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. To qualify to work in these fields, these students often need to pass a licensing test, requiring math and reading knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

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. But many vacancies are in high poverty schools where fewer teachers want to teach.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Creger was showing the students how to read by using phonics, which teaches children the relationships between letters and sounds. Elsewhere in North Carolina, or in any other state in the nation, if you step into an elementary school, you might find three different classrooms teaching students three different ways to read.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

As a history teacher, I’ve found it an effective teaching-tool. Q-Chat Tutor: The Q-Chat function acts as a personal tutor for students, guiding them through study materials and helping reinforce learning through interaction. Students can use Q-Chat as a personal tutor. I’ve been using Edpuzzle for about a decade.

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The Hechinger Report

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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. 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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Learning coaches are different from teachers because they act more like tutors. I could tell her goal was to teach me how to be a strong, resourceful writer and not just help me ace that particular assignment. My school also does an amazing job of incorporating real-life scenarios into its teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Unlike colleges where faculty tenure is determined in part by the research professors conduct in their fields, UMR awards tenure for research into how best to teach those disciplines.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. Since the inception of this country, the model of removing someone from society to teach them a lesson has not worked.” A tutor began coming to his home for a few hours a week, but Martinez says he learned very little. City School District of Albany meted out 280.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Families in that suburb had similarly high levels of economic resources to support their children’s educational success, but their strategies were different. Going to academic tutoring after school in China and India is just what one does if your parents can afford it: It’s what it takes to get into a top college.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”. His counselors reached out.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

So McWilliams decided to try teaching. “My My mom had always encouraged me to teach,” she said. 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. Mississippi is dealing with a dire teaching shortage.

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The Hechinger Report

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. She teaches at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.,

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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 over the years, it has expanded its purview to social and economic sustainability, too, said Tenner, the executive director.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Mary Li-Ling Liang, Director of Education Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles attributed the increase in the number of Taiwanese students attending public schools here, while their parents remain in Taiwan, to parental concerns about their country’s educational system and political future. They’re too relaxed.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Slavin suggests that it might be more effective to operate larger classes, supplemented by one-to-one tutoring for kids who need it. Andreas Schleicher, director of the education and skills unit at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has long been arguing that the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Aaron Thompson Yet just because people can access technology doesn’t mean they know how to use it effectively for teaching and learning. But he tries to make clear to Kentucky lawmakers how improving equity in higher education connects with the state’s economic goals. We need to tell the success stories of these institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. Our future economic vitality depends on this.”. As a state, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind … Our future economic vitality depends on this”.

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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. Dorfman also noted that his more advanced students can work ahead more effectively.

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Becoming a History Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Teaching therefore presented itself as the natural answer to post-university next steps but, as I started my Initial Teacher Education course, I did not intend education to become a life-long career. If not, what impact is that having upon the unintentional teacher for whom teaching is not a vocation?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. Ken Kunz, literacy coach and founder of For the Love of Literacy, provides ongoing support at Columbus School observing instruction, doing model lessons, and co-teaching to give teachers tips on how to improve.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Moorpark has added “equity lounges,” summer trips to Africa, and seminars for professors on how to best teach men. Montclair has tried a range of methods to attract male students from cities such as Newark and Camden — everything from counseling and tutoring to providing toiletries and food. Just 7 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Though it was just her first year of teaching, Molière, 49, was already an expert at motivating students, who raised their hands high in the air and vied for her attention, then beamed when they got it. Clustered in high-poverty schools, the most inexperienced teachers don’t last: More than a quarter of them leave teaching each year.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

Vang and others like her across the country play vital roles in bringing a wide range of community services inside the schoolhouse, thus ensuring that teachers can do what they do best: teach. in economic benefits for every $1 invested. In high schools, ISS has been shown to create $11.60 They make a plan to fill the holes.

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The Hechinger Report

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

JUNE 21, 2020

Roughly 750 licensed positions remained unfilled when students entered classrooms in August and many schools in the district had to hire long-term substitutes who had less training (if any) in teaching math. Initially, Khan Academy intended to add a language arts tool in fall 2020 and begin to charge for training and tech support.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s. But educators in Lindsay say that, while there’s more work on the front end, the district’s model actually makes teaching easier in the long run.

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Becoming a History Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Career changers with family commitments or those from less economically affluent backgrounds without personal connections to schools, find it harder to undertake unpaid work experience. And of course we mustn’t forget the unintentional teacher who decides to make a speculative application but then goes on to find their perfect job.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Christian Cabrera, a teacher and director of student services, teaches a business class at Broome Street Academy. Photo: Jackie Mader. Many are homeless; some are run-aways.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

New Jersey’s program provides money and support services to 13,449 students from educationally and economically disadvantaged backgrounds in 42 programs from community colleges to Rutgers, the state flagship. 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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

A model created by the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project , a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts, estimates that roughly 20 percent of the 110 million Americans who live in rented homes risk displacement by September 30 unless policymakers enact aggressive relief measures. But it often involves transportation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Seoul – Retired English soccer star David Beckham teaches South Korean children some soccer skills during a publicity tour for insurance group AIA. Much of that spending supports private tutoring. Photo: © Yonhap News/Newscom via ZUMA Press. In a world where education is supposed to drive the economy, is it possible to be overeducated?

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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 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. In high school, he worked as a tutor at the center. Related: Making the preschool magic last as children get older.

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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. But Roark tried a different approach, searching for the best teachers he could attract to the school and hiring some teachers from out of state and through the Teach For America program.

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