The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

In early January, Leonardo Amador, principal of Von Tobel Middle School in Las Vegas, talks about how his staff members use the MAP Accelerator to boost students’ math skills. The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Ryan Ren, 14, loves the soccer fields around his middle school in Arcadia, California. But Ryan, now a student at Dana Middle School, hasn’t been to Guangzhou in a while. During that same time period, the number of F-1 visas for Taiwanese students at private schools dropped slightly.) ARCADIA, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Yet the Brentwood Union Free School District suspended Martinez for more than six months. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year. In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

“The big picture takeaway is that learning mirrors pre-pandemic trends,” said Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, which sells assessments to schools to track student progress. The long-term economic and social costs are enormous if we fail. In some cases, the growth is a little bit more than a typical year, maybe a 6 percent increase.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Middle school students are terribly behind in math. Yet, there are multiple reports that parents aren’t signing their children up for free tutoring , even when schools make it available. I’ve been focused on the economic reasons. National assessments tell us that 20 years of academic progress were erased in a year.

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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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OCTOBER 3, 2024

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. Cullum took Algebra II and trigonometry with Holifield, who even helped her to become a math tutor, one of her first jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. The diagnoses should have triggered extra supports at school, but Burns said that much-needed help never materialized. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Locations of charter middle schools in Boston. Source: “Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. — Cleveland native Toni McWilliams didn’t feel like she was putting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration to good use working as an administrative secretary for a middle school in her hometown. The job, which paid around $19,000, barely brought in enough money to support her two young daughters.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. Although her family has moved many times, Johnson has up until now managed to maintain some stability in school for Mikaela. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school. Ashley Johnson, 35.

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The Hechinger Report

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

AUGUST 1, 2022

Schools report that students are receiving more tutoring sessions when they’re scheduled during the school day without competing instructional activities at the same time. Tutoring is by far the most effective way to help children catch up at school, according to rigorous research studies.

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Tutoring EdTech Lesson Plan Elementary School 124

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

He’d been a middle school and high school teacher for years, and he had students who came across words they’d never seen before and had no idea how to sound them out. Seidenberg knows of a child who was struggling so much with reading that her mother paid for a private tutor.

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Elementary School K-12 Teaching Research 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

In Alexandria, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology scrapped its entrance exam and is conducting a “ holistic review ” of applicants based on their GPAs, essays and other factors. Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

When Stephanie spoke up once in middle school, a teacher told her, “I can’t put you anywhere else because you’re going to block other students.” “I was like, ‘Do you not like me or something?” she recalled. She felt invisible. They would sit me in the back. I couldn’t see the board,” she said.

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Elementary School Tutoring Psychology Research 134

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2025

And then they stayed on the computer her first year of middle school, in sixth grade. But Konneh graduated and now works in sales operations and his family recovered economically. And Im making enough money to hire a tutor for my daughter, who lost a lot of ground during the pandemic and is just now catching up.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2017

The 21st Century Learning Centers offer after-school programs to a range of grade levels in Greenville, Mississippi. 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. The program would be eliminated under President Donald Trump’s budget proposal.

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Tutoring Elementary School Public School Middle School 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

LaTavia BigBack lives at Hope House Colorado, which offers programs for pregnant and parenting teen mothers such as free legal support, financial counseling and individual tutoring. Many struggled in the classroom setting, so at Hope House they work with tutors, one on one. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. It’s bad.

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High School Tutoring Sociology Middle School 141

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Humayun draws inspiration from her parents, who belong to the Ahmadiyya Islamic reform group and are subject to discrimination in Pakistan, and from the refugees she tutors in English. She said she felt “a responsibility” to represent the Muslim-American community in a positive way.

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