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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

ED Surge

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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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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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Two teachers take turns pulling small groups of six to eight kids out of class for 20 minutes or 40 minutes at a time to tutor them in math or reading. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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More colleges and universities outsource services to for-profit companies

The Hechinger Report

Related: Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education. The benefit to institutions seems fairly clear,” said Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy at the think tank New America. “It