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Like hundreds of school districts, Aspire purchased an online tutoring service for the spring of 2021 to help these students. Students could log in to the tutoring service, called Paper , whenever they wanted, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and connect with a tutor to help with schoolwork in any subject.

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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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MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura. Online was going to be disruptive.

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JUNE 5, 2023

That has not deterred a trio of researchers from trying to quantify that influence. Kraft and two other researchers from Harvard University and the University of Virginia turned to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health , a periodic survey of 20,000 teens from 1994 into adulthood.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Many claim that scientific research proves their wares work. “Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. The J-PAL researchers found nine rigorous studies of it. Can they be believed? Some were positive.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

This sobering anecdote comes from a research project led by Kelly Slay, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, who has been conducting in-depth interviews with admissions officers in 2022 to understand how the elimination of SAT and ACT testing requirements has been playing out inside colleges and universities.

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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. Caetano and her research team analyzed the time diaries of 4,300 children and teens, from kindergarten through 12th grade.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers. An earlier version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.). The teens who participated even had higher marriage rates.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In When I have written about unrelated educational reforms, researchers often compare them to the effectiveness of class size reductions to give me a sense of their relative impact. In math, it found no benefits at all.

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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. Havens has been granted a clemency hearing and may be released as early as this year.)

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

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JULY 1, 2024

One of the research teams, which includes Harvard University economist Tom Kane and Stanford University sociologist Sean Reardon, likened the gains to six days of learning in math and three days of learning in reading for every $1,000 in federal pandemic aid per student. And the spending was worth the gains,” Lake added.

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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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JUNE 19, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The researchers found that students who spent more time in class solving practice problems on their own and taking quizzes and tests tended to have higher scores in math. Researchers didn’t prove that teachers’ choices on how to spend class time caused GCSE scores to go up.

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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. “Our Separately, the students’ futures diverged starkly.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Before, out-of-school suspension risked academic setback for students, says Dr. Robinson, since it was sometimes logistically difficult to arrange tutors. Flexible Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding meant the college could offer the program tuition-free. Ali, co-author of a report on the tech gap.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Another provision allows students to move up a grade, as long as the school gives them tutoring for a full school year. Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Research has shown time and again how critical such programs are, with outcomes that range from academic achievement and developing resilience to readiness for college and careers. Isolation by itself is linked to developmental setbacks for children, and much of what they will need in the fall will be social and emotional support.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. School hiring has taken place in three acts, Roza says.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It is a research-based approach that experts say is essential for helping children — especially those who struggle — learn to read. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. By the end of the tutoring sessions, 12 reached or exceeded grade level on their reading benchmark tests.

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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. Related: Where have all the kindergarteners gone?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They are also seeking convenience: a safe, economical way to get to campus or study online or in a hybrid format and a schedule that allows them to continue to work full or part time. Students at the 95 percent are typically seeking an affordable education and are reluctant to take on debt for higher education.

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JUNE 3, 2020

a research analyst for higher education at Ed Trust. Campus culture is a major factor in student success, research has found. Turner attended Ashtabula’s high school, Lakeside High, where almost every student is economically disadvantaged. Related: Black college students in Illinois get the short end of the financial stick.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Policy Center , a nonpartisan research organization. Educators and researchers also worry that Washington’s pandemic trends are playing out nationwide. More research is needed to understand why so many schools are giving high grades to students who haven’t mastered material and graduating so many ill-prepared students.

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APRIL 12, 2021

More recent figures released in April by the Pew Research Center show that, in 2018, Black students earned 7 percent of STEM bachelor’s degrees. Black people hold 7 percent of jobs in these areas requiring bachelor’s degrees, the Pew Research Center reports. Their absence could have consequences that are not just economic.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The proportion of high-achieving students from families making more than $250,000 a year applying through early decision is nearly twice that of high-achieving students from families that make less than $50,000, research commissioned by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation shows. This year we’re looking at 30.”. It’s a triple whammy.”.

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JUNE 27, 2019

And key to UMR’s rise as a mint for medical talent is its partnership with the Mayo Clinic, which hires a good number of its graduates and provides research opportunities for others. 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.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Students take a weekly sustainability class and participate in monthly field study days that send them into the community to conduct research on topics like land use, pollution and food equity. But over the years, it has expanded its purview to social and economic sustainability, too, said Tenner, the executive director.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In Virginia, for example, more than 50 percent of all black college students attend just four colleges, according to research by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank. Black and Latino students also often encounter more financial hardship in college and drop out for economic reasons.

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JULY 14, 2022

And when researchers asked American parents of school-age children how important it is that their children do well in school, most gave it the highest level of importance; in fact, on average, Black, Latinx and Asian parents ranked it as more important than white parents did. but lower achievement in South Korea.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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MAY 30, 2023

Higher education remains a gateway to economic opportunity, creating pathways to first jobs, promotions, raises and careers. Higher education remains a gateway to economic opportunity, creating pathways to first jobs, promotions, raises and careers.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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APRIL 1, 2019

.” CPRS is taking a leadership role in identifying, testing and replicating effective school counseling and college advising models and practices that can drive successful postsecondary outcomes and increase students’ economic mobility. and is the author of the book How to Tutor Your Own Child (2011).

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Eliminating the test requirement can raise the numbers of low-income and first-generation students and those from underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups without affecting graduation rates, according to research conducted in collaboration with the National Association for College Admission Counseling, or NACAC.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

In a recent high-profile case, NYU terminated a prolific researcher from an adjunct position after a student petition and a battle over learning standards; the crux of students’ anger and fear was that failure in his course effectively barred them from their academic and professional hopes. They are brilliant.

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MAY 30, 2018

But research has been mixed on whether it works. ST Math is produced by the nonprofit MIND Research Institute, but it’s quite expensive — around $15,000 per year, said Morial Principal Mark Burton. Supporters in New Orleans say that, so far, personalized learning has been transformative. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

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