The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

One such example is a remedial high school program in Israel, now defunct, that gave thousands of disadvantaged and lower achieving 16- and 17-year-olds after-school instruction in small groups, similar to tutoring. An earlier version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.).

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The Hechinger Report

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. Their families have the resources for tutors, after-school activities, or nannies who enforce homework time.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It only occurred by October of 2023 using federal relief dollars, according to economic analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. Instead, scaffolding that helps support teachers, like before- and after-school tutoring, would let students return to class more easily, he argues.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tennessee’s law was modeled after a much-praised literacy program in neighboring Mississippi that includes tutoring, improved literacy training for teachers and a retention policy for third graders who don’t pass its state test. Nearly 1,200 fourth grade students in the district are required to get tutoring interventions this year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

When the pandemic struck, districts around the country, especially those in low-income areas, were still recovering from economic losses sustained during the 2008 recession, when nearly 300,000 teachers and other school staff were laid off. This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education.

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

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

Wealthier families also had the means to hire tutors or time to help their children at home. Researchers weren’t able to connect the academic gains to tutoring, summer school or any of the other interventions that schools have been trying. Spending on athletic facilities did not.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

The study, “ Teacher’s use of class time and student achievement ,” published in the Economics of Education Review, gives us a rare glimpse inside classrooms thanks to a sister experiment in teacher ratings that provided the data for this study. Lectures were one of the least common uses of time in both subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

Kraft and his colleagues brought the tools of modern applied economics to answer the question of a teacher’s worth outside of the classroom. This doesn’t necessarily require smaller class sizes; small groups could be advisory periods, club activities or tutoring sessions during the school day. Kraft says that’s not his intention.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

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. All they need to do is select the option and the tutor begins its questioning. It prompts you to do the rest.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

Many found a way to continue their studies through informal tutoring centers, but those too have come under increased scrutiny as the government continues to crack down on women and girls’ access to education. I continued my school and course lessons until our economic situation deteriorated and I could not study English anymore.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. For example, at Dominican, we created “exit tickets” that students submit after class, which are used to refine subsequent tutoring sessions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

During the three semesters when Lenoir-Rhyne students get instruction on teaching reading, they are also inside local elementary schools tutoring young children. Administrators said the tutoring — which was going on even before the lab opened — is part of why some schools in Hickory are seeing more success in reading.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

And it is threatening the first-year college experiences that are so vital to student achievement — a year without orientation, in-person academic tutoring, learning communities and on-campus activities could easily threaten a student’s ability to acclimate to college life.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Before the pandemic, the move to test-optional admissions was already gathering steam as concerns mounted over the fact that wealthier students could hire tutors, take the tests multiple times and post higher scores. Other critics said that the paperwork to waive testing fees was a barrier for many low-income students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

He took college classes for credit, received tutoring and advising and learned about other services available on campus and where to find them. “I But this past summer Reyes Velasco spent five weeks on Montclair State University’s campus as part of a program designed to support incoming first-year low-income students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

Turner attended Ashtabula’s high school, Lakeside High, where almost every student is economically disadvantaged. Ashtabula regularly has more than a dozen tutors available, and can increase the number depending on need, said Carol Jones, coordinator of academic services.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

In Virginia, where enrollment fell by 13 percent , researchers found equal declines among families of different socio-economic status. Schools that invest in one-on-one tutoring in the early grades could bring students up to grade level in a matter of weeks, he says. “A

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Wealthier families have also been able to pay for tutoring, private college counselors and test prep; although submitting tests is optional at more than 1,650 colleges and universities this year, families are convinced a good score can still help in admission. This year we’re looking at 30.”. It’s a triple whammy.”.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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

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. Student surveys show that one of the university’s most popular services is its “Just Ask” faculty tutoring service.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

It has a far-reaching ripple effect, with power to uplift individuals, families and entire communities; it remains the most reliably consistent path to economic and social mobility. Will it be economic interests, such as legacy, donor status and the ability of the student’s family to pay the “full freight” cost of college?

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ED Surge

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

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. From 2017-18 to 2021-22, districts with more economically disadvantaged students and Black and Latino students gave out more such suspensions per capita than their more affluent, whiter counterparts. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year.

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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. and is the author of the book How to Tutor Your Own Child (2011).

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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. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

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. Third graders are so behind grade level in reading that the curriculum and assessment company Amplify warns that a third are in need of intensive remediation.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

Their absence could have consequences that are not just economic. She tutored chemistry for three years, made the dean’s list for several semesters and is scheduled to graduate with honors. Credit: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report. She often wonders how differently things might have turned out without the help she got.

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