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PROOF POINTS: Uncertain evidence for online tutoring

The Hechinger Report

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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STUDENT VOICE: I’m thriving in my dual-enrollment program, but it could be a whole lot better

The Hechinger Report

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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PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

The Hechinger Report

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. An earlier version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.).

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The simple intervention that could lift kids out of ‘Covid slide’

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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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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

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. The second act came with seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013. Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds.

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PROOF POINTS: Some of the $190 billion in pandemic money for schools actually paid off

The Hechinger Report

These surprising differences for places with similar poverty levels occurred because pandemic aid was allocated according to the same byzantine rules that govern federal Title I funding to low-income schools. Wealthier families also had the means to hire tutors or time to help their children at home.

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

The Hechinger Report

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.”