ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. D to her pupils, sits at a table with one of the young students she tutors as they clap and sing as part of their lesson. Perez started tutoring students around the time the COVID-19 vaccine made it safe to meet in-person. Shes also one of the people having the most fun.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amira is the namesake of an AI reading program that aims to improve reading ability by giving kids a personal literacy assistant and tutor. Artificial intelligence has been used for years in education to monitor teaching quality , teach classes , grade assignments and tailor instruction to student ability levels.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2021

Accomplishing this feat also requires educators to take into account when and where students learn. In the lead-up to a curation of a vast amount of research, UNESCO stated the following: In today’s world, education systems must constantly evolve in order to effectively respond to the rapidly changing demands of the societies they serve.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results from last year returned historically big declines in scores for fourth and eighth graders in math, leading to fears that catching students up would prove difficult. What’s better, the improvements lasted: One-to-two years after tutoring, the bump was still there.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. 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. It’s a long road of recovery.” Read the stories.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

But the truth is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to educate children in the face of such radical technological and pedagogical progression.” Artificial Intelligence Tutors Artificial Intelligence (AI) tutors will provide personalized learning experiences for each student, adapting to their learning styles and need in real-time.

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MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. The problem is that this kind of frequent tutoring is very expensive and it’s impossible to hire enough tutors for the millions of American public school students who need help.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

This year has also highlighted another educational challenge: the lack of effective literacy instruction in many of our K-2 grade classrooms. Thanks to professor Robert Slavin’s research at Johns Hopkins University, we know that one-on-one tutoring using an evidence-based program is a quick, effective way to increase students’ literacy.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. Like hundreds of school districts, Aspire purchased an online tutoring service for the spring of 2021 to help these students.

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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

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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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Spaces feature enables teachers to create customized spaces (think “tutors”) students can use on any topic or standard. This is in addition to the dozens of other AI tools embedded in the platform from co-teachers to exit tickets, School AI really has it all! Snorkl snorkl.app When students speak, they learn more.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2024

He took college classes for credit, received tutoring and advising and learned about other services available on campus and where to find them. “I Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. It’s a stubborn and complicated question. “I

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Related: PROOF POINTS: The chronic absenteeism puzzle Educators see students lagging academically post-pandemic — yet have failed to seize the opportunity to offer them something exciting and new to propel them back into learning. Instead, we’ve proposed interventions like high-intensity tutoring and extending the school year.

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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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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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2014

Other potential outcomes will be an ability to use this 3D virtual learning environment to offer home instruction, keep school open virtually during snow days, flip the classroom, tutoring, and enrichment activities. educational technology Laura Fleming New Milford High School Proton Media Protosphere virtual reality'

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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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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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TeachThought

AUGUST 17, 2024

Education has gone beyond acquiring knowledge to acquiring skills using EdTech tools; students learn digital literacy, teamwork, and critical thinking skills. Thus, tech serves as an additional tool for navigation, similar to how tutors and experts at a professional coursework writing service assist with developing writing skills.

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MARCH 18, 2024

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 The tutoring seemed to harm them. billion in grants between 2010 and 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In-class tutors and data chats at her middle school in Compton, California, have made a dramatic difference, the 11-year-old said. She proudly pulled up a performance tracker at a tutoring session last week, displaying a column of perfect 100 percent scores on all her weekly quizzes from January. A tutor helps students at Benjamin O.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Last month, my colleague Jill Barshay detailed potentially devastating cuts made to education research when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 89 contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences, a research arm of the Department of Education. That means you’ve lost your tutor. Is it working?

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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly higher education newsletter. This also fuels an industry of private college counselors, tutors and test prep companies. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Listen to our higher education podcast.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2021

Robert Slavin, a Johns Hopkins School of Education professor, sought to improve the quality of education research and wanted schools to use evidence to guide instruction. It’s an audacious idea to give daily tutoring — something that seems too expensive for many upper middle class families — to impoverished children.

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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

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

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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