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As final year of college planning unfolds at Match: ‘What’s it gonna take?’

The Hechinger Report

You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. But Match is also trying some ideas that stand out from the now-familiar charter model, including a personalized, “high-dosage” tutoring model that it developed, which is geared to identifying the individual weaknesses of each student, as well as their strengths. Photo: Liz Willen.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

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Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds. Schools hired additional counselors, interventionists (a fancy name for tutors), and aides, and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. The third act was a pandemic-fueled “hiring bonanza.”

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Education Needs a Reset. We Can Start by Listening to Our Teachers.

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Here in my home state of Florida , we are arguing about how to teach history and whether we can acknowledge the gender identities of students. Still, the challenges we face in our public education system rank right up there with war in Ukraine in the existential crises keeping me up at night.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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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. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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Research on early college high schools indicates they may pay for themselves in the long run

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Leave this field empty if you're human: The history of early college high schools dates back to the 1960s with the founding of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a private school. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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OPINION: Don’t despair — personalized learning offers promise of better learning for all students

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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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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

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.