The Hechinger Report

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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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.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

With new technologies and opportunities for help outside the classroom, like private tutoring or AI, wealthier students are often better equipped than their peers to enter college. Even if they received extra help, like a private tutor, theyve never had to ask for it. This is worse with younger students, Johnson says.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Log on to the website for the online tutoring company VIPKid , and a pop-up will appear asking visitors to select which part of the world they’re in. Screenshot from VIPKid homepage) Some of the tutoring companies shut down, with immediate effect. and Canada. and Canada. I keep my time slots open—5 to 10:30 a.m.

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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. Teaching assistants may sometimes feel like the Rodney Dangerfields of the classroom. But it was based on very few studies.

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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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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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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stories, feedback and support. While the latter may entertain, the former serve to educate. Recently, a new kind of tool has emerged.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

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. Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

. — Sebastian Basualto The Reinvent the Classroom initiative, a collaborative effort by Digital Promise in partnership with HP, Microsoft and Intel, stands at the forefront of this movement, aimed at transforming education through the strategic use of technology. This approach fosters a more interactive and engaged learning experience.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Last year, when concern over the pandemic’s effects on education was at its peak, school districts turned to high-dose tutoring, a regular and intensive form of small-group tutoring. There’s a lot of evidence that high-dose tutoring improves reading and math performance, such as this study from Brown University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’d already read many stories about ChatGPT in the news, and initially, I wasn’t concerned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) would impact my teaching. The reality is, as much as I love teaching my content, I don’t have the capacity to do the individualized planning to support every child’s learning.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Many writing centers are already jumping in to experiment with new AI tools, making the case both for the continued importance of writing instruction and for their place on campus as a hub for teaching AI literacy. “I Why do we need a required writing course if AI can do everything outside stakeholders want such a course to teach?,”

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ED Surge

APRIL 9, 2025

GenerationAI Coalition Partners: Center for Black Educator Development Computer Science Teachers Association Indigitize Latinos for Education National Education Association Playlab A focus on equity and fairness must thoughtfully address the circumstances and backgrounds of all the students in our schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

Evans, the CEO of education nonprofit Project Tomorrow , has found that educators across the country are grappling with the intertwined challenges of declining student engagement and persistent social-emotional issues.

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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., public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But their families have managed to give them a jump-start through additional after-school programs, tutors and other resources, he says. Students in upper-track math courses are no smarter or better at math than others. Meanwhile, San Francisco Unified argues that its emphasis on equity remains steadfast.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2022

They want to teach. They want to teach.” Scale Tutoring for the 1:1 Experience Scaled tutoring strategies can save teachers from needing to be in 30 places at once delivering 30 unique and personalized lessons. But we need to remember that teachers don’t want to be data analysts.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Community-based organizations, libraries, adult education programs, and community colleges across our Beacons are working together to incorporate technology to support their learners. When we talk with educators around the country, most, if not all, are clamoring for ways to best leverage education technology.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

Oftentimes, when it comes to technology and new innovations, folks move to a “good” or “bad” binary. If I’m in need of a tutor, or an editor, or a professor’s help, is that not “receiving assistance from another person”? In this case, not only is this tutor available on demand, but it’s also approachable, and mostly importantly, free.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. Generative AI has stormed into education. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

The last couple of years saw ample spending on tutoring in a rush to course-correct student performance. Department of Education has halted investigations into whether book bans around the country violate civil rights. Severe teacher shortages in the face of budget shortfalls have also hurt schools around the country.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. That experience showed me that high-dosage tutoring can't be the only tool we offer students after the disruptions of COVID-19.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In my first-ever job, I sat in front of a computer teaching English over the internet to a group of students in South Korea. My then-employer was part of the growing education industry in the Philippines. Tutoring companies have since formed and grown all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Canada, from the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school. In 10th grade, for some extra cash, Campbell signed up to tutor elementary school students through a literacy program in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2024

Yet noble individuals press forward and choose to educate our children anyway. As professors and researchers in university teaching and learning programs, we’re fascinated by this question. This better informs our understanding of how to get someone interested in teaching to then aid recruitment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2024

An AI tutor that helps middle and high schoolers become better writers. These aren’t tools created by education technology companies. An AI chatbot that walks students through how to solve math problems. An AI instructional coach designed to help English teachers create lesson plans and project ideas. Playlab.ai

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Stories about burnout, toxic positivity and putting respect back in the teaching profession were all exceedingly popular. Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

This fall, Martinez will become a bilingual teacher for students in kindergarten through eighth grade in Morgan Hill, a small city near San Jose, California, as part of the next Teach for America cohort. I’ve wanted to go into the teaching profession ever since then. Teaching did cross my mind. What motivates them?

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

And even the bill’s leaders say they can imagine positive uses for AI in teaching, and the bill wouldn’t stop colleges from using generative AI to help with tasks like grading or creating educational materials. The technology shown in the demo is not yet available, and is at least six months to a year away, according to Khan.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

There’s a push among AI developers to create an AI tutor , and some see that as a key use case for tools like ChatGPT. But one longtime edtech expert sees an even better fit for new AI chatbots in education: helping educators design course materials for their students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Teachers have said for decades that inflexibility on teaching, testing and innovation keep them from adapting to student needs. 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.

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