The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The Schenectady district fortified its five-year-old diversion program in 2021 when it started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems after they returned to in-person learning. Credit: Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. There was a shift in culture and in school. I have been in California ever since.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. These students are part of a summer program run by nonprofit School Connect WA, designed to help them catch up on math and literacy skills they lost during the pandemic.

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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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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. Even after her daughter received a diagnosis, Jackson felt the girl’s school wasn’t supporting her enough.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Before, out-of-school suspension risked academic setback for students, says Dr. Robinson, since it was sometimes logistically difficult to arrange tutors. Related: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring. This will be part of our Murray culture now,” says Superintendent Jennifer Covington.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Ryan Ren, 14, loves the soccer fields around his middle school in Arcadia, California. But Ryan, now a student at Dana Middle School, hasn’t been to Guangzhou in a while. During that same time period, the number of F-1 visas for Taiwanese students at private schools dropped slightly.) ARCADIA, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2017

Middle school students at Summit Denali work with a teacher in a small group. A California-born charter school network is starting a new program to home-grow teachers rooted in their approach to education. Among the first teaching residents is Janine Peñafort, herself a graduate of Summit Public Schools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The school put on a festival to fundraise for medical bills resulting from his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. struggles with math instruction, there’s interest in cultural perceptions about who possesses strong math abilities. But within a short span, Holifield would be dead.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy" by Gholnescar Muhammad called for teachers to redesign their learning plans by looking to the literary practices of people I’d never heard of.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Collaborative learning thrives in the metaverse , fostering teamwork and cross-cultural communication as students from different locations collaborate on projects. AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

When it was time for Kelly Ragas to choose a middle school for her son three years ago, John Q. Adams was certainly the most convenient option: She worked as its school secretary and already had a child there. Kelly Ragas, school secretary and parent, John Q. Adams Middle School. Adams Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM RESERVATION — Fourteen-year-old Roger Tinoco-Wheeler jumped at the chance to be back with friends twice a week at his Port Angeles middle school in January. A tutor there helped raise his math grade from an F to a B in just a few weeks, and shares his love of anime.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

“It made me very sad to see the school closed.”. Dominguez is part of a neighborhood activist group fighting to retake the abandoned school and turn it into a community arts and culture center. In 2009 Rossana Rodríguez-Sánchez was a middle school theater teacher in Puerto Rico. It was investment.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Starting when he was in middle school, I could have taken a stronger role in overseeing his schoolwork by editing his papers, re-teaching certain subjects and hiring tutors in others. In high school, we could have hired one-on-one tutors to prepare him for standardized tests.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. The diagnoses should have triggered extra supports at school, but Burns said that much-needed help never materialized. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. — Cleveland native Toni McWilliams didn’t feel like she was putting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration to good use working as an administrative secretary for a middle school in her hometown. The job, which paid around $19,000, barely brought in enough money to support her two young daughters.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

It really didn't hit me until probably middle school. But in middle school, it was around 2014, when there were a lot of newcomer students who didn't understand English. I was stuck on the idea for probably the second half of my senior year of high school. Was there a specific moment or a story? I actually did.

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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. ” Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools. “A

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

So did working with them during their tutoring periods. Cultural and social relevance. Our school has committed itself to becoming a culturally inclusive organization. Lincoln Smith is the music director at Veritas Preparatory Charter School , a public middle school in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Some of these “grow your own” programs, like Reach’s, recruit school employees who don’t have college degrees or degrees in education, while others focus on retired professionals, military veterans , college students , and even K12 students , with some starting as young as middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town. Williams was “extraordinary,” Marcovitz said, deeply curious and capable of the kind of complex thinking not common in most high school freshmen. I struggled with that.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass High School in New Orleans, wanted her students to have the same transformative experience she did on a high school trip to Ghana. This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Welcome to our cultural island,” Martinez said. Vincent in the mid-1600s.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

The district will be holding an expanded summer school this year and is investing in mental health counselors and early literacy. . Katina Harris , middle school English teacher and president of the local teachers’ union. We have classroom tutors now. Orion Salazar, graduating eighth grader, Taos Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

He’d been a middle school and high school teacher for years, and he had students who came across words they’d never seen before and had no idea how to sound them out. Seidenberg knows of a child who was struggling so much with reading that her mother paid for a private tutor. Emily Hanford | APM Reports.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

In Alexandria, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology scrapped its entrance exam and is conducting a “ holistic review ” of applicants based on their GPAs, essays and other factors. School culture affects whether students apply and decide to attend, and those decisions affect school culture, she found.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Schools and districts pay for extra services like teacher training or printed versions of their digital lessons. The nonprofit’s curriculum is also part of statewide tutoring programs in Tennessee and Texas. We could create a culture around mathematics where mistakes are magic because mistakes are definitely how you learn.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2021

We do have cultures that are not willing to discuss it, and that’s OK,” she said. “We You need resources, but in addition, the culture is what has changed,” Aiello said. “We through extended learning time, tutoring, and counselors), wherever they are learning,” states President Biden’s announcement of the American Rescue Plan.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

When Stephanie spoke up once in middle school, a teacher told her, “I can’t put you anywhere else because you’re going to block other students.” “I was like, ‘Do you not like me or something?” she recalled. She felt invisible. They would sit me in the back. I couldn’t see the board,” she 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

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It was founded on the belief that these learners need more focused attention than they often receive in traditional public schools, and that they need to go back to basics to learn English. The school also places an emphasis on helping students overcome trauma they may have faced on their journey to the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

He was glad he had something from home as he walked alone into North Middle School to start eighth grade in his new hometown of Sioux City, Iowa. That meant Cristian started his first day of school in America without a hug from his mom or a reassuring smile from his dad. Nor did he walk into school with his brother.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2025

And then they stayed on the computer her first year of middle school, in sixth grade. Were really focused on student climate and culture and behavior, because were continuing to see behavior since Covid. We ended up in the hospital; it was terrible. They went back in person in seventh grade, and that wasnt great either.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

Not long after the district consolidation legislation, Drew’s high school was closed. “It It felt as though we were losing part of our identity,” said Maria Thigpen, a math teacher at Drew Hunter Middle School. “It It just was a big change, was having to lose a school that was our tradition.”. Toney used new books.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Maria, 13, left rear, is a student at Morton Middle School. Matias’s daughter Maria, a student at Morton Middle School, grew up in Mississippi and speaks English with a southern drawl. “I The Tupelo School District, in the northwest corner of the state, has found the approach to be effective. Photo: Ben Stocking.

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