The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Meanwhile, cultural institutions are relaxing rules and paywalls to offer much-needed diversion, like free streaming of Broadway musicals and plays, operas, online art programs and free downloads of books from public libraries. Estrella Rodriguez, a student at East Los Angeles College who is pregnant.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

As dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Services at the University of New Mexico, I lead a team of over 120 faculty and staff members. Lead by example and nurture a culture of experimentation: Another vital strategy was exemplifying the change I wanted to see and fostering an environment that encouraged exploration.

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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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Tutoring Library Humanities Cultures 92

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

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. And a lot of times [my child] has tutoring. OAKLAND, Calif. We piecemealed as much as we could in March and April 2020,” she said.

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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

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

APRIL 18, 2022

Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. 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.

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Elementary School K-12 Economics Tutoring 123

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Students spend the rest of their time at resource centers receiving in-person instruction or tutoring. At-risk students receive support from teams of individuals who care, the schools have a strong culture of teacher-driven professional development and the result is a high level of student and staff engagement, they say.

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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. Places like the Heritage Foundation have literally published papers saying, you know, we should use culture war issues to win legislatively on choice, that we should attack public education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Two chairs by the fireplace sit ready for one-on-one tutoring, a cluster of ottomans nearby can accommodate a study group, and spaces to hunker down with a book or notes abound: a couch by the front door layered with pillows and blankets, a desk tucked into a corner, a fire table on the patio, and a backyard.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

He’s gotten assistance in the form of grants, tutoring and counseling from a nonprofit called Generation Hope that supports student parents and which he calls a “huge blessing.” It prepares men with children for high school equivalency tests and college by providing classes, tutoring, counseling and parenting seminars.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The culture was pretty toxic when we got here,” said Roark, who began at the school as a guidance counselor in 2008. “To The county has one small town with a public library, a pharmacy, a small grocery store and a few diners and fast-food joints along the outskirts. The culture was pretty toxic when we got here.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

But he said the reality is more students than ever are graduating in the toughest majors, thanks to better support, like tutoring. The ID records included when students entered classroom buildings, returned to the dorm at night, checked out library books or bought a coffee. Students aren’t aware,” Jones said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Victor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez, president of the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico The money has so far been used to pay for temporary teacher salary increases, hire hundreds of school mental health professionals and fund tutoring programs. A book in an elementary school library — El Apagón means The Blackout.

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Elementary School Tutoring Government Library 123

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Earlier this year, he signed a law barring libraries from banning books based on ideology; book bans nationwide have largely targeted LGTBQ+-themed books. 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.

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