The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. It took state and local governments seven years to restore their tax bases, muster the political will to approve spending increases and send the money to schools. On Saturdays, her students can get one-on-one tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2019

Attempts at addressing the wealth gap, which stems from the history of slavery, segregation, racism and discrimination, should be encouraged and lauded. Richer families can afford more tutoring, test prep and enrichment activities. Each year, the government would make contributions based on the child’s family size and income.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Two of the most powerful tailwinds right now are the committed teachers who show up for their students every day and the over $160 billion the federal government is investing in our schools. When I reflect on when I was tutoring under-resourced kids in the 1990s, I can see how much progress we have made in just a few decades.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Tutors danced. That’s the next big challenge after years of being pushed, prodded and prepped for higher education at Match High, where students are selected by lottery and get individual tutors for help with a tough college-prep curriculum. dean of students Robert Hendricks exclaimed. Teachers clapped.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

She currently works a clerical job for a government agency and drives cabs intermittently, while trying to launch a holistic wellness business. Assistance can take many forms, such as laundry services, tutoring and the waiving of ACT costs and graduation fees. But it often involves transportation.

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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. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2021

One of the big issues is that we don’t believe everything the government and doctors tell us — we’ve learned our lesson throughout history.”. A tutor hired by his mother, Mercedes Powell, helped fill in any gaps. He prefers studying online; there are fewer distractions and he can focus better. I didn’t before the pandemic”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Reardon, a sociologist, says the growing achievement gaps he has found stem from increasing income inequality in our society and the decisions of many rich parents to invest more in their kids, from private tutors to after-school programs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

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. It would require roughly $18 billion in additional funding for the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

While the tutoring and on-the-run support that have replaced it may smooth their paths, at least one university president wonders whether future engineers will sufficiently master the calculus they need. Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

. — In front of the iconic Old Manse, the oldest building in Arkansas constructed solely for the purpose of educating black students, there’s a plaque recounting the rich and poignant history of Arkansas Baptist College. But new federal data show that, six years later, none of those students at Arkansas Baptist had graduated.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She tutored other kids from public housing. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. Pierre, the student who left LSU for the Air Force, had a good job working in the executive branch of the federal government. psychology class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help. Another deal with Berea College brought close to a dozen AmeriCorps volunteers into the school to act as tutors and help support students through tough personal issues. Parents know their kids’ only shot at escaping poverty is the county’s public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Government is kind of leading from the rear here. Ideally, we’d be doing extended day or have tutors. It feels like we are living in this weird dystopia. Sharahn Santana, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The main story out of Fremont?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Have governments spent enough money to meet the unexpected and very steep costs of the last year? Experts — and history — suggest that school districts need much more than what federal and state governments have provided so far. Any decline in revenues for state and local government is going to be a huge hit to K-12 schools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We have classroom tutors now. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. In the second year, you get a lot of time to do the governing. Our district has realized some of our challenges. They have put extra support in place to support us. Every day there are more adults.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

But this next chapter in our country’s education history must dwarf those efforts. Increase students’ access to tutoring, after school activities and interventions to help address lost instructional time. To be clear, the federal government can’t solve all of the country’s education challenges, and we shouldn’t try.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Related: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling. This was a man-made disaster, not an inevitable consequence of COVID,” Hartney, whose book “ How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and American Education ” will be published this fall, said in a statement.

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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. Related: How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up. That windfall sent educators scrambling this spring to find the best ways to spend it.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Cara Fitzpatrick When I read this book, I learned some fascinating and frankly ugly things about the history of school choice in the U.S. There’s also this rise of ESAs (education savings accounts) where you could pay for online classes or tutoring or tuition. It’s very flexible.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

While the university’s grim history has been known for years, it was only in 2015 that Georgetown President John DeGioia announced the formation of a Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation to “establish a dialogue on Georgetown’s historical ties to the institution of slavery.” It’s been a long time coming.

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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. Tapping into the $1.2

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. My coping mechanism to respond to some of the uncertainty in the larger system is appealing to government or quasi government agencies as well as personal physicians that can help me just know that I’m doing the right thing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The island has faced corruption and mismanagement in local government, billions of dollars in debt and mass emigration that has caused a critical loss of professionals and essentially halved the island’s student population in 15 years, from almost 550,000 in 2006 to 276,413 in 2021. We’ve never seen such a need in the history of Puerto Rico.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 1, 2025

While searching for a space to pray inside the crowded mosque courtyard, I wondered whether the security spectacle was meant to dishearten the acts of defiance sparked by Gazas bombardmentacts that had briefly challenged the governments repressive hold. Yet, this history continued bleeding into the present. The rest is history.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. The manager was given all the powers of the local governing board. Math and literacy tutors showed up once a week, or just once a month.

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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. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations. But what are they teaching here?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Students aren’t benefiting much from tutoring, one new study shows Despite billions in federal funding during the pandemic, a new study shows that tutoring to help students catch up on learning losses hasn’t yielded great results, reports Hechinger columnist Jill Barshay.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Edna Posadas-Ingles tutors some of her former students while her home country, the Philippines, remains in quarantine. It would have been worse if the federal government had not extended nearly $100 billion in aid to schools: Another 275,000 education jobs could have been lost. History from a teacher working in another district.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

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. The education agency the largest unit of government on the island, with the most employees and the biggest budget was set up so that the central office had to sign off on everything.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A student group committed to free markets and limited government gave students at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history,” she said. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history.”. a chance to express their thoughts on the election. Trump had won. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But she promised to work with Congress to do so acknowledging some limits on the presidents authority as Trump seeks to remake the government through executive orders. The federal government is barred by law from setting local curriculum, as Republican Sen. Day and Black History Month should be permitted, after Murphy noted that U.S.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s. Walz also required every state agency, including the department of education , to appoint tribal-state liaisons and formally consult with tribal governments.

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