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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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ( J-PAL ), an organization inside the economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scoured academic journals, the internet and evaluation databases and found only 113 studies on using technology in schools that were scientifically rigorous.

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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

MAY 30, 2023

Today, and for the last year or so, aspiring educators at American University are required to spend a minimum of 40 hours tutoring students in Washington, D.C., Earlier in their education programs, aspiring educators might engage with students in an after-school program or club. They’re hooked.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

The AI applications range from tutors supporting foundational knowledge gaps to social connection facilitators designed for online learners who might otherwise feel isolated. Scaling Solutions: Models like LDRA must be extended beyond pilot programs into full-scale implementations across diverse educational contexts.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they will stay in the classroom? Society has always been fascinated to learn about the motivations of famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians and how they came to their profession.

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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. Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year.

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The Hechinger Report

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. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co.,

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For years, the global learning platform Kahoot has been growing its foothold in the K-12 space through acquisitions and add-ons to its popular quiz platform. It’s the latest example of an established K-12 education company moving into the early childhood space. And no, it’s not more quizzes. Can he join?”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Zoom was even free for K-12 schools for a time. Under pressure from the end of federal relief money and declining student enrollment, some K-12 school districts now have to make tech cuts. At the end of September, federal relief dollars for K-12 schools are scheduled to sunset , though the U.S. The result?

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Having seen such positive changes firsthand, Elliott Levine , director of business development at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. , is excited about the newest technologies and their impact on the learning experience. Before transitioning to EdTech, Levine enjoyed 30 years working in various positions in K-12 and higher ed.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

That’s led to a frenetic rush to market educational tools as AI. But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism. The study , “How Teachers Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI in Their Classrooms,” interviewed 248 K-12 teachers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. During talks with a K-12 public charter school in Phoenix called Arizona State University Preparatory Academy, Khan thought he’d found a way to bring quality education to top students all over the world.

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JULY 20, 2023

This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools. Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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ED Surge

JULY 29, 2022

Meanwhile, school and district leaders continue to try to regain ground against so-called “learning loss” that occurred during the pandemic, investing in tutoring programs and summer school options. And that’s to say nothing of the impact of high inflation and record-high gas prices on schools.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

Designers tried to borrow tropes from video games, and in the demo, Ed enthusiastically says, “Alberto, you met your goal today,” and points to even more resources he could go to, including links to “Read a book,” “Get tutoring,” or “Find a library near me.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

And we heard from a K-12 teacher who was among the thousands of U.S. educators that lost their gigs tutoring students in China online once that country put in new restrictions against such businesses. When he was 12 years old he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. We Know How to Diversify STEM Fields.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. Cullum took Algebra II and trigonometry with Holifield, who even helped her to become a math tutor, one of her first jobs. Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Parents with means have always known that classroom learning isn’t enough, and have ensured their children have access to enrichment programs, mentors, internships, technological tools and private tutors. Most schools across the United States use some form of education technology.

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MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Collier’s contention that technology allows the teacher to spend more time working with some students individually is backed up by research. Higher Education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Working with one of the program’s tutors also boosted his skills in math, a subject he doesn’t enjoy very much. He’s been attending this after-school program for the last three years. Early on, Christian says, he was a little reserved and shy, but participating at the gym helped improve his communication skills.

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ED Surge

MAY 12, 2022

Over the last several months, EdSurge has interviewed dozens of K-12 teachers who work at least one other job outside of the classroom. Another tutors. So they seek out second jobs and side hustles, sometimes juggling several at once, to supplement their income. I amaze myself,” she says, sounding truly amazed. “I

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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? appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. And a lot of times [my child] has tutoring.

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JUNE 12, 2016

Perhaps more troubling results from that 12-year testing window: The achievement gap widened between students from low-income families and their more affluent classmates, and African-American and Latino students continued to lag far behind their white and Asian-American peers on the tests. Indeed, a 2013 report from the U.S

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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2023

“When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” And that's a little bit at odds with some of the current hype. There are a lot of problems with that.

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2024

But since September, she’s spent a couple of hours per day as a tutor through the California Volunteers College Corps, a state-funded partnership program that places college students into paid internships. She earns $700 per month, provided she tutors elementary students for at least 20 hours per two weeks.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

Click here to subscribe to EdSurge's weekly K-12, higher ed, or biz newsletters. Increase students’ access to tutoring, after school activities and interventions to help address lost instructional time. Boldly address opportunity and achievement gaps in PreK-12 schools.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But to Epstein, speedy spending won’t necessarily help the nation’s nearly 50 million K-12 students. One of those companies, the online tutoring service Paper, got $10.7 million from the Mississippi Department of Education to tutor students across the state’s 121 districts.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

Tang now works part time as a tutor at DuPont Elementary, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Before that, she worked in special education. Chheng Tang, a parent of three teenage students and one preteen, has found the free internet she gets through her school both relieving and, in a way, unsettling.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

For school districts desperate to find a life vest for students, one response was to rely on tutoring services. These services — particularly high-dose tutoring, an evidence-backed form of small group, intensive tutoring — had been identified as a way to fight against declining student performance. Sign up for our newsletters.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

billion in the hopes of closing achievement gaps in K-12 math education. The foundation has been putting money towards math education for some time, even winding down its language arts investments to do so. million in committed dollars, to date—funds Zearn, a nonprofit that runs a K-8 digital math platform.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

Teachers in K-12 schools are also beginning to push for similar protections against AI replacing educators. The National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union, recently put out a policy statement on the use of AI in education that stressed that human educators should “remain at the center of education.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Yet so far these tools have not really affected K-12 math classrooms. Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. Take AI tutoring service Thetawise, which estimates that it is used by nearly 143,000 students.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Findings from learning analytics research is also being used to help train new generative AI-powered tutoring systems. There is a transference of agency and power at every level of the education system, he said in a recent talk.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2025

A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. Young Companies and technologists are rushing to apply the latest AI chatbots to fulfill the long-held dream of building a personalized digital tutor. Experts say dual enrollment has grown so popular because its good for all parties involved: students, colleges and K-12 schools.

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JANUARY 12, 2025

However, Trumps enthusiasm for artificial intelligence now presents a unique opportunity to prepare K-12 students for an increasingly tech-driven world. The education technology industry has already witnessed firsthand how AI helps teachers and engages students in ways that make learning more personalized.

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