Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

and World History classes. Many of these teachers are the first in their family to go to college, and they can often relate to the experiences of their middle school students, even as they too gain confidence through teaching. In the process, the high school students end up strengthening their own skills. Not these two.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Yet the Brentwood Union Free School District suspended Martinez for more than six months. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year. In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Deciding what’s best for the nation’s schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It’s a scene that is replicated across the seven elementary schools and two high schools in this agricultural community of around 13,500 in California’s Central Valley. Students in a transitional kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in the Lindsay Unified district, work in small groups.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., ESSA leaves too much accountability up to the states, they argue, with little history to suggest that it’s warranted. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

In total, school districts in and around Kansas City work with several thousand homeless students each year. Assistance can take many forms, such as laundry services, tutoring and the waiving of ACT costs and graduation fees. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school. But it often involves transportation.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

If you want to ensure that students don’t leave elementary school illiterate, hire a personal tutor for academically-struggling 4th graders. Perfectly preparing a generation for its own history. Thinking about charter schools. But, plain and simple, retention hurts kids. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Cormack used to be principal of Quitman Elementary School, so Cormack has firsthand experience with cost-cutting. Clinton school officials have also delayed large purchases. Schools in the Carroll County district haven’t offered classes in foreign languages for four or five years, Superintendent Billy Joe Ferguson said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. Her parents hired a tutor to help her. Tyrone Colson is on the autism spectrum.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018, for the first time in district history, a majority of Sioux City’s 14,976 students, about 52 percent, were people of color. Even with plentiful low-skill jobs and with some immigrants running small businesses or finding better paid jobs as translators or tutors, poverty is still a reality among recent arrivals.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Until a decade ago, however, the group’s education experience was limited to after-school tutoring and a Head Start program in Puerto Rico. Baccaglini wanted to see if, by drawing on the agency’s long experience with traumatized kids and locating casework services within a school, the Foundling could make a difference.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She trawled the dictionary for new words and spent school bus rides proofreading friends’ papers. She tutored other kids from public housing. Most still read at an elementary school level. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

Danielle Floyd grew up in Highland Park and is a graduate of the now-closed Highland Park High School. When it came time to send her three children – including a cousin she’s raised from birth – to school, she first sent them to Highland Park’s Cortland Elementary School, which has since closed. Toney used new books.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

And the pandemic’s fits and starts in instruction are unprecedented in the history of American public education and have affected students unevenly. Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. Not all tutoring has been successful.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The Schenectady district fortified its five-year-old diversion program in 2021 when it started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems after they returned to in-person learning. Credit: Graphic courtesy of Schenectady City School District. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. The last day of the school year was followed by just a brief pause before classes started again for a wide range of programs financed by more than a billion dollars in federal funds under the American Rescue Plan. Lee en Español.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2024

Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and effective way to jumpstart lagging student performance post-pandemic. Educators strongly endorse tutoring, when done right, and believe it can help students make real academic gains. This could be a win-win.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. The basic assumption that underlies typical reading instruction in many schools is that learning to read is a natural process, much like learning to talk. . ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

educators that lost their gigs tutoring students in China online once that country put in new restrictions against such businesses. And last but not least, listeners gravitated to episodes we did that revisited the history of longstanding educational narratives and looked how we got here. Where did this idea come from?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. I was invited to come speak at school board … my message was primarily a message of gratitude to the school board … even though there was a long line of speakers who wanted to say how terrible a mask mandate was for our children.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We have classroom tutors now. Kami Karr , senior at Redmond High School. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved. And then you get into middle school, and then, like, the internet starts becoming a thing. Our district has realized some of our challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. “The juggle is real,” said Maranda Seawood, a student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. We had a tutor.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

Maraida Caraballo Martinez has been an educator in Puerto Rico for 28 years and the principal of the elementary school Escuela de la Communidad Jaime C. She never knows how much money her school in Yabucoa will receive from the government each year because it isnt based on the number of children enrolled.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Later that year, after widespread school closures, Trump issued an executive order allowing states to use money from a federal poverty program to help low-income families pay for private schooling, homeschooling, special education services or tutoring. Nirvi Shah Teaching about U.S.

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