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PROOF POINTS: New studies of online tutoring highlight troubles with attendance and larger tutoring groups

The Hechinger Report

Ever since the pandemic shut down schools in the spring of 2020, education researchers have pointed to tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. Researchers have previously found that it is important to schedule in-person tutoring sessions during the school day, when attendance is mandatory.

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PROOF POINTS: Uncertain evidence for online tutoring

The Hechinger Report

How well does online tutoring work? The federal government is pushing schools to spend a big chunk of their $122 billion in federal American Rescue Plan funds on tutoring , but bringing in armies of tutors into school buildings is a logistical nightmare. Online tutoring is a tempting solution.

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OPINION: Schools are still struggling post-pandemic, but surprising success stories give us hope

The Hechinger Report

Three recent reports from our organization, Education Reform Now , highlight transformative strategies that high-poverty schools across three states — Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado — are using to drive stronger student outcomes. No school governance model is predominant.

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As a district re-opens, one middle schooler returned to school and another remained home

The Hechinger Report

It was starting to feel like a normal seventh grade lunch at West Middle School. Isabella Rogers, 12, poses for a portrait at West Middle School on April 28 in Brockton, Massachusetts. This was the first week students were back at school in person, after a remote year due to COVID-19. BROCKTON, Mass. —

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Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

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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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

ED Surge

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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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

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.