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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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Traditional teaching uses class time to introduce students to concepts, which they then engage with on their own through homework. Similar systems could work for embedded tutoring, health and wellness and advising, says Roeger of Elgin Community College.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

million , and the company has shed other assets—including its popular tutoring business, TutorMe, which it sold to GoGuardian for $55 million in May. Shirky, of NYU, says that public universities have cultures in place that prevent them from focusing on profits. Zovio’s situation is in part unique. But ITT Technical Institute, Inc.,

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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.” College is geared more toward the traditional student,” he said. Not for nontraditional students like myself.”. The program also provides weekly stipends.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2022

Demand for traditional arts and crafts majors has fallen nationwide, according to the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, while interest in game design and animation have soared; where 30 percent of MECA&D’s students 10 years ago majored in design, now 60 percent do, college data show. I don’t like a huge campus.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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. We must ensure that their portrayals accurately celebrate their past and present influence.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. For the next five years, Therapy Thursdays became a family tradition. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. Adrienne Hudson speaks to fellow educators during the RISE Teacher’s Night Out at the Crossroads Cultural Arts Center in Clarksdale, Mississippi last December.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

The UMBC Meyerhoff Scholars Program, with only 200 students, has changed the culture of a campus of 11,000. Michael Summers, a professor of biochemistry at UMBC who is connected to the Meyerhoff program, says he is astounded that a program with only 200 students has been able to change the culture of a campus of 11,000 undergraduates.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Sweatshirts emblazoned with the 43 college choices that students would announce during the beloved pep-rally tradition known as “signing day” remained folded neatly beneath chairs. The dramatic reveal has become an increasingly common ritual at charter schools where college acceptance is both the goal and part of the culture.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods. While Code Next’s classes don’t necessarily rely on traditional mathematics, some parents wonder what benefit comes to students for whom higher education may seem unobtainable. “It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Students spend the rest of their time at resource centers receiving in-person instruction or tutoring. The teenager is behind on credits, but hopes to catch up and graduate on time this school year.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. Between 2012 and 2015, more than two thirds of students in the accelerated developmental education model passed their college composition classes, compared to fewer than half in the traditional sequence. They are still behind .

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

An unstable workforce also affects the school culture, said Pipes: “Once we have people here that are years and years and years in, we know how things are run.” Data suggests not having qualified teachers can worsen student achievement and increase costs for districts. She takes her online classes at night or on weekends.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Her mom said Tye’s school, McDonogh 35 Senior High School, wasn’t giving her the academic support she needed to improve her score, so Mansion had to go elsewhere for help — taking Tye to programs at the local university, and paying for private tutoring. “We It was one of the last remaining traditional public schools in the city.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

They’re adding more faculty who reflect the school’s increasing diversity, introducing cultural programming and establishing counseling and mentoring programs to help Latinx students overcome stubborn academic resource gaps. In response, some universities are starting to cater to their growing Latinx populations.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They’re members of City Year, a nonprofit partner of AmeriCorps that recruits college-age members from across the country to serve as tutors and mentors in high-poverty urban schools. The change in the school culture since the Diplomas Now partnership began in 2013 is palpable, marked by rising expectations for students.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. She tutored other kids from public housing. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them. Nowhere was this movement stronger than in New Orleans. I struggled with that.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We have classroom tutors now. There’s just so much that’s been shaken up in our country, in our culture, in our education system. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day. Our district has realized some of our challenges. They have put extra support in place to support us. Every day there are more adults.

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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. It’s still just not even close to what the traditional public schools go through. It’s very flexible. And so when you have students leave and try something else, the dollars often follow 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

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The nonprofit’s curriculum is also part of statewide tutoring programs in Tennessee and Texas. One such proposal is to bring data science into high school math curriculum while deemphasizing more-traditional math pathways. Those lessons are free for students and teachers, Zearn is quick to point out.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2021

In some cases, this means flipping the way students receive help from the traditional referral-based system to proactive outreach. 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

High School 145

High School K-12 Tutoring Public School 145

ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Findings from learning analytics research is also being used to help train new generative AI-powered tutoring systems.

Tutoring 133

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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. She recently raised the grade from a D to a C+ and expects it will go up even higher.

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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. It starts with yoga and ends with soccer practice and after-school tutoring. The school day runs from 8 a.m.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I learned about local organizations that support migrants, and I became a volunteer tutor for high school immigrants and refugees in Oakland, California, through a nonprofit organization that supports refugee and immigrant youth. In time, Keyla felt comfortable enough with me to seek help outside the traditional tutoring role of the program.

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Tutoring Anthropology Pedagogy Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2019

Low-income, high-achieving students are often discouraged from applying to selective colleges for reasons ranging from sticker price to culture shock. The Operation Varsity Blues scandal has revived the sordid story of how top Trump aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner got into Harvard University: His father, Charles Kushner, made a $2.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Even with plentiful low-skill jobs and with some immigrants running small businesses or finding better paid jobs as translators or tutors, poverty is still a reality among recent arrivals. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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Middle School Cultures High School Tutoring 104

Anthropology News

MARCH 1, 2025

Omar went to visit local shrines while Ibrahim and I explored bookstores in search of a text in Shafii fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] recommended by his tutor. He explained that everyday life in Britain had become saturated in cultural debates over sexuality and that he migrated to ensure his child developed a stable Muslim identity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

It just was a big change, was having to lose a school that was our tradition.”. Math and literacy tutors showed up once a week, or just once a month. She was ready for schools that reflected the community’s voice, priorities and diverse cultures. Most of those affected in Drew are African – American children.

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Charter School Public School Government High School 75

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

That hasn’t worked very well, in part because it’s too cumbersome, in part because some of the Hispanic parents speak dialects with little resemblance to traditional Spanish. And it encourages teachers to connect whatever content they are teaching to the culture and traditions of ELL students. from Guatemala.

Elementary School 93

Elementary School K-12 Teaching Middle School 93