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This math tutoring program gets ‘blockbuster’ results in high-poverty schools

The Hechinger Report

The world’s wealthiest families have known for centuries how effective tutoring is. Private tutors long educated the aristocracy and continue to supplement the education of kids whose families can afford it. Now, a national nonprofit has found a way to get tutoring to kids from poorer families, too.

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As More AI Tools Emerge in Education, so Does Concern Among Teachers About Being Replaced

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But these days, when it comes to AI, another concern has come into the spotlight: That the technology could lead to less human interaction in schools and colleges — and that school administrators could one day try to use it to replace teachers. And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue.

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OPINION: Inequality is still at the heart of student NAEP score performance

The Hechinger Report

While it is good news that these results are lighting a fire under the education policy world and highlighting the particular need among students of color, the traditional approach to improving results — more math, more reading, more pressure — seems dubious at best.

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Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students

The Hechinger Report

More than 13,000 more students failed the algebra Regents exam in the most recent 2017-18 school year compared to the previous year, pushing the failure rate up from 25 percent to 30 percent, according to a December 2018 report by education policy consultant David Rubel. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges

The Hechinger Report

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. Addressing these graduation gaps will probably be expensive and involve more financial aid, tutoring and advising for students. Weekly Update.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

The Hechinger Report

When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale. He relied on the advantages offered by this vehicle, and the Global Teaching Project launched the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access in 2017. A score of 3 is needed to pass.