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PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring

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A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. Yet some of the strongest research evidence points to an intensive type of tutoring as a way to help children catch up. Credit: Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.

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Can an AI tutor teach your child to read?

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At Brewbaker, which in 2020 served more than 700 students in pre-K through second grade, nearly 20 percent of her students are English learners and 71 percent are economically disadvantaged. Amira is the namesake of an AI reading program that aims to improve reading ability by giving kids a personal literacy assistant and tutor.

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OPINION: Children will need summer tutors to make up for pandemic learning loss

The Hechinger Report

Thanks to professor Robert Slavin’s research at Johns Hopkins University, we know that one-on-one tutoring using an evidence-based program is a quick, effective way to increase students’ literacy. As part of their coursework, the university students tutored struggling first and second grade readers.

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‘High-Dose’ Tutoring Boosts Student Scores. Will It Also Work Online?

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The good news is that this particular malady has a prescription for treatment: “high-dose” tutoring — a concentrated form of small-group study that meets multiple times per week. The trials showed that for low-income ninth and 10th graders, high-dose tutoring led to a “sizeable” improvement (0.18 Watered Down?

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PROOF POINTS: Many schools are buying on-demand tutoring but a study finds that few students are using it

The Hechinger Report

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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PROOF POINTS: Uncertain evidence for online tutoring

The Hechinger Report

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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PROOF POINTS: Overscheduling kids’ lives causes depression and anxiety, study finds

The Hechinger Report

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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