ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

Should AI chatbots be used as tutors? That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. The book is called “ Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing). ”

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APRIL 12, 2021

Understandably, reports indicating that higher education is heading toward a looming enrollment cliff have university administrators nervous. The remaining 58 percent represent an untapped resource for higher education. These students do not enroll at the same rate as students who are better prepared for college.

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TeachThought

JUNE 18, 2024

Online Learning Tools For Students: From AI Tutors To Smart Notebooks Technology has transformed how you interact with your educational materials. From AI tutors that provide personalized learning experiences to digital platforms that organize notes efficiently, these innovative tools are transforming traditional learning methods.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2019

In education, there is always an affinity to jump on board the latest tool or idea and automatically stamp the word innovation on it. School districts try to accommodate these special needs by working providing online courses, in-home tutors, special busing, video conferencing and more.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2025

This story about eighth grade algebra was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Department of Education spokesperson Alberto Betancourt.) Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education.

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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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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

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nation’s families recently received another clear message that our education system is not serving all students. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the “nation’s report card,” last month revealed the extent of the learning decline during the pandemic. They are exhausted. Students are frustrated.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We’re leading these schools.

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The Hechinger Report

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. The big question, of course, is whether these ChatGPT’s solutions help students learn math better than traditional teaching. I think that’s too many errors for students who are learning math.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded.

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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

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

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.” Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.”

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded $1 billion annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. Department of Education. Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

More than 90 percent of Code Next’s latest cohort of high school graduates advanced to higher education, the vast majority in STEM fields, according to a Code Next survey. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology. Who Isn’t Being Served?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. Flipped classrooms also free up class time for teachers to help students individually, as a tutor does. But like many trends in education, the novelty took hold before the evidence mounted.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Time spent finding materials is time not spent giving students feedback, tailoring existing lessons for students or giving students one-to-one tutoring help. Related: Education research, condensed. Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Sign up for Proof Points and other Hechinger newsletters.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

My then-employer was part of the growing education industry in the Philippines. Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Where are we going to find an additional year to make up for these kiddos before they leave the education system?” These companies may have a business motive in sounding an alarm to sell more of their products, but the reports are produced by well-regarded education statisticians. How am I going to factor?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2023

This story was produced by The Associated Press as part of a series, The Math Problem, from the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight  newsrooms that is documenting the math crisis facing schools and highlighting progress. Related: How can math education in America be improved?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Nation’s Report Card, with its bad news about National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP, math and reading scores, drove home a message long hinted at : The pandemic created disastrous academic deficits for U.S. Education during the pandemic was itself an educational experience, although not one that can be assessed by the NAEP.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Their questions highlight a deep gulf many low-income, first generation students face as they attempt to navigate the mysterious world of higher education. You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. Related: The end of “no excuses” education reform? Another wants to know it involves writing yet another essay.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Esports programs are growing at colleges across the country for their ability to attract and engage students—just like traditional sports. But higher education serves all kinds of students, and the gaming community isn’t exactly known as a bastion of inclusivity (remember Gamergate ?). They just help each other.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic-related topics, particularly the effectiveness of “high dosage” tutoring and the lack of strong research evidence for several other ideas to help students catch up, such as smaller classes. Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Some solutions in education are expensive. Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Higher Education. Department of Education. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it? Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But two recent academic papers, synthesizing dozens of reading studies, are raising questions about the effectiveness of these expensive education policies. There’s no litmus test for dyslexia and education experts say the diagnosis covers a range of reading problems. Meanwhile, it remains out of reach for many low-income families.

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ED Surge

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. He knew it would be easy; he said tests in his special education classes almost always were. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Some students have fallen behind, widening already existing inequities in education. Administrators are looking for ways to squeeze in more time for math help during the school day and are considering extending traditional school hours for tutoring. Beth Kobett, professor of education, Stevenson University. “We

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