ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Our advisory teacher is supposed to be the one person who is making sure that you're getting the correct tutoring for all the subjects,” Ibarra says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

Everyone is in the same wait-and-see place,” Phyllis Fagell, a school counselor in Washington D.C. and author of the book Middle School Matters , told me Sunday from the parking lot of her school where she was getting tested for Covid in advance of in-person returning this week.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Students can also take the test again before the next school year to try and achieve a passing grade. Another provision allows students to move up a grade, as long as the school gives them tutoring for a full school year. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

At the Williston-Elko Middle School in rural South Carolina, where she has taught for seven years, more than three out of every four students are poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-priced lunch. After the 2008 recession, schools across the country cut spending by $600 per student, on average, and laid off thousands of teachers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

They were also less likely to have been disciplined in school for misbehavior (like hitting or bullying). 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

JULY 1, 2017

She was introduced to Clemon Jimerson, a specialist hired by the Harrison County School District to help homeless students. Jimerson and a staff of tutors arranged for her to take the classes she would need to graduate, and made sure she received a free lunch, school supplies and other basic necessities.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. “The Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Guadalupe Hernandez, 13, argues being suspended for missing class did little to motivate him to regularly attend school. He says his attendance and grades improved after he received counseling, tutoring and medication to control his multiple behavior disorders. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. But even with online learning plans, school districts around the country could face an “unprecedented historic academic regression” unless they do more, he said.

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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 17, 2021

LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM RESERVATION — Fourteen-year-old Roger Tinoco-Wheeler jumped at the chance to be back with friends twice a week at his Port Angeles middle school in January. A tutor there helped raise his math grade from an F to a B in just a few weeks, and shares his love of anime. Learning from Lockdown.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

When it was time for Kelly Ragas to choose a middle school for her son three years ago, John Q. Adams was certainly the most convenient option: She worked as its school secretary and already had a child there. Kelly Ragas, school secretary and parent, John Q. Adams Middle School. Adams Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

She currently works a clerical job for a government agency and drives cabs intermittently, while trying to launch a holistic wellness business. Although her family has moved many times, Johnson has up until now managed to maintain some stability in school for Mikaela. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Much of that spending supports private tutoring. The average South Korean family spends 20 percent of its income on after-hours “cram schools,” or hagwons, with spending starting early. More than 35 percent of 2-year-olds, 80 percent of 5-year-olds and 95 percent of middle schoolers attend hagwons. in engineering degrees?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

She became homeless when Moises was in middle school, after relatives lost patience with hosting her and her children. Moises began skipping school. Related: Just as it wants students to speed up, government won’t pay for summer courses. He made College Summit the school’s coolest club. Lina’s youngest was anxious.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Parent and special education advocate Sri Hatharasinghe-Gerschler recalls teachers telling her she’d never go to college when she was in middle school in the mid-1990s. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Her parents hired a tutor to help her.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town. 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

JUNE 6, 2016

In Rachael McIlvaine’s eighth-grade science class at West Middle School here, a chatty but focused group of three takes turns closing their eyes, dipping a plastic spoon into a foil roasting pan and fishing for M&M’s, trying to capture as much candy as they can. Attendance improved among middle and high school students. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I’m fully vaxxed and still caught Delta… Our governor at the start of the year said no state orders, so it comes down to me and basically our school nurses when it comes to quarantining and sending people home. Government is kind of leading from the rear here. Karis Mazyck , principal of Blythewood Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

NEW YORK — Pink and purple posters adorn the third-floor hallway at University Neighborhood Middle School on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They’re advertising the after-school and summer programs the school runs with Henry Street Settlement , a community organization. Credit: Andre Joyles/New York Edge.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

The district will be holding an expanded summer school this year and is investing in mental health counselors and early literacy. . Katina Harris , middle school English teacher and president of the local teachers’ union. We have classroom tutors now. Orion Salazar, graduating eighth grader, Taos Middle School.

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Oral History History High School Public School 115

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. In Mexico, what started as an experiment to improve 8 poor, rural public schools has now exploded into a national network of over 9,000 low-achieving elementary and middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school. But it was the recession, and Jennie was soon laid off. They’ve been in Arizona since.

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K-12 Public School History Tutoring 96

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

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It was founded on the belief that these learners need more focused attention than they often receive in traditional public schools, and that they need to go back to basics to learn English. The school also places an emphasis on helping students overcome trauma they may have faced on their journey to the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

My coping mechanism to respond to some of the uncertainty in the larger system is appealing to government or quasi government agencies as well as personal physicians that can help me just know that I’m doing the right thing. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. We had a tutor.

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Oral History History High School Public School 114

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2025

When students and teachers did return to school buildings, they often did so masked or only part time, with protocols about distancing, and fears swirling for their health. And then they stayed on the computer her first year of middle school, in sixth grade. Today, more than five years after Covid arrived on U.S.

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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 only solution to save the Highland Park School District was to take control of the system entirely, state officials concluded.

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Charter School Public School Government High School 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2017

The 21st Century Learning Centers offer after-school programs to a range of grade levels in Greenville, Mississippi. At the Boys and Girls Club, one of the district’s five sites, children receive homework help and tutoring, recreation time and a hot dinner. The program would be eliminated under President Donald Trump’s budget proposal.

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Tutoring Elementary School Public School Middle School 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A student group committed to free markets and limited government gave students at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., Humayun draws inspiration from her parents, who belong to the Ahmadiyya Islamic reform group and are subject to discrimination in Pakistan, and from the refugees she tutors in English. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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