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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

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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STUDENT VOICE: Young Afghan girls are finding ways to keep learning

The Hechinger Report

Many found a way to continue their studies through informal tutoring centers, but those too have come under increased scrutiny as the government continues to crack down on women and girls’ access to education. I walked into the class, eager and excited for the year to come. Little did I know that class would change my life.

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

ED Surge

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

The Hechinger Report

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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To serve kids in the pandemic, a tribe and a Washington school district create a unique learning space

The Hechinger Report

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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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.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

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.