The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. Education researchers have a particular kind of tutoring in mind, what they call “high-dosage” tutoring. The best results occur when tutoring takes place at school during the regular day.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Neil Heffernan, a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, came up with the idea in 2016 after a Maine middle school math teacher, Chris LeSiege, uploaded hundreds of hints he had written for solving textbook problems to Heffernan’s free online homework help website, ASSISTments.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

Amid the chaotic deluge of new generative AI tools, claims and calamities inundating school leaders, Carnegie Learning has been all in on AI for nearly 25 years. Of course, the technology wasn’t as advanced as today, but it was still an artificial intelligence-driven, adaptive learning-driven product. And grow, they have.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Not in fifth grade, but years later, when I was in middle school and high school, I did meet students who were just learning English as their second language. In college, during my experience [tutoring] at the elementary school, I had a student who inspired me. That just really solidified it for me.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

As a computer scientist and a former middle-school math teacher, I believe strongly that we can marry the promise of new technology and evidence-based instructional practices to address inequities in our public school system. Nightly online homework, monitored by a teacher, may help to close achievement gaps.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

Pricila Cano Padron, of Dallas, Texas, remembers her “wake-up call” in middle school, when she helped tutor English-learning classmates in math and reading (she is bilingual). Janae Montgomery, of Brusly, Louisiana, can’t recall a singular moment but says she always remembers wanting to be a teacher when she grew up.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

On the opposite end of the Lone Star State in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Principal Anabel Ibarra likewise developed a plan for culture change at Bowie Middle School. Our advisory teacher is supposed to be the one person who is making sure that you're getting the correct tutoring for all the subjects,” Ibarra says.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

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. We’re going to have to be a little more nimble than we’ve been in the past.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. The mainstream may not fully recognize them, but that hasn’t stopped Black changemakers with a grassroots appeal, like former DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

They were also less likely to have been disciplined in school for misbehavior (like hitting or bullying). The federal government expressed some hope last year that mentorship and tutoring programs could play a role in helping students make up for academic ground lost during pandemic-forced remote schooling.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles. Geographical barriers are dissolved , granting global access to high-quality education for students from diverse backgrounds. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

It really didn't hit me until probably middle school. But in middle school, it was around 2014, when there were a lot of newcomer students who didn't understand English. I was stuck on the idea for probably the second half of my senior year of high school. Was there a specific moment or a story? I actually did.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In early middle school, by the time my parents struggled to assist with math homework, I began to compare myself to my maternal grandfather, Aladin Perkins, a retired electrical engineer who had little patience for dullards. Like in many other cases, it was born of a feedback loop.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.

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ED Surge

MAY 12, 2022

Most of the other teachers in her school have outside jobs as well. Another tutors. “I amaze myself,” she says, sounding truly amazed. “I I don’t know how I do it.” One is a travel agent on the side. Another sells cosmetics. Others sell clothes for a boutique. But it’s not really something people fuss about. Nicole Gray.

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The Hechinger Report

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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Schools and districts pay for extra services like teacher training or printed versions of their digital lessons. The nonprofit’s curriculum is also part of statewide tutoring programs in Tennessee and Texas. Digital curriculum makes up one part of the transformation that Gates is looking to make in math education.

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