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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.—but

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

He says that new chatbots have the potential to revolutionize learning if they can deliver on the promise of being personal tutors to students. And it’s possible that those other parts of what makes us human may need to be simulated as well for something like tutoring to be most effective, he suggests.

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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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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

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. Tutoring became a leading solution for academic recovery and schools contracted with outside companies to provide tutors.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Instead, scaffolding that helps support teachers, like before- and after-school tutoring, would let students return to class more easily, he argues. Also, greater instructional assistance could take some of the pressure off teachers. “I

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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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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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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

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 12, 2024

And in the past, administrators at some colleges have replaced their services with all-encompassing tutoring centers or third party organizations, Wynn Perdue adds. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says. Johnson and her team train their tutors to teach students about how AI can be useful in the writing process.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Education technology with built-in lesson recommendations, like WordFlight , can provide teachers with instant access to a detailed view of each student’s progress, including insights about which concepts or skills students should learn next and which of their classmates are ready to learn those concepts too.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Examples include whole child learning models, blended learning models and high-dose tutoring ones. Ultimately, the nonprofit hopes that the exchange will speed up the adoption and development of attempts to transform education by making it cheaper and easier to explore them. But it has taken time for districts to hear them out.

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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

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

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

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

JANUARY 29, 2025

The last couple of years saw ample spending on tutoring in a rush to course-correct student performance. At the time, officials described the drops as appalling and unacceptable and states wrestled over whose performance was worst.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

LeSiege believed his prewritten hints and explanations were helping his students and Heffernan wondered if all students might benefit from having a virtual tutor hover over their shoulders during homework time. Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Generative AI has stormed into education. Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Copur-Gencturk spent two years building the dataset that would eventually train the AI tutor.

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ED Surge

APRIL 9, 2025

Rather, participants engaged in conversations about jobs of the future, the difference between learning about and with AI, the implications of using AI with tutoring, considerations around academic integrity and the risk of misinformation. In the GenerationAI Community of Practice, we didnt spend time on one specific tool.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In theory, education technology could redesign school from a factory-like assembly line to an individualized experience. Researchers are starting to see good results in using differentiated practice work in combination with tutoring. Computers, powered by algorithms and AI, could deliver custom-tailored lessons for each child.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The American Rescue Plan requires local education agencies (LEAs) to spend at least 20 percent of federal funding on evidence-based initiatives to mitigate the issue. Summer and after-school programming, tutoring, truancy intervention, teacher hiring and training, and improved data systems are all part of the solution.

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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.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

AI transcends the mere provision of answers; it offers real-time tutoring support to students, guiding them through the learning process. AI transcends the mere provision of answers; it offers real-time tutoring support to students, guiding them through the learning process.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. Some will keep tutoring, even if they are driven underground or are forced to take lower rates. “We We cannot let schools be those spaces.”

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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

Below are a few of the hypotheses I am watching in 2023: Hypothesis 1: Results Matter Education buyers—parents, schools, and talent development departments—will make more decisions based on efficacy and fewer based on relationships with vendors.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Online homework tools provide teachers with rich, targeted data about where students are struggling, which allows educators to tailor assignments to the specific needs of students. That kind of instructional practice resembles what you see with one-on-one tutoring and can be a powerful lever for improving teaching and learning.

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