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.” The stakes here are going to be pretty high if you get it wrong,” he says.

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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

MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

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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. She has lots of ideas: tutoring services, a library, a theater, a kitchen, case managers, social workers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. 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. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

A committee gathers every Thursday morning in a conference room in the library to review these cases. “To Not only do advisers, tutors, career counselors and coaches reach out; even the student government is alerted, said Liz Rainey, executive director of student success.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. And a lot of times [my child] has tutoring. OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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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. Zaire Wallace, a senior at The Charter School of San Diego.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. D to her pupils, sits at a table with one of the young students she tutors as they clap and sing as part of their lesson. Perez started tutoring students around the time the COVID-19 vaccine made it safe to meet in-person. BROWNSVILLE, Texas Its nearly 5 p.m.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

There’s also this rise of ESAs (education savings accounts) where you could pay for online classes or tutoring or tuition. Because I’ve always understood school choice as “this is government money that will follow the student to whatever they go to.” It’s very flexible. And that is one of the natural consequences of competition.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

This disparity in home computer and internet access, dubbed the “homework gap,” was a slow-burning problem for most districts in the days when schools were in session and students could get online at libraries, after-school programs, coffee shops and other community gathering spots. Public Schools offer on-demand online tutoring sessions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Government had created pressure for accountability. But he said the reality is more students than ever are graduating in the toughest majors, thanks to better support, like tutoring. The ID records included when students entered classroom buildings, returned to the dorm at night, checked out library books or bought a coffee.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help. The county has one small town with a public library, a pharmacy, a small grocery store and a few diners and fast-food joints along the outskirts. Clifford Hamilton, a lifelong resident of Leslie County and director of the county’s library.

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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. I’m very worried about their learning,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2024

The plan also equates transgender issues with child abuse and pornography, and proposes that school libraries with books deemed offensive be punished. Additionally, it says, lawmakers should allow parents in Title I schools to use part of that funding for educational savings accounts that could be spent on private tutoring or other services.

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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. She used it to buy books and computers for the library, white boards and printers for classrooms, to beef up a robotics program and build a multipurpose sports court for her students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Earlier this year, he signed a law barring libraries from banning books based on ideology; book bans nationwide have largely targeted LGTBQ+-themed books. 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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