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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 The low success rate for new ideas is “psychologically disappointing,” said Barbara Goodson, lead author of the report and an expert in educational research at the consulting firm Abt Global. The tutoring seemed to harm them.

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PROOF POINTS: Why are kids still struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. 15, 2024, documented widespread psychological distress among teenage girls and preteen boys since the pandemic. Chronic absenteeism is another big factor.

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PROOF POINTS: How Covid narrowed the STEM pipeline

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Yet another explanation is a psychological one. Many of them are from wealthier families who can afford tutors, or attend well-resourced schools.

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When kids pick their ‘trusted adult,’ it pays off

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

I tell our students, it’s like tutoring,” she says. “If If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.” Federal and state governments have allocated extra money for mental health services and school districts across the country are scrambling to beef up supports.

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Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Connected learning can happen on a local scale by fostering connections with businesses, places of worship, government agencies, and museums where students can reach an authentic audience. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345–375. Kulik Educational Outcomes of Tutoring: A Meta-analysis of Findings. Educational Researcher, Vol.

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Mississippi’s homeless students struggle, with little help from schools

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2017

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. Last year, Marks said, homeless students who had received tutoring scored up to 2.6 The extra assistance set her on a much less rocky path.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

“No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. I’m taking a government course so I can graduate, and it’s not offered. Credit: Chloe Pressley.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

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Special education’s hidden racial gap

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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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It doesn’t follow from that that more choice is always better,” said Barry Schwartz, professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College and the author of “The Paradox of Choice,” about the psychological ramifications of a supermarket culture that offers 175 kinds of salad dressings and 275 breakfast cereals.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. Department of Education says. A counselor advises a high school student at Kinesis headquarters in San Juan.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She tutored other kids from public housing. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. while she puzzled over psychology homework in the one hour she had to spare. Most still read at an elementary school level.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

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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3 takeaways from the Moms for Liberty summit

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session Hechinger Report editor Caroline Preston launched her climate change newsletter (which you can sign up for here ) with a look at how some colleges are embedding climate-related instruction into diverse fields.

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

PROOF POINTS: Why are kids still struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

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PROOF POINTS: How Covid narrowed the STEM pipeline

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Mississippi’s homeless students struggle, with little help from schools

Students have their own demands for school reopening

How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

Special education’s hidden racial gap

Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

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