The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this file photo, a student reads in a Mississippi elementary school. In 2010, a year after Andrea Pastchal-Smith became principal of West Elementary School, formerly named West Oktibbeha County Elementary, the struggling school earned an “Academic Watch” rating from the state.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

One of the big ones is something called the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, and it tracks a national sample of students, from birth through elementary school. Imagine you’re a kid who’s getting a tutoring program, and suddenly, we’re pulling the plug. That means you’ve lost your tutor.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. Ewing said that a school is a community with instructors of different skill levels.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Schools are planning extended years, summer programs and tutoring sessions to address Covid-19 reading loss. It’s hard to even test where kids are, and in the ways they are [usually tested] in the classroom,” said Adeola Whitney, chief executive officer of Reading Partners, a nonprofit that focuses on reading support and tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.” Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Elsewhere in North Carolina, or in any other state in the nation, if you step into an elementary school, you might find three different classrooms teaching students three different ways to read.

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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., public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring.

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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.

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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.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math. Even after her daughter received a diagnosis, Jackson felt the girl’s school wasn’t supporting her enough.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. That just really solidified it for me.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The remainder of the enrichment time was occupied by reading (14 percent of the enrichment time), followed by before- and after-school programs (7 percent). In the diaries, relatively little time was spent being read to by parents, tutoring and other academic lessons, and on non-academic lessons, such as piano, soccer or driver’s ed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

More than 75 percent of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50 percent of high school math teachers said they did. “What I see happening is a lot of math teachers are rewriting a curriculum that has already been written,” said Zahner.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

At the start of each school year, for example, the class devotes a few days to trust-building exercises, not math. Northside Middle and Northside High have long-standing math intervention practices, such as tutoring and doubled-up math periods , that many districts across the county are just now rolling out.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The accelerated track in middle and high school drew mostly from elementary schools in affluent neighborhoods, where students tended to perform better on a pre-algebra placement test that they had one chance to take as fifth graders. This discovery prompted a series of changes, beginning about a decade ago.

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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. 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.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, recently posted a video demo of him using a prototype of his organization’s chatbot Khanmigo, which has these features, to tutor his teenage son. Even so, the video went viral and sparked debate about whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

Several programs aimed at keeping incoming freshmen on track for college and others that provide tutoring to elementary students are scooping up jobless undergraduates as mentors in relationships that benefit everyone. So he applied to the Tennessee Tutoring Corps. I had no second option lined up,” Oates said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

The last bell of the school day is when the work truly begins for staff at the Wisconsin Youth Company. Kids in about two dozen elementary schools across Dane County and Waukesha County in Wisconsin empty out of classrooms at the end of the day and make their way to gyms, cafeterias or media centers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

And schools start too early, when a significant portion of kids aren’t developmentally ready to learn crucial reading skills like decoding (converting letters into sounds). For this reason, in many countries , school, and formal reading instruction, doesn’t begin until age six or seven. Later, they multiply with decimals.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After that one morning session, Dunlap, a scientist who grew up in Japan, withdrew Annika from kindergarten at her local public elementary school in Fremont, California. Kindergarten, a foundational grade for young children, is typically the first year of elementary school, even in the 31 states where it isn’t required.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Schools nationwide are scrambling to find ways to recover unfinished learning over the past three years, using federal relief money to hire interventionists to work with students and placing students in high-dose tutoring sessions after school and during the summer. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Flipped classrooms also free up class time for teachers to help students individually, as a tutor does. classrooms, from city college campuses to suburban elementary schools. Advocates believe that students learn more when class time is spent actively learning instead of passively listening.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

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). Jacobs said he decided in elementary school, after seeing the passion that his mother — another teacher — had for her students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Matthews, a former tutoring aide who had just come to Rehobeth Elementary School, was used to working with students who needed some extra help with reading. And they’re expanding that expertise in developing a team of trained reading educators as they work on afterschool tutoring and community support. “If

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

A separate study of elementary school classrooms found that kids were “off-task” more than a quarter of the time. However, it’s also possible that interactive software, such as the Guru Tutor used in this experiment, is relatively more engaging. Solutions like that frighten me.

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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. Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school. Related: Civil rights at stake: Black, Hispanic students blocked from class for missing class.

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Edthena

JUNE 14, 2022

Moreno Valley Unified School District – Moreno Valley, CA. 15-year teaching veteran Heather Gardner has built strong relationships with students at Cloverdale Elementary School in Moreno Valley. Bering Strait School District – Elim, AK. Keller Independent School District – Keller, TX.

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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

MAY 26, 2021

Principal Margot Zahner’s vision for summer enrichment at Waterman Elementary School in Harrisonburg, Virginia, grows clearer every week. ” Related : Children will need summer tutors to make up for pandemic learning loss. Margot Zahner, principal, Waterman Elementary School in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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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. Our children are watching.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Our own reporting highlighted ways that North Carolina is among the states finding success with this method, following a new law that brings uniformity to reading instruction and training all of the state’s elementary school teachers in the science of reading. Recently, more than a dozen other states have passed laws pushing phonics.

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