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“Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. “We wanted to find all the studies and distill the main lessons so that decision makers can decide which programs to scale up and invest in.”

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JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. I really don’t think that they’re growing,” said Brown, who’s also president of the National Tutoring Association. “I Read the stories. This year it’s only 30 percent.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

A student at work with her tutor. When there aren’t enough teachers trained to teach students with disabilities, we fail the vulnerable students who most need educators’ help. Joining forces, we established the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education. Higher Education. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

As students return to school for the 2021-22 year, educators are thinking about how to teach children who have missed months of instruction because of the pandemic. Educators have long debated about the best way to catch up kids who have holes in their knowledge. They’ll need hours more planning time to do it well.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

The binders resemble, to a degree, the individualized education programs, or IEPs, that are at the heart of education for students with disabilities. But Arianna and Alanni aren’t special education students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming more prevalent everywhere, including in education spaces. Educators may sometimes wonder, “What is AI?” While AI has come a long way since the 1950s when the term was coined and work on Intelligent Tutoring Systems began, it simply cannot replace a teacher in the classroom.

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MAY 24, 2021

Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising. But tutoring can work equally well even when the school day isn’t lengthened. Extra time does mean that other activities — from physical education to art and coding — don’t have to be curtailed. What you do with the time matters.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. Related: Education research, condensed.

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JUNE 20, 2024

An AI instructional coach designed to help English teachers create lesson plans and project ideas. An AI tutor that helps middle and high schoolers become better writers. These aren’t tools created by education technology companies. and faculty at the Relay Graduate School of Education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Generative AI has stormed into education. Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better?

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JANUARY 27, 2020

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. Higher Education. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co., Weekly Update.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Experts say early educators are key to developing early math knowledge and noticing potential delays in math. Nobody uses the proper term for it, it’s not diagnosed frequently,” said Sandra Elliott, a former special education teacher and current chief academic officer at TouchMath, a multisensory math program. 17 at 8 p.m.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Sifting out solutions from the struggle may help solve chronic problems of quality and equity, say education experts. After a moment of disruption – of major disruption – the conditions are ripe for accelerating innovation,” says Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education. “We Learning from Lockdown.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

And it’s arriving on the scene at a time when math scores are at a national historic low and educators are questioning if math should be taught differently. It can help a teacher plan math lessons, or write a variety of math problems geared toward different levels of instruction. The tutor is called Khanmigo.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. This dynamic is significantly magnified within the education workforce. Recognizing and addressing these fears is crucial in smoothly navigating a major shift in education.

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JULY 20, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools. Benjamin W.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Then, as teachers had time to develop lesson plans and adjust to new curricula, student performance began to improve. Higher Education. Back in 2013, when New York was one of the first states in the nation to adopt Common Core standards and administer tougher tests, children’s test scores initially plummeted. Proof Points.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

It breaks up traditional courses into specific skills and abilities, called “competencies,” that students master through a personalized blend of traditional lesson plans, offline projects and real-world experiences. Finally, tutoring is available through four “skills coaches.”. Those ceremonies are amazing.

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JANUARY 7, 2017

PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. Most of these efforts are essentially cute toys with educational uses. Sophisticated programs can adjust to each student’s needs and pace, like a personal tutor.

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MAY 16, 2018

Related: Former educators answer call to return to school. Demand for AP classes, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, vastly outpaces the supply of qualified teachers, exacerbating educational disparities. “On Higher Education. However, many schools have failed to keep up. Weekly Update.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Higher Education. The Global Teaching Project, an initiative aimed at providing high-quality content to promising students, and the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access have launched a three-year pilot program to bring college-level AP courses to schools that lack certified teachers and course offerings.

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JUNE 14, 2016

“You have to think that you’re not dividing up the cookies, you are seeing how many times ¼ can fit into 12,” explained Juli Dixon, professor of mathematics education at the University of Central Florida. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S. Deborah Ball, dean University of Michigan School of Education.

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Becoming a History Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Teaching therefore presented itself as the natural answer to post-university next steps but, as I started my Initial Teacher Education course, I did not intend education to become a life-long career. We know that young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to access higher education.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Biden Administration has urged schools to use tutoring. Many schools have purchased an online version that gives students 24/7 access to tutors. Students never see their tutors or hear their voices. Low uptake The main problem is that on-demand tutoring relies on students to seek extra help. Very few do.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ever since the pandemic shut down schools almost three years ago, I’ve been writing about tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. I often get questions about research on tutoring. How effective is tutoring? In education, that’s a giant jump. How many schools are doing it?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The High School of Fashion Industries in New York City is one of thousands of schools around the country that are offering high-dosage tutoring to students. students are receiving this kind of intensive, daily tutoring, which can take place in person or virtually. So called “high-dosage tutoring” is more like the latter.

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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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AUGUST 1, 2022

Schools report that students are receiving more tutoring sessions when they’re scheduled during the school day without competing instructional activities at the same time. Tutoring is by far the most effective way to help children catch up at school, according to rigorous research studies.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Credit: Eugene Mymrin/ Moment via Getty Images One of the biggest problems with using AI in education is that the technology hallucinates. I also worry about teachers using ChatGPT and other generative AI models to write quizzes or lesson plans. It’s riskier when you’re asking students to learn directly from AI.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

During the 2016-17 school year, 71 schools in the state used online learning platforms, according to the Mississippi Department of Education. When he wasn’t at football practice, he spent most evenings last year at the Rosedale Freedom Project, taking advantage of the program’s free, in-person tutoring.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

inequality and innovation in education. I tell our students, it’s like tutoring,” she says. “If If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.” I tell our students, it’s like tutoring. If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. Sign up for?

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

percent decline in the grade 2 math skills it was trying to improve, having omitted to train educators on how to use the new resources effectively. Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools.

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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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DECEMBER 27, 2022

For years, the Fairfax County NAACP’s small education committee devoted itself mostly to fights over Confederate school names and acts of racism against individual students. The district gave all kindergarten through second-grade teachers scripted lesson plans featuring phonics. FAIRFAX, Va. —

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

STEM education, like scientific research, should be rigorous and demanding; an area where some failure is expected. The education system graduates disproportionately low numbers of Black, Latino, Indigenous and women students in STEM majors. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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APRIL 22, 2020

“Nobody knows the right path forward,” said Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education , a nonpartisan education research center in Seattle that has compiled an online database of coronavirus response plans provided by scores of districts across the country as a resource for other educators.

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JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. The last day of the school year was followed by just a brief pause before classes started again for a wide range of programs financed by more than a billion dollars in federal funds under the American Rescue Plan.

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