The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2023

After a year of short-burst tutoring, more than double the number of kindergarteners hit an important reading milestone. Researchers are tracking the children to see if the gains from this cheaper and quicker version of high-dosage tutoring are long lasting and lead to more third graders becoming proficient readers. Some exceed $4,000.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

Since the sudden arrival of ChatGPT just a few months ago, there’s renewed interest in using AI chatbots as tutors. Some researchers are exploring one that might sound trivial but actually could be quite thorny: What should these computer-generated educational assistants look and sound like?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After the pandemic, the nationwide adoption of online high-dose tutoring was expected to address deepening educational disparities. Additionally, it gained attention for its ability to provide high-quality education in regions with inadequate supplies of teachers, especially in higher-grade STEM education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Log on to the website for the online tutoring company VIPKid , and a pop-up will appear asking visitors to select which part of the world they’re in. Screenshot from VIPKid homepage) Some of the tutoring companies shut down, with immediate effect. and Canada. and Canada. I keep my time slots open—5 to 10:30 a.m.—but

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2023

School districts around the country have rolled out tutoring programs at a feverish pace with the help of federal relief funds, intent on helping struggling students get back on track academically after the disruption caused when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools. The organization picked a diverse set of nine districts to study.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

Recent National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores dipped to the lowest theyve ever been, falling two points on average for fourth and eighth graders. They also may find playing the game off-putting, she says, or havent had access to technology that can help them, like online tutoring sites, a good laptop or AI programs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Teaching aides are at least as effective in tutoring as licensed teachers, and far more effective than volunteer tutors, research shows Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. And both sets of paid professionals—aides and teachers—were far more effective than volunteer tutors. But it was based on very few studies.

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ED Surge

APRIL 14, 2022

Getting tutoring at Arkansas State University has long been easy. A student could just walk into a campus tutoring center and get help from a tutor, on demand—for free. And sometimes tutors were sitting waiting to help, but no students came in to get the benefit. It has increased our availability for every subject.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Among the surprising answers is that colleges and universities are charging more for online education to subsidize everything else they do, online managers say. Yet 83 percent of online programs in higher education cost students as much as or more than the in-person versions, an annual survey of campus chief online learning officers finds.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The core of teaching is instruction and helping kids grow and develop, and anything that pulls teachers away from that purpose is going to make them unsatisfied, says Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the study. Using data from the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education. Topics around how AI fits into education continued to draw listeners this year, including our interview with Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy, about his groups new AI chatbot tutor.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Some educational materials end up mothballed in closets. One idea for smarter education spending is for schools to sign smarter contracts, where part of the payment is contingent upon whether students use the services and learn more. Many educators worried that billions could be wasted on low-quality tutors who didn’t help anyone.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Last year, when concern over the pandemic’s effects on education was at its peak, school districts turned to high-dose tutoring, a regular and intensive form of small-group tutoring. There’s a lot of evidence that high-dose tutoring improves reading and math performance, such as this study from Brown University.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Those who were enrolled in — or considering enrolling in — American University’s School of Education said they wanted more classroom experience, more opportunities to practice their craft before being released to do it alone every day to a room full of kids. Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring. Wish granted.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Perhaps counterintuitively, Heid thinks that a new tutoring program they’re piloting in Polk County will help to ease some of that burden. In turning to tutoring services, the county is hardly unique. An estimated 40 percent of schools plan to use their federal relief dollars on tutoring.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Adult educators are getting more and more excited as they see growing evidence of technology’s potential for improving learning for adults. Community-based organizations, libraries, adult education programs, and community colleges across our Beacons are working together to incorporate technology to support their learners.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

The recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that only 31 percent of 4th graders and 30 percent of 8th graders were reading at or above a proficient level. To address the current reading crisis effectively, educators might also benefit from a slight shift in mindset. Dr. Julie A.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

But who was—or is—the Theranos of the education sector? As John Warner referenced in 2018 , AltSchool sought to create “technology-infused schools that would revolutionize education;” in brass tacks, Ventilla and his team sought to create a network of microschools buoyed by a technology platform containing self-paced courses and curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. And the pandemic’s fits and starts in instruction are unprecedented in the history of American public education and have affected students unevenly. The best results occur when tutoring takes place at school during the regular day.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But while that may sound like typical Silicon Valley hype, the education system is taking it seriously. For edtech firms, this partly means figuring out how to prevent their bottom line from being hurt, as students swap some edtech services with AI-powered DIY alternatives , like tutoring replacements. What Do Educators Want From AI?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

A federally mandated evaluation of student performance, the National Assessment of Educational Progress known as the nations report card is considered one of the most accurate glimpses at student learning in the country. The last couple of years saw ample spending on tutoring in a rush to course-correct student performance.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Performing the Autopsy Proponents of the detracking effort see themselves as fighting against the tide of the countrys education system and, even more difficult, its culture. It connects to long-standing inequalities in the education system: Anytime theres an increase in learning diversity, our system segregates, he says.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There’s a greater appetite to try new educational models as schools try to adjust to the social and emotional needs of students returning from periods of pandemic lockdowns and other disruptions of the past few years. The nonprofit hopes that the database will shake up the education system.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Fortunately, the education sector had time to smooth out some of these wrinkles, especially with improved connectivity and advancing technology such as artificial intelligence (AI). Having seen such positive changes firsthand, Elliott Levine , director of business development at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. ,

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing centers on college campuses have been around for more than 100 years , and they’re both a resource for students doing assignments and a symbol of the importance in higher education of learning to express yourself in text. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. EdSurge: What types of data do higher education institutions find most difficult to access, and why? The first issue is [the existence of] data silos.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. That experience showed me that high-dosage tutoring can't be the only tool we offer students after the disruptions of COVID-19.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

If we don’t empower educators by providing support, skills and relevant, job-embedded professional learning, we risk that too few teachers will join and remain in the profession. We must invest in our teachers. They should also ensure that classroom tools provide engaging, relevant, personalized and effective experiences for students.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

I’m a former educator in the process of writing my dissertation for my Doctorate of Education, as part of a part-time program while working a full-time job at Google. Oftentimes, when it comes to technology and new innovations, folks move to a “good” or “bad” binary. Upon reading it, I took a pause.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Unsurprisingly, the pandemic featured prominently in the higher education stories most popular with EdSurge readers last year. What Does That Mean For Higher Education? How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education. Is a Parallel Higher Education System Emerging? By Jeffrey R. By Jeffrey R.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT became publicly available in November 2022, the field of higher education has been focusing on its impact and applications — faculty want to understand how this will shape their work and the student experience. Our goal is to understand how the patterns of usage shape the interpersonal dynamics of the group members.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. Much of the educational software was actually used inside school buildings, not only at home.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Here’s a look at how this plays out in the minds of educators. The presenter was exhorting us all to be the kind of educator who would breathe that rarified air at the top of the pyramid — to be the people who do whatever it takes. I have been an educator for over 17 years and an instructional coach for nearly 10 years.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Earlier this year, studies confirmed what many educators already knew: Students have suffered substantial academic setbacks resulting from the pandemic. The American Rescue Plan requires local education agencies (LEAs) to spend at least 20 percent of federal funding on evidence-based initiatives to mitigate the issue.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

There are even ongoing debates among educators about whether all the assignments help students learn much. LeSiege believed his prewritten hints and explanations were helping his students and Heffernan wondered if all students might benefit from having a virtual tutor hover over their shoulders during homework time.

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