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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. The federal government would eventually give schools almost $190 billion to reopen and to help students who fell behind when schools were closed.

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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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APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. And that’s when I said no.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

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MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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AUGUST 19, 2024

One high school math teacher told me that she thinks learning failed to recover and continued to deteriorate because schools didn’t rush to fill the gaps right away. 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.

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APRIL 30, 2017

This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. BOSTON — Every April, Match High School principal Hannah Larkin and the staff celebrate a few major college admission victories in the senior class.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun, recent high school graduate Benjamin Handelman notes that what is more helpful is for teachers to show enthusiasm for the subjects they teach and offer rigorous and engaging learning opportunities. Even students don’t like the go-easy-on-them approach.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Indiana is offering families grants of up $1,000 to support after-school tutoring. Idaho started a $50 million program so that eligible families can buy education-related items, from online instructional materials to tutoring services. Previously, he has worked in public policy and government affairs for both Tesla and Uber.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Retrieved from [link] The stats on school staffing might seem like a violation of the laws of supply and demand. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Students can also take the test again before the next school year to try and achieve a passing grade. Another provision allows students to move up a grade, as long as the school gives them tutoring for a full school year. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In addition, a growing array of “educator” roles — via community centers, after-school programs, camps and employer programs — can connect young people with counselors, coaches, mentors and tutors. Since young people spend more time out of school than in, it’s critical to recognize the education work done by providers outside schools.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Aya Hamza’s academic and extracurricular record at Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami should have made her path to college relatively effortless. Aya Hamza, a high school senior, with her father. Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami, which has nine college counselors for 3,000 students. “I

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AUGUST 8, 2022

Schools closed as variants surged through their communities. The script suddenly flipped during the 2021-22 school year as the federal government sent pandemic recovery funds to schools. The biggest areas of staff expansion were among substitute teachers, paraprofessionals or teachers’ aides, and tutors.

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JUNE 7, 2021

One high school study of small science classes concluded that class size had to fall to 10 or fewer students to reap academic gains. This wouldn’t be the first time that the federal government has spent gobs of money on smaller classes. Tutoring is a good research-proven place to start. That’s hardly practical.

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JULY 1, 2024

An equal number of high-poverty districts received less than $3,700 per student. These surprising differences for places with similar poverty levels occurred because pandemic aid was allocated according to the same byzantine rules that govern federal Title I funding to low-income schools.

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Linking this information to learner attributes helped us support students from different high schools or colleges who needed additional help before the exam. The AI applications range from tutors supporting foundational knowledge gaps to social connection facilitators designed for online learners who might otherwise feel isolated.

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MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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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.” We need city government, elected officials and businesses to start thinking about how to empower parent communities to provide off-day care for every family.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While district policies can provide opportunities for improving student achievement, our results suggest that this impact varies widely and requires strong school-level leadership and effort. No school governance model is predominant. It’s also clear that the laws governing school improvement must be revisited and strengthened.

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

Her first two years of high school, she cycled through three different schools. Nationally, just 50 percent of foster youth graduate high school by age 18, according to estimates, and 2 to 9 percent obtain a bachelor’s degree. Government programs have also freed up some financial support.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Guadalupe Hernandez, 13, argues being suspended for missing class did little to motivate him to regularly attend school. He says his attendance and grades improved after he received counseling, tutoring and medication to control his multiple behavior disorders. Most of those suspensions happened at Mohave High School.

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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. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When he fled Honduras for New Orleans two years ago, Carlos, now 16 and a high school junior, hoped for just two things: a quiet place to live and an opportunity to play real soccer on a real team. A high school squad, he thought, would be the best place to start. Few New Orleans high schools have soccer teams.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

They were also less likely to have been disciplined in school for misbehavior (like hitting or bullying). The federal government expressed some hope last year that mentorship and tutoring programs could play a role in helping students make up for academic ground lost during pandemic-forced remote schooling.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

I teach at Zama American Middle-High School , a Department of Defense school in Kanagawa, Japan. Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) dependent schools are run by the U.S. schools more broadly. Related: Schools on U.S. He also serves as a member of the National Assessment Governing Board.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Mikaela Johnson, with her mother, Ashley Johnson, faces uncertain high school plans because of the coronavirus pandemic and her family’s unstable housing situation. She currently works a clerical job for a government agency and drives cabs intermittently, while trying to launch a holistic wellness business. She paused.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As the public school system has teetered, already many parents across the country have turned to religious or private schools , or created smaller learning pods, hired private tutors or are considering play and learning programs that in some cases can cost close to $3,000 a month. Those who can’t afford any help face despair.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

I’d dropped out of high school when my daughter was born but had gotten connected to LaGuardia’s Fatherhood Academy , which supports young fathers by helping them to finish high school and more. I planned to earn my high school equivalency and then get out. I was content working as a barista.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

At a time when parents, politicians and universities all want more students to go to college and graduate on time, the idea of letting them take college courses while in high school seems a great solution. Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. a former assistant U.S.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

During the pandemic, school systems dramatically expanded the number of software products they used as companies offered free subscriptions for a limited time and the federal government showered districts with emergency funding, he said. But many of the products weren’t high quality. But I think that’s on us to figure out.”

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MARCH 17, 2021

But when it comes to learning, he’s grown to love an environment much closer to home: surrounded by extended family members in a small, salmon-colored building just down the road from his house, where tutors and adults in his tribe have taught him since last fall. High school students can take a Native American history class.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

After decades working with families of high school kids, the federal program extended its model this year to provide support through the first year of college. Aranda is also part of a Facebook group with other parents of first-generation college students, whom he met through a federal government program called Gear Up.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I Guidelines put out by the U.S.

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JUNE 26, 2018

When Mosi Zuberi learned that his 18-year-old son, Kaja, might not graduate from McClymonds High School in Oakland, he anguished over his parenting missteps, wondering where he had gone wrong. After multiple suspensions, Kemp’s son dropped out of high school during his junior year.

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