The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Many states are also cutting back on K-12 assessments and graduation requirements, despite the fact that they are critical to holding education systems accountable. Additional strategies adopted by Illinois and Louisiana include tutoring and interventions for struggling learners and professional development for educators.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Reconstruction , a technology company focused on developing and teaching K-12 supplemental curriculum, assembles artists, mathematicians and entrepreneurs to provide supplemental curricula to empower Black students in their communities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

A retired math teacher who lived a half mile up the road from my family, he opened his home to me every Wednesday afternoon for tutoring. State and federal governments, educators, parents, entrepreneurs and billionaires are all seeking solutions to this problem. Louis/Mathematica Policy Research Center.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The state’s K-12 Math Personalized Learning Software grant program , created in 2013, requires ed tech companies to train teachers like Pitts on their products and obligates the businesses to credit the state if the licenses are never used. Related: PROOF POINTS: How can tutors reach more kids?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Heritage Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, wants lawmakers to take additional steps: changing the rules for 529 plans to allow families more school choice at the K-12 and help them pay for a bevy of other options. For one, 529 plans can be costly for federal and state governments, according to the Pew report.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

Designers tried to borrow tropes from video games, and in the demo, Ed enthusiastically says, “Alberto, you met your goal today,” and points to even more resources he could go to, including links to “Read a book,” “Get tutoring,” or “Find a library near me.” James Wiley, a vice president at the education market research firm ListEdTech.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Half a million people have left Puerto Rico in the last decade, first after the government cut services in a scramble to try and pay back its $123 billion in debt and then in response to the catastrophe of Hurricane Maria. Compared to 2010, nearly 250,000 fewer children attend K-12 public schools in Puerto Rico today, a decline of 45 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In a number of states, including Louisiana, adult education — which ranges from basic literacy to vocational training to high-school equivalency testing — is lumped with technical and community colleges, separate from the K-12 system. My grades were perfect. “We Teachers might tell me to go to school,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. For extra pay, Jennie teaches an additional chemistry class and has tutored at a local enrichment center; Mitch has chopped logs and sold firewood. Maybe teaching.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Working with one of the program’s tutors also boosted his skills in math, a subject he doesn’t enjoy very much. Among the biggest barriers to making after-school programming more robust and widespread are insufficient government funding, staffing shortages, and in some areas, a lack of transportation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation. Students spend the rest of their time at resource centers receiving in-person instruction or tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Only one piece of software that taught reading, Intelligent Tutoring for the Structure Strategy ( ITSS ), showed promise, suggesting that it is possible to create good educational software outside of math, but it’s a lot harder. The federal government, through the U.S. The J-PAL researchers found nine rigorous studies of it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Peter, a math whiz, tutored her in pre-algebra; Mallory and Elise helped with her writing assignments. Government programs have also freed up some financial support. The Seita program continues to try to close the gaps between campus and government resources. There’s a lot of support,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Part of the extra cost is to cover the tutoring, coaching and counseling that are needed to help low-income high school students catch up and accelerate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

A student at work with her tutor. And I knew before I retired from government service that I wanted to devote the next chapter of my life to this issue. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. When there aren’t enough teachers trained to teach students with disabilities, we fail the vulnerable students who most need educators’ help.

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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

MARCH 21, 2017

“The underlying fundamental problem is poverty, just like K-12 education,” he said. Related: Just as it wants students to speed up, government won’t pay for summer courses. He became student government president and started a mentoring club, taking several underclassmen under his wing.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. She picked working at a McDonald’s.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The researchers began by collecting 127 high-quality studies on class size reduction from 41 countries from kindergarten through grade 12. Slavin suggests that it might be more effective to operate larger classes, supplemented by one-to-one tutoring for kids who need it. Reasonable people can disagree.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But it looked like the teenagers would have to do without the advantages sports participation could bring: The nonprofit that governs Louisiana’s high school sports won’t allow most of the Central American students to play. To join the team, a student had to stay for tutoring and couldn’t land in detention more than a handful of times.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

With better understanding, they can take action — invest in a tutor if the problem is isolated, for example, or demand that their district spend more on reading programs if the issue is widespread. She is hoping to see a change from state and local governments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2019

The adjective “full” emphasizes that even in real dollars, after adjusting for inflation, more resources were pouring into prekindergarten through 12th grade classrooms across the country than before state and local governments started cutting spending in the 2009-10 school year. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

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. The government has never reached that target, forcing school districts to make up the difference — when they can afford it.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2017

While the program runs smoothly now because newcomers are tutored mostly by older students, Reitzig said there were bumpy times at the beginning, as school officials found themselves dealing with some student-employees who saw start times as flexible or didn’t grasp the need to work efficiently.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

Some 90 percent of students live in households that qualify for government assistance. We didn’t give them any extra tutoring,” he said. “We On top of that, many students struggle with the stresses of poverty. But the tests, scheduled for April, were cancelled because of the pandemic. Some Man Club members are now on the honor roll. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Much of that spending supports private tutoring. Accounts of high school students working at hagwons long into the night once prompted the government in Seoul to impose a 10 PM hagwon curfew. Parents also pay a high price for top test rankings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

In addition, aid from the government, merit aid from universities and private programs increasingly provide more benefit for wealthier students with high grade-point averages and top scores on entrance exams. Instead , almost half of the students from the lowest-income families go to community colleges.

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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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