding Hood, for example).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The island has faced corruption and mismanagement in local government, billions of dollars in debt and mass emigration that has caused a critical loss of professionals and essentially halved the island’s student population in 15 years, from almost 550,000 in 2006 to 276,413 in 2021. I’m very worried about their learning,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

At Match, the finish line won’t come till the end of May, when seniors reveal their college choices at a dramatic “signing day” ceremony before family members, counselors, tutors and nearly all the adults in their spacious and sunny school building. In its best form, the tutoring is tailored to what the student needs to be successful.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. The manager was given all the powers of the local governing board. Math and literacy tutors showed up once a week, or just once a month.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Later that year, after widespread school closures, Trump issued an executive order allowing states to use money from a federal poverty program to help low-income families pay for private schooling, homeschooling, special education services or tutoring. Vance, meanwhile, made education culture war issues central to his 2022 run for Senate.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz also required every state agency, including the department of education , to appoint tribal-state liaisons and formally consult with tribal governments. But Congress has never come close to meeting that goal, and today the federal government distributes only about 15 percent of the total cost of educating students with disabilities.

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