Elementary School Government Tutoring 
The Hechinger Report
JULY 15, 2024
Ever since the pandemic shut down schools in the spring of 2020, education researchers have pointed to tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. Researchers have previously found that it is important to schedule in-person tutoring sessions during the school day, when attendance is mandatory.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 5, 2025
Last month, my colleague Jill Barshay detailed potentially devastating cuts made to education research when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 89 contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences, a research arm of the Department of Education. One is evaluations of how the government spends its money.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 10, 2020
Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. Victor had made lots of progress in math since he began meeting twice a week with Carr at a Nashville-area Boys & Girls Club through an ad hoc, statewide tutoring initiative.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 7, 2023
“Here at school, we’re trying to not put the pressure at all on the students, but I know our third grade teachers really feel it,” Knapp said. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Because it is just one assessment.”
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 19, 2024
Elementary school students in grades two to six were making slow progress, and remained behind. This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. If you don’t show up to school, you’re not likely to catch up.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 24, 2020
Along with a lot of other parents, many of us have been approached about creating small groups of kids led by a babysitter or tutor, also known as “podding.” Related: Parents are panicking, giving up their careers and spending thousands of dollars on piecemeal solutions for the school year. All of it is expensive.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. On Saturdays, her students can get one-on-one tutoring.
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