ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

Witchet is now a pre-kindergarten teacher and recently wrapped up his master’s degree in education leadership. 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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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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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2016

All of this is quite complex but the entire 125-year-old system is organized organically by the dabbawalas themselves, not the government or a corporation. The students and tutors share an understanding that, if there are things that they need to know in order to teach others, they will learn them through the teaching of others.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. It also added parent and student liaisons who would have a voice in the leadership of the project. And a lot of times [my child] has tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

Some 90 percent of students live in households that qualify for government assistance. While bringing in a new principal may seem like an easy and obvious solution, research shows that the disruptions caused by changes in leadership can actually reduce student performance, at least in the short term.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She tutored other kids from public housing. Pierre, the student who left LSU for the Air Force, had a good job working in the executive branch of the federal government. Williams was “extraordinary,” Marcovitz said, deeply curious and capable of the kind of complex thinking not common in most high school freshmen.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Callan is a cadet herself, just beginning her final year at the age of 25 and here today to earn a leadership credit. But other states and institutions, and the federal government, offer little such encouragement for older students, also known as “reentry adults.”. She’s not a member of the faculty, however. She’s not an officer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

But since 2009, according to David Smith, the district’s chief of communications and government relations, the district has had to cut more than $50 million from its already tight budget because of state cutbacks, threatening progress in a district that had seen some significant and surprising gains for its students.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

The challenging work of leadership will not get easier in this next chapter of American education, just different. Increase students’ access to tutoring, after school activities and interventions to help address lost instructional time. Yet here we are. States and local communities must lead the way.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Originally, the federal government had promised to distribute 40 acres and a mule to black families after the Civil War. The Georgetown example, its past sale of people to pay off loans, makes it clear that the federal government isn’t solely responsible for the historical exclusion of black folk from critical services.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

She was particularly struck by responses from undocumented students whose families weren’t eligible for any government assistance, and from students who reported that their parents were frontline workers. I’m taking a government course so I can graduate, and it’s not offered.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

At those 20 institutions with 100 or more GI Bill recipients eligible to finish in 2014, the government data disclose, even the ones with the highest veteran success rates managed to graduate only one in five. There are several reasons why things are working for them. Photo credit: Peggy Peattie Photo: Peggy Peattie. Photo: Peggy Peattie.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Now, many worry that the district won’t rebound — and will head back into the cycle of rotating leadership, low performance and lack of public trust that existed before the turnaround. He has proven leadership,” she said. Student outcomes improved. The graduation rate rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020.

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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. Under Roark’s leadership, Leslie County High School has made a remarkable turnaround.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We have classroom tutors now. The Philadelphia school district is among many nationwide facing a leadership change. 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. Watlington Sr.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Much of the focus on pandemic recovery in schools throughout the United States has been on recruiting tutors to help students make up for lost learning time, and there is some evidence that such tutoring can work under certain circumstances. There is also a role for the federal government to play beyond ARP fund distribution.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

At Match, the finish line won’t come till the end of May, when seniors reveal their college choices at a dramatic “signing day” ceremony before family members, counselors, tutors and nearly all the adults in their spacious and sunny school building. In its best form, the tutoring is tailored to what the student needs to be successful.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

Over the past decades the federal government has developed many programs to serve social needs that are fundamental to educational success. Experience and data make clear that their success aligns with the quality of preparation and consistency of support they received in the 13 prior years. That matters.

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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. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The lack of a promised federal aid package, combined with teacher shortages, is making it difficult for cash-strapped systems that rely for funding on bereft state and local governments to help students catch up, either in person or virtually. They can’t pay a tutor or take over their children’s learning.

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Public School Leadership Charter School Tutoring 143

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

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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