Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When product developers at UPchieve, a nonprofit that connects students with free math tutoring powered by human volunteers, began evaluating AI tools to power a system for forecasting student performance, they expected to find serious problems with bias. Check out last week’s post here.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

And in the past, administrators at some colleges have replaced their services with all-encompassing tutoring centers or third party organizations, Wynn Perdue adds. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says. Johnson and her team train their tutors to teach students about how AI can be useful in the writing process.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Today, and for the last year or so, aspiring educators at American University are required to spend a minimum of 40 hours tutoring students in Washington, D.C., Research indicates that aspiring educators who get to practice teaching earlier in their training and more often are more likely to be effective, Sakimura says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Time spent finding materials is time not spent giving students feedback, tailoring existing lessons for students or giving students one-to-one tutoring help. Related: Education research, condensed. Many said that their existing materials weren’t connected to their students’ languages and cultures.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education. Some will keep tutoring, even if they are driven underground or are forced to take lower rates. But for some, the situation is still fraught.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year. Summer and after-school programming, tutoring, truancy intervention, teacher hiring and training, and improved data systems are all part of the solution.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Today’s blog explores how three grantees embraced a culture of learning around AI. For example, through a research partnership with the University of Toronto, the Puerto Rico Department of Education’s project implemented the Spanish version of the AI-powered personalized tutoring tool Khanmigo in two schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Lynn Fuchs, research professor at Vanderbilt University Covid exacerbated the nation’s problem with math achievement. There’s not as much research on math disorders or dyscalculia,” as there is on reading disabilities, said Karen Wilson, a clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in the assessment of children with learning differences.

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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. The researchers found that most of these solutions are short term, however, and will require more funding. Related: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Federal and state policymakers have since suggested various solutions — from increasing access to tutoring to boosting teacher pay. Research suggests that this is one of the top reasons why so many principals are exiting their jobs. Most of all, they set a school’s vision and culture.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

a research analyst for higher education at Ed Trust. Campus culture is a major factor in student success, research has found. Ashtabula regularly has more than a dozen tutors available, and can increase the number depending on need, said Carol Jones, coordinator of academic services.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this third post, we explore how Powerful Learning is collaborative and connected, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

But it has also added new ways beyond the one-time placement test for students to qualify for higher level math courses, and increased support — including in-school tutoring and longer class periods — for students who’ve shown promise in the subject. Research on the detracking debate presents a complicated picture.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Whether these executives are seeing dollar signs hovering over the heads of tykes or finally waking up to the wealth of research that exists on the importance of learning and development in the early years, there exists a kind of new energy in this corner of the education market. “I For starters, most 3-year-olds can’t read. Can he join?”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Our cries for content-rich curriculum firmly seated in how the brain learns to read and write, as evidenced by decades of scientific research, fell on deaf ears. They’ve had more than ample opportunity to prove their research. We are forced to send our children to schools where these faulty products and methods are imposed on them.

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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. I assumed we’d work around it, or better yet, incorporate it in meaningful ways.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a VR experience that lets students step into the virtual set of a final scene in the classic Orson Welles film “Citizen Kane.” 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

APRIL 12, 2021

More recent figures released in April by the Pew Research Center show that, in 2018, Black students earned 7 percent of STEM bachelor’s degrees. Black people hold 7 percent of jobs in these areas requiring bachelor’s degrees, the Pew Research Center reports. Related: Successfully replicating the Meyerhoff STEM scholars program.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As ninth graders, they are in the midst of a critical transition year, one that research shows plays a powerful role in their ability to succeed in high school and beyond. Schools shift from a culture of isolation to one of collective support and shared responsibility. Those students are now freshmen in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Closing opportunity gaps, especially among new majority populations, can be facilitated by the availability of well-trained, culturally responsive and resourced school counselors and college advisors. Counselors can become integral partners in driving equitable student outcomes and cultivating culturally responsive school systems.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Student-athletes from one of our city’s HBCUs help with tutoring. I started The Movement after relocating to Nashville to follow my boss, who had been hand-picked to strengthen the school culture at Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary and to elevate the school’s academic performance. We exercise.

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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. I was supposed to present my research at two different campuses, but that got cancelled. I can’t do my jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Legislators overwhelmingly backed the bill, which requires districts to provide students who failed state tests with 30 hours of focused tutoring or to be matched with highly-rated educators. That’s a daunting undertaking for local school officials who are struggling to find enough tutors or time within the school day to fulfill the mandate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

A retired math teacher who lived a half mile up the road from my family, he opened his home to me every Wednesday afternoon for tutoring. AARP’s Experience Corps , which engages older adults in tutoring elementary-aged children in high-need elementary schools, shows similar results for older children.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2022

percent decline last year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “We Still, MECA&D and the handful of other institutions that are making wholesale changes appear to be exceptions to that longstanding culture of inertia. You have to innovate your way off of this demographic cliff.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

And when researchers asked American parents of school-age children how important it is that their children do well in school, most gave it the highest level of importance; in fact, on average, Black, Latinx and Asian parents ranked it as more important than white parents did. but lower achievement in South Korea.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press One by one, they raced to a table where a tutor watched them scribble down the answers to multiplication questions before sprinting back to high-five their teammate. But she believes those gaps can be closed through culturally relevant and differentiated teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

But research has been mixed on whether it works. ST Math is produced by the nonprofit MIND Research Institute, but it’s quite expensive — around $15,000 per year, said Morial Principal Mark Burton. Supporters in New Orleans say that, so far, personalized learning has been transformative. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

This strategy allows more kids to start mid-elementary school with the reading skills they need to succeed and creates a more positive reading culture, with fewer students needing extra support and feeling stigmatized after teachers and parents label them as “behind.”. Matt Bardin is a tutor and the founder and CEO of Zinc Learning Labs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

After months of research, Treisman and his team found the answer: The Chinese students were working together in groups, in which they could help and bolster each other, while the black students were all working in isolation. The UMBC Meyerhoff Scholars Program, with only 200 students, has changed the culture of a campus of 11,000.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Students take a weekly sustainability class and participate in monthly field study days that send them into the community to conduct research on topics like land use, pollution and food equity. Buyer beware,” she advised. “I I would want to make sure that while there may be specialization, it’s not cutting off potential pathways.”

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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. Nova is willing to make the sacrifices for UMass Amherst because she believes the giant public research university has the better reputation. Teachers clapped.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

college undergraduates, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, and each year far more women are enrolling in higher education than men. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. Women now make up about 58 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Morgan’s research demonstrates that even when children in the same schools display the same needs, white English-speaking children are more likely to receive the services that they need to excel. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

As a state, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind,” said Alex Hermida, senior research analyst at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and chair of a state-led group that is tackling the challenge. Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. They are still behind .

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I work as a Field Studies Tutor (FST) for Rayburn, and go out twice a year or so to help students and teachers interpret the amazing landscape and culture of Iceland. One of the sessions that we had as a group of Field Study Tutors was from Dr. Rhian Meara. I spent two days last week at Rayburn Tours' HQ in Derby.

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