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Tutoring may not significantly improve attendance

The Hechinger Report

Students who were chosen to receive tutoring in Washington, D.C., A Stanford study showed that tutoring could improve their attendance by about one day. 33 million investment in tutoring, which provided extra help to more than 5,000 of the districts 100,000 students in 2022-23, the second year of a three-year tutoring initiative.

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PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring

The Hechinger Report

A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. Yet some of the strongest research evidence points to an intensive type of tutoring as a way to help children catch up. Credit: Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.

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When Students Miss School, Teachers Enjoy Their Jobs Less

ED Surge

The core of teaching is instruction and helping kids grow and develop, and anything that pulls teachers away from that purpose is going to make them unsatisfied, says Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the study. Using data from the U.S.

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Can an AI tutor teach your child to read?

The Hechinger Report

At Brewbaker, which in 2020 served more than 700 students in pre-K through second grade, nearly 20 percent of her students are English learners and 71 percent are economically disadvantaged. Amira is the namesake of an AI reading program that aims to improve reading ability by giving kids a personal literacy assistant and tutor.

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‘High-Dose’ Tutoring Boosts Student Scores. Will It Also Work Online?

ED Surge

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results from last year returned historically big declines in scores for fourth and eighth graders in math, leading to fears that catching students up would prove difficult. What’s better, the improvements lasted: One-to-two years after tutoring, the bump was still there.

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OPINION: Children will need summer tutors to make up for pandemic learning loss

The Hechinger Report

This year has also highlighted another educational challenge: the lack of effective literacy instruction in many of our K-2 grade classrooms. Thanks to professor Robert Slavin’s research at Johns Hopkins University, we know that one-on-one tutoring using an evidence-based program is a quick, effective way to increase students’ literacy.

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PROOF POINTS: Many schools are buying on-demand tutoring but a study finds that few students are using it

The Hechinger Report

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. Like hundreds of school districts, Aspire purchased an online tutoring service for the spring of 2021 to help these students.

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