Cultures Social Studies Tutoring 
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. As a former tutor, I served PreK-12th grade students who learned the very histories I had to reconstruct my mind to accept years later. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.
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.
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
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. Once again, the technology acts as a placeholder.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 16, 2020
This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Being in Africa and seeing the things that you have embraced as your culture in this place that you know far preceded it was powerful.”. Uwahnie Martinez (left), the owner of Palmento Grove Cultural Center in Belize, helps Frederick A.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 15, 2022
We have classroom tutors now. The school has lost a bunch of teachers, but three of my son’s core subject teachers — English, social studies and science — have all left since Christmas. There’s just so much that’s been shaken up in our country, in our culture, in our education system. Every day there are more adults.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Studies have found that teachers often perceive children with obesity as emotional, unmotivated, less competent and non-compliant. Weight bias is part of American culture, said Rebecca Puhl,deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health at the University of Connecticut, who has studied childhood obesity and bias.
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