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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Jake Price, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington AI can serve as a tutor, giving a student who is floundering with a problem immediate feedback. Min Sun, a University of Washington education professor, thinks students should use ChatGPT like a personal tutor.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

Many found a way to continue their studies through informal tutoring centers, but those too have come under increased scrutiny as the government continues to crack down on women and girls’ access to education. I got four certificates of appreciation from different departments, one of which was from a cultural community.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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. Some students attend tutoring up to four days a week, at a cost of up to $1,000 a month.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2021

Loosening tight controls to give students more voice and autonomy is not a death knell for school culture but can deepen learning. It might look like wraparound supports, experienced teachers, school psychologists, mentoring groups, tutoring and individualized attention. What would that look like? It is too costly not to do so.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

His teacher referred him to Reading Quest , the nonprofit I run, where he could receive free, weekly personalized tutoring. Juan Pablo of Sante Fe, with his tutor Eli Feliciano, made great strides in reading during the spring and summer. Look for books that honor and celebrate your child’s culture and language but don’t push it.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Medicine and nursing programs have been natural fits, but some in the humanities are experimenting too, such as in architecture and film. Similar systems could work for embedded tutoring, health and wellness and advising, says Roeger of Elgin Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

The school is one of a number of colleges and universities that are standing out for their humane approaches to the coronavirus. She needs the laptop for her job as an online math tutor, a much-needed source of revenue for all of them, and to finish the semester and transfer to a four-year college in the fall.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The culture has changed tremendously,” said Pastchal-Smith. “We Leave this field empty if you're human: A focus on student and teacher attendance. Increasing time for remediation and tutoring. It also expanded its before-school, after-school, and in-school tutoring services. We got the job done working together as a team.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

Never mind forcing your 16-year-old to build homes in Costa Rica, hiring a tutor for $500 an hour, or urging your child to join another traveling soccer team. Some of the students from super-rich families might not even have the language skills or cultural competencies to take part in campus life.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Faculty should want to change the culture of their required courses; they should want to work in the best departments with bleeding-edge science — and undergraduate students are vital to this goal. Making this change will maintain a culture of excellence while giving all students an alternate pathway to success.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Projects include making animations, creating statistical databases of favorite sports teams and designing programs that can identify pneumonia in scans of human lungs. It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods. Some students have started businesses, while others have designed apps or built robots.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

Undoubtedly many senior and pastoral leaders up and down the country are appropriately preparing to address this summer of unrest, rioting and racism via assemblies and tutor times. Grosvenor (2000, p.157), So, teachers will need to face this contemporary experience of race and migration head on.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Many had seen their schooling interrupted by the chaos back home; some had experienced gang violence or human trafficking. Denying undocumented students the right to participate in activities contradicts everything we know about the crucial task of building a school culture where every student feels known and valued.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Since making that decision, Burns has changed course and is now pursuing a high school equivalency degree, with tutoring help from the Durham Literacy Center. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Ben Newmark

JANUARY 26, 2024

This is probably because the existence of a diversity of learning styles is a view held by much of society, and the claim humans learn in very different ways is often repeated as fact even though there isn’t strong evidence it is true.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nicole Molière entered a classroom at Harriet Tubman Charter School after she was selected to be part of an innovative local teacher training residency that aims to put excellent — and culturally competent — teachers into high-poverty schools. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. You shut kids down when you shame them.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

School district leaders there, many of whom started their careers in small-town classrooms, now grapple with big-city problems: large class sizes, stretched budgets, crowded school buildings and too few staff, especially those with the cultural and language skills to serve this region’s diversifying student base.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. Early literacy instruction was hurt so much by the pandemic that schools need to think beyond recovery, said Susan Lambert, chief academic officer of elementary humanities at Amplify Education Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

A human would likely never spot such complex patterns. The human element. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need. s “Diversity in Western Culture” requirement and the state-mandated writing requirement. The process is overwhelming, with thousands of classes. NO SOCIAL LIFE.

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Ben Newmark

JANUARY 31, 2024

This is probably because the existence of a diversity of learning styles is a view now held by much of society, and the claim humans learn in very different ways is often repeated as fact even though there isn’t strong evidence it is true. We are lucky, I know. This protects us from the SEND system which is failing everywhere.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

When they arrive on campus, college culture also makes a difference to the number of black and Hispanic students pursuing STEM degrees Experts and students say colleges and universities, especially STEM research institutions, aren’t doing enough to ensure that students of color don’t switch majors or drop out entirely. “The

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The human brain isn’t wired to read. “This is the most studied aspect of human learning.” That’s because human beings didn’t invent written language until relatively recently in human history, just a few thousand years ago. Writing is a code humans invented to represent speech sounds.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. We need human connection to develop, and schools are integral to growing those abilities in every child.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For example, if you're looking at a discussion forum, and you want to mark posts as on topic or off topic, says Pardos, it previously took much more time and effort to have a human researcher follow a rubric to tag such posts, or to train an older type of computer system to classify the material.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

After the the Equal Protection Project in October challenged a BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development, the description was revised to say that while created “with BIPOC students in mind,” it “is open to mentors and mentees of all races, ethnicities, and national origins.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

In the window of a Morton Catholic outreach center, a sign in both Spanish and English seeks recruits: “Hang live birds for processing in a humane manner. And it encourages teachers to connect whatever content they are teaching to the culture and traditions of ELL students. Hang 26 live birds per minute for slaughter.”. from Guatemala.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

His campaign website says he plans to reverse any gender-affirming care policies implemented by President Joe Biden, who signed an executive order in 2022 encouraging the Departments of Education and of Health and Human Services to expand access to health care and gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

She has spoken out about the mental health toll of trauma, including from poverty, and the need for more resources and “culturally competent” mental health providers. Educating Early Read comprehensive coverage of young learners with Hechinger’s biweekly Early Childhood newsletter.

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