The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Kathy Neumann’s third graders at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, struggled to understand fractions during this pandemic-disrupted school year. Administrators are looking for ways to squeeze in more time for math help during the school day and are considering extending traditional school hours for tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In other cases, where academic struggles or bullying was to blame, tutoring and counseling helped re-engage students and keep them in class. asked Ali, now principal of El Dorado High School in Chandler. El Dorado High School in Chandler, Ariz., Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. Time spent finding materials is time not spent giving students feedback, tailoring existing lessons for students or giving students one-to-one tutoring help.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Elementary school students in grades two to six were making slow progress, and remained behind. It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. If you don’t show up to school, you’re not likely to catch up. One is phonics. Chronic absenteeism is another big factor.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Pricila Cano Padron, of Dallas, Texas, remembers her “wake-up call” in middle school, when she helped tutor English-learning classmates in math and reading (she is bilingual). Each story — each person — is unique.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. Here, the former elementary classroom teacher and math teacher advisor shares her thoughts on personalizing learning for individuals’ needs—and her school’s preferred platform for doing just that.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The teachers keep a close eye on this data and use it to develop small-group activities that make the material come to life — such as working at the virtual reality stations — or to identify the students who failed to master the lessons on their own and pull them out for extra tutoring. Right now, most do not. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families can spend their ESAs on almost any education-related expenses, such as private school tuition, tutoring and homeschool supplies. Now, the recent rise in tuition may price more Arizona families out of the nation’s most expansive experiment in school choice.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2021

Principal Margot Zahner’s vision for summer enrichment at Waterman Elementary School in Harrisonburg, Virginia, grows clearer every week. Related : Slim research evidence for summer school. School districts are moving ahead despite such concerns. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

While students have lots of time to play, they also learn traditional and rigorous academic material during the school year. Pathfinder teacher Stevens, who started teaching elementary school in Washington in 2001, also remembers a more academic kindergarten, devoid of the toys and play areas you see in her classroom today.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly every classroom at Story Creek Elementary School offers sweeping views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains that surround the Gallatin Valley here in southwest Montana. A bulldozer sits idle during a break on construction of new homes near Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont. BELGRADE, Mont.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. At one table, the conversation turned to the growing pains of changing course from the traditional “sage on a stage” teaching model, where a teacher holds forth at the front of the classroom while students listen, to a student-focused, personalized model. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. After school, staff and tutors work individually and in small groups of six or seven with teens deemed most at risk for not graduating. What’s his name?” But students wouldn’t go.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Schools and districts pay for extra services like teacher training or printed versions of their digital lessons. The nonprofit’s curriculum is also part of statewide tutoring programs in Tennessee and Texas. One such proposal is to bring data science into high school math curriculum while deemphasizing more-traditional math pathways.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Too often, by the time these students reach high school, problems that began in the early grades have reached a point of no return; too many children are pushed out into the real world ill-prepared for what lies ahead. By the time those students reach high school, they may be several grade levels behind their peers, with the clock ticking.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.” In eighth grade, only 19 percent of Oakland Unified School District students were grade-level proficient in math, compared to 29 percent of students statewide. It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods.

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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

MARCH 5, 2018

“We want to stop that disconnection, catch them before they become opportunity youth,” said Jerome Jupiter, the former schoolteacher who heads up YEP’s educational arm, which combines tutoring with case management. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible. But I was a chatterbox.”.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

The burdens that come with being retained are borne primarily by those students whom already are traditionally-disadvantaged by existing schooling practices. If you want to ensure that students don’t leave elementary school illiterate, hire a personal tutor for academically-struggling 4th graders.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

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. School offices across the district were decorated for Christmas and holiday concerts were planned, many chock full of traditional Christmas carols.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

His high school placed him on a track to get an alternative diploma, which would have made it impossible for him to enroll in most colleges or apply for most jobs. high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. She trawled the dictionary for new words and spent school bus rides proofreading friends’ papers. She tutored other kids from public housing.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

One of the most rigorous summer school studies looked at an unnamed Northeastern city that made summer school mandatory to elementary school children who failed year-end tests. Slavin advocates fusing summer camp with intensive, daily tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Katie Humphrey, the seventh grade counselor at Columbia Middle School, tries to normalize the idea of asking for mental health support to both children and parents. “I I tell our students, it’s like tutoring,” she says. “If If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

Bethel Elementary School students get a break from reading and math lessons with an engineering activity during summer school in Simpsonville, S.C. Fourth and fifth grade students work on an engineering activity using toothpicks and tape to build bridges during summer camp at Bethel Elementary School in Simpsonville, S.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

But the pandemic also opened a door: All Tulsa schools closed when Covid hit, according to Andrea Castañeda, the district’s chief innovation officer. Related: How to improve schooling during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to students. The question now, she said, is: “How do we redesign school schedules?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2016

Steve Collins, Jackson Public Schools Parent of the Year for 2016, helps McLeod Elementary School students in the carpool line. 1st Class Steve Collins opens every third set of doors in the carpool line at McLeod Elementary School; the two other volunteers to his right get the first and second cars. JACKSON, Miss.

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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. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Berta Romero is a counselor for English learners at Mary Harris Mother Jones Elementary school in Prince George’s County, Maryland. READ THE STORY: Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation. I tell our students, it’s like tutoring,” she says. “If Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

At Match, the finish line won’t come till the end of May, when seniors reveal their college choices at a dramatic “signing day” ceremony before family members, counselors, tutors and nearly all the adults in their spacious and sunny school building.

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