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.”.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 10, 2019

The study , conducted by education policy researcher Kathleen Lynch , parses out how various summer activities, such as attending camp, reading and talking about math at home, vacations and daytrips, and summer school, have distinct academic effects. Implications for Families and Educators. The Research.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Her parents spent about $3,500 on tutoring. There are a number of things merging that pose a significant threat to standardized admissions tests,” said Michael Nietzel, president emeritus of Missouri State University, who writes frequently on higher education. She took practice tests daily. The average ACT composite score was 23.6

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

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. “You have a prediction system in place.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Starting when he was in middle school, I could have taken a stronger role in overseeing his schoolwork by editing his papers, re-teaching certain subjects and hiring tutors in others. In high school, we could have hired one-on-one tutors to prepare him for standardized tests. After that, I made a career writing about education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Longer term, state leaders are trying to improve internet infrastructure across the state, said Sarah Armstrong Tucker, chancellor for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. How do we make sure that our students have access in this changing world?” she asked. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. At some types of institutions, they’re flat or getting worse, according to the data.

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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. Once again, the technology acts as a placeholder.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. A tutor began coming to his home for a few hours a week, but Martinez says he learned very little. Depending on the district, suspended students can be taught through remote instruction or in person at an alternative school, a tutoring center or their home.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research studied what happened the following 2021-22 school year. The results, published online in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis on Feb. And red identified “off track” students who had not come to school 10 percent or more of the time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

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

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Addressing these graduation gaps will probably be expensive and involve more financial aid, tutoring and advising for students. Chart from "Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation," Urban Institute, January 2020. We have a problem in America.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Federal lawmakers should expand the uses of 529 savings plans to include personal tutors, education therapy, online classes, textbooks and curriculum, apprenticeship programs, and job-training expenses,” wrote Lindsey Burke and Jonathan Butcher in a 2017 Heritage Foundation report.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Emanuelle Sippy, a rising senior at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, and student director of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, another organization involved in the campaign, views student participation in education policy as mandatory. “We Related: As we talk about reopening schools, are the teachers okay?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

For example, while students of color make up 14 percent of Minnesota high school grads, they account for only 7 percent of freshmen at the flagship University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, according to a report by the nonpartisan Institute for Higher Education Policy. Rethinking remedial education. They get through faster.”.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Reardon, a sociologist, says the growing achievement gaps he has found stem from increasing income inequality in our society and the decisions of many rich parents to invest more in their kids, from private tutors to after-school programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

With better understanding, they can take action — invest in a tutor if the problem is isolated, for example, or demand that their district spend more on reading programs if the issue is widespread. For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The National Education Policy Center, for example, found that the high school graduation rate last year was only 53 percent for virtual charters, which enroll the majority of online students, and 62 percent for district-run virtual schools. The research paints a grim picture.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

The photographs don’t spell out exactly how much money the respective schools will cost, but low-income students always bear the biggest burden, according to a recent report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP). Instead , almost half of the students from the lowest-income families go to community colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2020

Alanna Bjorklund-Young, director of research at the John Hopkins Institute for Education Policy said one strategy schools might consider is keeping students with their previous teacher for part of the next school year. Pedro Noguera, an education professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2022

He challenged district leaders to provide students who are falling behind with 30 minutes of tutoring, three times a week, with well-trained instructors. The secretary addressed several education policy issues that the Biden administration has prioritized—some without much evident success so far in terms of actually advancing legislation.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue. Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, recently posted a video demo of him using a prototype of his organization’s chatbot Khanmigo, which has these features, to tutor his teenage son.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. “I But now, when kids are at home, privileged parents are going to be able to hire tutors and teachers. I can’t do that.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I learned about local organizations that support migrants, and I became a volunteer tutor for high school immigrants and refugees in Oakland, California, through a nonprofit organization that supports refugee and immigrant youth. In time, Keyla felt comfortable enough with me to seek help outside the traditional tutoring role of the program.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Participating students receive 90 percent of what the state would spend to educate them at a public school; children with disabilities can access much higher funding. Families can spend their ESAs on almost any education-related expenses, such as private school tuition, tutoring and homeschool supplies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

It’s unclear to me just if there’s any strategy around that unrestricted reserve,” said Jennifer Lee, a higher education policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. “In That helped raise student debt to record levels, and thousands of students have dropped out because of their inability to pay.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2019

In a Darwinian twist, the cost of living is typically only offset only by selective merit stipends, available only for those lucky few who manage to attain scores that outperform advantaged students (who usually have accelerated schooling and tutoring). Tiffany Jones is director of higher education policy at The Education Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In Nevada, in fact, parents can spend state education dollars any way they please — on private, public, online, part-time and full-time schools, on tutoring and extra books — through education savings accounts, which an advocate for them calls “the purest form of educational freedom.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Her country’s stay-at-home order, now entering its fifth month, also prevented Posada-Ingles from finishing her doctoral program in special education. Edna Posadas-Ingles tutors some of her former students while her home country, the Philippines, remains in quarantine.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Humayun draws inspiration from her parents, who belong to the Ahmadiyya Islamic reform group and are subject to discrimination in Pakistan, and from the refugees she tutors in English. Education policy also worries her. She said she felt “a responsibility” to represent the Muslim-American community in a positive way.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Ariel Gilreath School choice Expanding school choice through private-school vouchers has been a key part of Trump’s education policy, but he had little success in getting his most ambitious efforts passed by Congress. One early accomplishment came via the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

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