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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.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. I wasn’t particularly mathy before then, but after that, math and I had a no-contact policy that would only reverse late in my college career when I became interested in economics and statistics.

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JUNE 1, 2020

The social and emotional needs of children have never been greater, and it’s time to prepare ourselves for everything from an increased need to redirect behavior the longer that children are out of their usual routines to the impact of trauma from illness, loss and economic strain on families.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Its student-adviser ratio is much lower than at other schools, and it boasts a tutoring center staffed not by fellow students, but by faculty members. At UMR, a third of the students are people of color, matching the composition of K-12 students in Minnesota. Its share of Pell students is 39 percent.

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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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JUNE 27, 2017

Dental checkups are one of the many non-academic activities the 17-year-old senior does at school in between anthropology, English 12, and economics. Teens must join The Door, free of charge, to use the facilities and services, which also include tutoring for the High School Equivalency diploma, employment assistance and legal aid.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

In the aftermath, state legislators allocated money to help urban students who weren’t getting a good enough K-12 education to attend and succeed at the state’s colleges. Nine people staff NJIT’s program office, and during the academic year, the program employs anywhere from 40 to 90 tutors, Howell said.

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APRIL 18, 2022

Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. It has changed significantly the enthusiasm and the excitement for reading in our school,” said Callison, where about 79 percent of students there are economically disadvantaged and the majority are Hispanic.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

I was one of a dozen classroom teachers who helped to develop and analyze Educators for Excellence’s Voices from the Classroom , a national survey of over 1,000 teachers, which found that economic concerns are top of mind for today’s teachers.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The researchers began by collecting 127 high-quality studies on class size reduction from 41 countries from kindergarten through grade 12. Slavin suggests that it might be more effective to operate larger classes, supplemented by one-to-one tutoring for kids who need it. Related: Putting an ed tech darling in context.

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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. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

More than 90 percent of students in each of those schools are classified as economically needy, a figure that rises to 99 percent at four of the schools, according to the Collier school district. Florida’s per-student funding is among the nation’s lowest, though the state is near the top in pre-K enrollment.

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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. During RISE’s first year of operation, Hudson had a staff of three, 12 volunteers, and a $25,000 budget: No one got paid. It proved to be an academic lifeline.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Before NCLB, states were not required to break out test scores by socio-economic status, ethnicity, English language proficiency or whether students received special education services. Eventually more than 40 states got waivers, and most of those states abandoned the school choice and tutoring initiatives once they were no longer required.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Paul Morgan, an education professor at Pennsylvania State University, said that the economic disadvantage often faced by black and Latino special-needs children has been exacerbated by the way Congress funds special education. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C.

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MAY 27, 2019

Reardon, a sociologist, says the growing achievement gaps he has found stem from increasing income inequality in our society and the decisions of many rich parents to invest more in their kids, from private tutors to after-school programs. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Inexperienced teachers, with three years’ experience or less, are clustered in one-third of New Orleans’ schools — most of which have student bodies that are 90 percent black and 90 percent economically disadvantaged. A majority of those schools serve a student body that is at least 90 percent black and 90 percent economically disadvantaged.

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MAY 20, 2019

The schools tended to combine strict discipline with high expectations, increased time in school, frequent testing and tutoring along with standardized practices for hiring and training teachers. But it was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in May 2019. They largely enrolled low-income students of color.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2019

The lag time between economic cycles and education spending is long. Kids in poor schools are more likely to need reading tutors, for example. Yet it took state and local governments until 2015-16 to restore their tax bases, muster the political will to approve spending increases and send the money to schools. That’s expensive.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Mandated, intensive tutoring particularly stands out as a common feature among effective schools. A randomized study in Chicago also found large gains in math test scores from implementing mandated, intensive tutoring. Overcoming entrenched inequality in education will take a broad array of tools.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In addition to the economic consequences of a glut of college graduates, many also decry the personal, social and financial costs created by a system that creates intense pressure for students to get into a top college. Much of that spending supports private tutoring. Parents also pay a high price for top test rankings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2018

Since the oil wells slowed down, the biggest economic engines in this no-stoplight town are the county school district, which serves about 300 kids, and a row of makeshift casinos run out of dilapidated houses lining the highway. Cruz along with several of his peers have made use of the college’s tutors to keep up.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They ran into an economic wall that has hit communities of color the hardest, but which has also blocked many residents of this 98 percent white county. Another deal with Berea College brought close to a dozen AmeriCorps volunteers into the school to act as tutors and help support students through tough personal issues.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Phoenix Union received around $12 million from the first coronavirus stimulus bill, according to Gestson. White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December. billion for K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

In the small district, 88 percent of schoolchildren are economically disadvantaged and almost 75 percent are at risk of dropping out. In the Harlandale district, 88 percent of schoolchildren are economically disadvantaged and almost 75 percent are at risk of dropping out. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. Summer is 11 weeks.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Tang now works part time as a tutor at DuPont Elementary, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Broad sources of data, like Microsoft’s dashboard — or the one recently released by the Consortium for School Networking, a K-12 technology member group — rely on government data, which is at least two years out of date, she says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Seidenberg knows of a child who was struggling so much with reading that her mother paid for a private tutor. “The tutor taught her some of the basic skills that the child wasn’t getting in her whole language classroom,” he said. Teachers in the K-12 education system are used to professional development.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2025

However, Trumps enthusiasm for artificial intelligence now presents a unique opportunity to prepare K-12 students for an increasingly tech-driven world. competitive globally, investing in AI literacy across K-12 education is essential especially for workforce preparation. Thats why, to keep the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

I am a white father who spends two hours on the New York City subway every day with my 10-year-old so he can attend an underfunded, desegregated public elementary school with a majority of black and Latino students and a majority of economically disadvantaged students. According to a long-term historical analysis by Rucker C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. As Rand earned community service hours tutoring children, she wondered if teaching was in her future. Holmes senior Justice Grisby completes a review sheet on factors of production in her economics class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2025

She said that ESSER the roughly $200 billion that Congress sent to K-12 schools to help during the pandemic enabled her district to provide more mental health and social and emotional support to students. But Konneh graduated and now works in sales operations and his family recovered economically.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Nationally, a dozen other states now offer ESAs, also known as education savings accounts, that incentivize parents to withdraw their kids from the public K-12 system. Families can spend their ESAs on almost any education-related expenses, such as private school tuition, tutoring and homeschool supplies.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

At the Boys and Girls Club, one of the district’s five sites, children receive homework help and tutoring, recreation time and a hot dinner. Inside, tutor Louise Cox helped a group of 16 elementary and middle school students with their homework and ran them through math and language exercises. Photo: Tovin Lapan. GREENVILLE, Miss. —

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

They argued these efforts had focused too much on quickly steering youth toward a job any job often low-skill, unstable work vulnerable to economic downturns. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education. Related: Widen your perspective.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. Dearman said a recent housing needs analysis determined the BIE now needs 30 beds in Supai, but has only 12.

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