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OCTOBER 16, 2024

He took college classes for credit, received tutoring and advising and learned about other services available on campus and where to find them. “I Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. It’s a stubborn and complicated question. “I

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How well does online tutoring work? The federal government is pushing schools to spend a big chunk of their $122 billion in federal American Rescue Plan funds on tutoring , but bringing in armies of tutors into school buildings is a logistical nightmare. Online tutoring is a tempting solution.

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APRIL 13, 2025

Dual enrollment in college classrooms is helping me save money on college, and it also helped me get an after-school tutoring job at Kumon my mentors in Valencia College s tutoring program inspired me and gave me guidance and confidence to succeed in my interview. My high school also didnt have test prep resources.

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MARCH 15, 2025

Among the surprising answers is that colleges and universities are charging more for online education to subsidize everything else they do, online managers say. Yet 83 percent of online programs in higher education cost students as much as or more than the in-person versions, an annual survey of campus chief online learning officers finds.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Plus, math and education in general can be empowering.

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JUNE 1, 2020

That’s why all eyes are on the New York City Department of Education’s next move. This story about planning for the fall semester in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Be fully remote?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ( J-PAL ), an organization inside the economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scoured academic journals, the internet and evaluation databases and found only 113 studies on using technology in schools that were scientifically rigorous.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

One such example is a remedial high school program in Israel, now defunct, that gave thousands of disadvantaged and lower achieving 16- and 17-year-olds after-school instruction in small groups, similar to tutoring. The paper on afterschool instruction, “Does Remedial Education at Late Childhood Pay Off After All?

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AUGUST 10, 2020

Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. Victor had made lots of progress in math since he began meeting twice a week with Carr at a Nashville-area Boys & Girls Club through an ad hoc, statewide tutoring initiative.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Let’s not forget that the highest-ranked and wealthiest institutions educate fewer than 5 percent of those pursuing a postsecondary degree. Let’s not forget that the highest-ranked and wealthiest institutions educate fewer than 5 percent of those pursuing a postsecondary degree. We can do much better than that.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. For those 12,000 students, the story is not over,” said Breanna Sommers, a policy analyst with The Education Trust in Tennessee.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We’re not saying that all these activities are bad, but that the total is bad,” said Carolina Caetano, one of the study’s authors and an assistant professor of economics at the University of Georgia. Their families have the resources for tutors, after-school activities, or nannies who enforce homework time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2023

Fewer high school graduates are now going straight to college , and there is growing skepticism across the country about the long-term value of a college education. Higher education remains a gateway to economic opportunity, creating pathways to first jobs, promotions, raises and careers. With median earnings of $2.3

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

The result could topple the already fragile ecosystem of schools in this country and devastate public education for years. With just days to go until the new school year starts in many places, parents and educators are realizing that there are no good choices. This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education.

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JULY 14, 2022

When we see these outcomes, it’s easy to make the mistake of assuming that these students’ families value educational success more than other families do. One report from Harvard claims that Asian American families “prioritize education” (presumably more than other groups) and that this partly explains Asian American success.

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JULY 1, 2024

Still, these neediest children were projected to be one third of a grade level behind low-income students in 2019, before the pandemic disrupted education. Federal funding helped and it helped kids most in need,” wrote Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, on X in response to the two studies.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

That focus, combined with other strategies like longer math periods and tutoring, has helped Northside Middle’s students bounce back from learning losses during the pandemic more quickly than middle schoolers in many other districts, teachers and administrators here say. So far, efforts to help students recover may not be enough.

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APRIL 13, 2020

The French two-year program of extra tutoring and mentoring, called a cordée de la réussite or “team for success” in French, was run by École Normale Supérieure (ENS) of Paris, which is one of the most prestigious and selective schools of higher education in the country. I think of ENS as something like the Harvard of France. “Our

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APRIL 7, 2023

But some educators say the expectations Tennessee has set for its students are too high. A report from the education nonprofit NWEA suggests they’re struggling more than older students because the pandemic struck when they would have been learning foundational reading skills in kindergarten. The research on retention is mixed.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.” Credit: Ross D.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Texas, for example, educates 367,000 more students, a 7 percent increase over the past decade, but the number of employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16 percent jump. The first act followed the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Sifting out solutions from the struggle may help solve chronic problems of quality and equity, say education experts. After a moment of disruption – of major disruption – the conditions are ripe for accelerating innovation,” says Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education. “We Learning from Lockdown.

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JUNE 19, 2023

Some educators like to deliver clear explanations to students. There does seem to be a difference between language and math in the best use of time in class,” said Eric Taylor, an economist who studies education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and one of the study’s authors. “I What is the best way to teach?

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JUNE 5, 2023

Kraft and his colleagues brought the tools of modern applied economics to answer the question of a teacher’s worth outside of the classroom. This doesn’t necessarily require smaller class sizes; small groups could be advisory periods, club activities or tutoring sessions during the school day. Kraft says that’s not his intention.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

So when the 18-year-old began the summer Educational Opportunity Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, she thought she knew what she was in for. This story is familiar to Laurence “Tony” Howell, the executive director of NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program. . — By most measures, Sabrina Vasquez is smart. She was wrong.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Understandably, reports indicating that higher education is heading toward a looming enrollment cliff have university administrators nervous. The remaining 58 percent represent an untapped resource for higher education. These students do not enroll at the same rate as students who are better prepared for college.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college. Hank Weddington, dean of the college of education at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, calls the effort “a civil rights issue.”.

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MARCH 11, 2021

Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU. It has amplified HBCUs’ underfunding by putting new strains on education budgets. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Across the U.S., for example, some 1.

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JUNE 3, 2020

a research analyst for higher education at Ed Trust. Like we are one of the worst — the worst places — cost wise,” said Maggie McGrath, director of the Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland. But in Ohio the high-wage jobs that are growing the fastest now require more education. Part of Ohio’s challenge is cost.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Before the pandemic, the move to test-optional admissions was already gathering steam as concerns mounted over the fact that wealthier students could hire tutors, take the tests multiple times and post higher scores. Other critics said that the paperwork to waive testing fees was a barrier for many low-income students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

Yet as many more school districts and even entire states, like Minnesota, take up the mantle of this type of holistic educational philosophy, we must recognize that not all community schools are equally rooted in evidence of what works. What teachers and schools need is for the whole community to see education as its job.

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JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., But hindsight is a very different vantage point for Cassellius, who is now Minnesota’s commissioner of education. “It Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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JUNE 20, 2021

“It’s the pig in the python,” said Steven Barnett, co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER). In Virginia, where enrollment fell by 13 percent , researchers found equal declines among families of different socio-economic status. They’re the experts on their children and I’m the educational expert.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Department of Education. Wealthier families have also been able to pay for tutoring, private college counselors and test prep; although submitting tests is optional at more than 1,650 colleges and universities this year, families are convinced a good score can still help in admission. This year we’re looking at 30.”. Credit: Beth J.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Within six months of high school graduation, only 51 percent of the class of 2022 enrolled in post-secondary education, down from 56 percent from the class of 2019. The city had been improving rapidly before the pandemic and it’s depressing that its bleak education statistics have sharply deteriorated. Based on these trends, the D.C.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Our future economic vitality depends on this.”. Will jobs go begging?

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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