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MARCH 15, 2025

Eighty percent of Americans think online learning after high school should cost less than in-person programs, according to a 2024 survey of 1,705 adults by New America. Her day job is at the national nonprofit Young Invincibles, which pushes for reforms in higher education, health care and economic security for young Americans.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

A troubling post-pandemic pattern is emerging across the nation’s schools: test scores and attendance are down, yet more students are earning high school diplomas. suggests bleak futures for many of these high school graduates, given the declining rate of college attendance and completion. A majority of D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

An Israeli study found long-term benefits from high school remedial instruction taught by the students’ teachers after school. There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. The benefits of the extra high school instruction were long lasting.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Sherry Smith understands that kind of anxiety. She didn’t even want to step foot into a math class. I hated to disclose that to people.

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The Hechinger Report

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

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

At the start of each school year, for example, the class devotes a few days to trust-building exercises, not math. Falling behind in middle school math has ripple effects. Students who fail Algebra I (which most kids take in ninth grade) are far less likely to graduate high school on time and attend a four-year college.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

The researchers compared what happened to the 3,000 students who had mentors at school with the roughly 5,000 students who said they had no mentors at all. The ones with school mentors did moderately better in high school with slightly higher grades – for example, a B- versus a C+ – and failed fewer classes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

But a newly published French study of one of that country’s most elite college prep programs for disadvantaged youth concluded that it harmed half the high school students who participated and left them worse off. It’s a cautionary tale about efforts to do good. I think of ENS as something like the Harvard of France.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families can spend their ESAs on almost any education-related expenses, such as private school tuition, tutoring and homeschool supplies. Now, the recent rise in tuition may price more Arizona families out of the nation’s most expansive experiment in school choice. It makes complete economic sense,” Lewis said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

The study, “ Teacher’s use of class time and student achievement ,” published in the Economics of Education Review, gives us a rare glimpse inside classrooms thanks to a sister experiment in teacher ratings that provided the data for this study. Lectures were one of the least common uses of time in both subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Retrieved from [link] The stats on school staffing might seem like a violation of the laws of supply and demand. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. If we can help these students reframe their relationship to the process of learning in high school, we have the opportunity to enhance their social mobility — and, quite possibly, ensure the survival of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Students can also take the test again before the next school year to try and achieve a passing grade. Another provision allows students to move up a grade, as long as the school gives them tutoring for a full school year. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Nearly 1,200 fourth grade students in the district are required to get tutoring interventions this year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Remote learning has changed the approach to out-of-school suspension at Shenendehowa Central School District, where more than a fourth of students identify as nonwhite. Grades K-5 in the district are in person, but middle and high schools are mostly hybrid. Related: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

When the pandemic struck, districts around the country, especially those in low-income areas, were still recovering from economic losses sustained during the 2008 recession, when nearly 300,000 teachers and other school staff were laid off. This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education.

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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. One college purchased a data service that ranked high schools and factored those high school rankings into each application.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

Wealthier families also had the means to hire tutors or time to help their children at home. The most frustrating part of both reports is that we have no idea what schools did to help students catch up. And maybe some of the non-academic things that schools spent money on weren’t so frivolous after all.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Aya Hamza’s academic and extracurricular record at Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami should have made her path to college relatively effortless. Aya Hamza, a high school senior, with her father. Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami, which has nine college counselors for 3,000 students. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

Kent State Ashtabula is in a rural county near Cleveland, where black and Latino students make up about a third of the local high school. Most residents have a high school diploma, yet only 28 percent have a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to Census data. Very few have succeeded.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Meanwhile, some high-performing themed schools remain out of reach to many low-income students, due to screenings — such as tests or auditions — that favor families who can afford private lessons and tutors. But parents whose children attended the school said the arts theme isn’t infused into the core subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade and why, as a high school junior, I’m still there, as is Hanna and her twin, Morgan. Learning coaches are different from teachers because they act more like tutors.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Administrators at these top-ranking colleges, along with college counselors at elite high schools, are strategizing how they might manage what many anticipate will be a vastly altered admissions landscape. No doubt, there is a lot at stake for a small sliver of students and institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. that pay college tuition for adults. ? After her pay rose by just $1.60

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

During the three semesters when Lenoir-Rhyne students get instruction on teaching reading, they are also inside local elementary schools tutoring young children. Administrators said the tutoring — which was going on even before the lab opened — is part of why some schools in Hickory are seeing more success in reading.

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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

MARCH 11, 2021

And it is threatening the first-year college experiences that are so vital to student achievement — a year without orientation, in-person academic tutoring, learning communities and on-campus activities could easily threaten a student’s ability to acclimate to college life.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

Their absence could have consequences that are not just economic. Kiera Alexander graduated third in her high school class in rural South Carolina but did not take AP calculus. She tutored chemistry for three years, made the dean’s list for several semesters and is scheduled to graduate with honors.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. Yet the Brentwood Union Free School District suspended Martinez for more than six months. City School District of Albany meted out 280.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

And white and well-off students from better-resourced high schools and with greater access to private tutoring score better on these tests, according to ACT and the College Board — which administers the SAT — themselves. Black enrollment has grown but remains at little more than 2 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

“The thing is,” given its high price and questions about its value, “college might be a scam,” said Gates, an 18-year-old senior at Bogan Computer Technical High School on Chicago’s South Side. He’s considering going to a trade school instead. Donje Gates, a senior at Bogan Computer Technical High School in Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

This year, my senior year in high school, changed things. A person who goes to a state school is no less capable of success than a person who goes to Harvard. I’m tired of the college tutors, essay-writing companies and social media creators who are making some teenagers think otherwise. I even wound up on the news.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It’s a scene that is replicated across the seven elementary schools and two high schools in this agricultural community of around 13,500 in California’s Central Valley. Students in a transitional kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in the Lindsay Unified district, work in small groups.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Ryan’s situation is unusual, both because he is attending public school and because he arrived here alone. for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. During that same time period, the number of F-1 visas for Taiwanese students at private schools dropped slightly.)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Nearly three-fourths of students at New York City’s elite Stuyvesant High School are Asian American. born white parents living in the same affluent East Coast suburb for my new book, “ Race at the Top : Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools.”. but lower achievement in South Korea.

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