Education Policy History Tutoring 
The Hechinger Report
MAY 12, 2024
Horace Tate is no relic of history; Black principals are still fighting that fight today. We worked with the legislature to amend the law to include more entry points into teacher education programs by adding a provision that takes into account prospective teachers’ GPAs, instead of relying solely on ACT and Praxis scores.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Her parents spent about $3,500 on tutoring. This means the SAT and ACT are facing what could be the greatest challenge in their histories, which stretch back to the early 20 th century. Even though she had good grades and was a two-sport athlete, “of the whole college process, the testing was the hardest,” Tomasulo said.
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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. He had a passion for drawing that made art class his favorite, followed by math and history. As a history buff, he liked sharing what he already knew from videos he had watched on his own. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year. That’s not what happens.”
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 12, 2016
Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers.
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. Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 17, 2018
Remedial education, which forces some college students to re-take math and English they should have learned in high school, is being eliminated in states including Florida and California. That’s depriving them of a big chunk of their educations, said Peter Huidekoper Jr., Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 5, 2021
A counselor arranged tutoring, keeping him motivated and “feeling that I am not doing this alone.”. One big surprise at Shasta came as the college worked with Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a national nonprofit group that seeks to improve higher education access and completion.
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