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? One possible solution?

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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

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

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

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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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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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

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

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

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 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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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S.

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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.

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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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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

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 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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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

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

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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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

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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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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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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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

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. The most dramatic example came in May, when Chegg’s falling stock price was blamed on chatbots.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Schools are required to use at least 20 percent of their funds to address learning loss and ensure that students have access to high-quality educational opportunities. This can include investments in tutoring, summer programs and other interventions that help students catch up and regain their footing.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

After starting with MATHia , an adaptive AI tutor that personalizes instruction for middle and high school students, Carnegie Learning branched out last year into AI-based tools for literacy, languages, tutoring and even professional learning for teachers and leaders. And grow, they have.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

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. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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