The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While district policies can provide opportunities for improving student achievement, our results suggest that this impact varies widely and requires strong school-level leadership and effort. No school governance model is predominant. It’s also clear that the laws governing school improvement must be revisited and strengthened.

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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. If you don’t show up to school, you’re not likely to catch up. A much smaller amount went to academic recovery, such as tutoring or summer school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A timeless routine, now broken by massive human failures: a raging pandemic, fires and floods fueled by climate change, and, in New York, a twice-delayed reopening debacle in the nation’s largest public-school system that is enraging parents, confusing educators and leading to increasing despair that school as we once knew it will never return.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2020

If New York City public schools open this fall, my second-grader and fifth-grader will be going to school for just one third of the usual time. It is a confusing schedule that means they will spend only one or two days a week in school. Others have been taking public transportation to work for months.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Last fall, nearly 80 percent of third grade students in Metro Nashville Public Schools performed below the passing benchmark. Students can also take the test again before the next school year to try and achieve a passing grade. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

When the school year arrived, they participated in after-school tutoring at Brookline High. Summer participants were placed into cohorts so they could advance through math classes in high school with peers they knew. He says he has not heard from the federal government or the group about the complaint since early 2023.

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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.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sometimes a single class, such as 11th grade “algebra II” or 12th grade English, can earn a student credit toward both high school and college. Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Housing is everything,” said Melissa Douglas, the liaison for homeless students in the Kansas City Public Schools district. It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.” Evictions are rampant and often mark the start of a slide into prolonged homelessness.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Every child also needs to know that there are caring adults inside their school who have their best interests at heart and who can and will support their parents and guardians in helping them reach their full potential. DoDEA schools have skilled counselors to meet the needs of our population. Related: Schools on U.S.

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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

MAY 18, 2021

The large number of students returning to in-person classes — at West Middle about 76 percent of students are back — is a testament to families’ reliance on the city’s schools, and their trust in the public school system. (In A tutor hired by his mother, Mercedes Powell, helped fill in any gaps.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Goyco school in San Juan. Goyco is one of the more than 600 public schools in Puerto Rico that have closed in the past decade. The activists here are part of a growing group of residents mobilizing to turn the empty schools littered across the island into community centers. Photo: Ankur Singh for The Hechinger Report.

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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 dabbawalas have been profiled by the New York Times and NBC News , among many others, and there is even a Harvard Business School case study about them. .

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Many had seen their schooling interrupted by the chaos back home; some had experienced gang violence or human trafficking. The Louisiana High School Athletic Association requires all student-athletes to present some proof of age — a birth certificate or official immigration papers — along with a social security number.

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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. million public school students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

million public school children enrolled in special education in the United States, 13 percent of all public school students. Instead, her high school placed her in remedial courses for math and English, where she just fell further behind. Her parents hired a tutor to help her. There are 6.6

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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

JUNE 26, 2018

Several parents with children in low-performing schools view a child’s academic struggles as an individual responsibility — their child’s fault, or their own — but access to and understanding of school data can help them identify broader problems. She is hoping to see a change from state and local governments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. For extra pay, Jennie teaches an additional chemistry class and has tutored at a local enrichment center; Mitch has chopped logs and sold firewood. Maybe teaching.”.

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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. They say their concerns have fallen on the deaf ears of the state, which removed the city’s school board more than a year ago. More than 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

“We want to stop that disconnection, catch them before they become opportunity youth,” said Jerome Jupiter, the former schoolteacher who heads up YEP’s educational arm, which combines tutoring with case management. Differing governance between K-12 and adult education systems also make it difficult to replicate models across state lines.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

Founded in 1884 to serve former slaves, the college is in Little Rock’s Central High historic district, named for the nearby public school that was forcibly integrated by federal troops and made famous by the iconic photo of jeering whites hurling vitriol at black children.

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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. Columbus School, Carteret, N.J

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She tutored other kids from public housing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

A third of high school students quit before they finish , more than double the current proportion in the rest of the United States , the U.S. A counselor advises a high school student at Kinesis headquarters in San Juan. Department of Education says. said Tufts’ Jiménez.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Chad Gestson, superintendent of the Phoenix Union High School District, walking with Cheri Hardwick, principal at the Academies at South Mountain. Credit: Phoenix Union High School District. last spring, public schools across the country were forced to grapple with how best to educate their students while still protecting lives.

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2024

But since September, she’s spent a couple of hours per day as a tutor through the California Volunteers College Corps, a state-funded partnership program that places college students into paid internships. She earns $700 per month, provided she tutors elementary students for at least 20 hours per two weeks.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

My own understanding of school choice has been heavily informed by Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. There’s magnet schools, which are giving seats to kids outside of a zoned neighborhood school.

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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. Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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. The retired public school teacher stands out in a burnt orange sweater, her curly hair adorned with a soft brown beret. Its not their fault, she says, or their parents or even the schools fault.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Katie Humphrey, the seventh grade counselor at Columbia Middle School, tries to normalize the idea of asking for mental health support to both children and parents. “I 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.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Officials with the local district, Shelby County Public Schools, did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails requesting comment. According to district presentations, Shelby County schools last year offered tutoring to the lowest performing students. It was all tomfoolery,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2024

Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and effective way to jumpstart lagging student performance post-pandemic. Educators strongly endorse tutoring, when done right, and believe it can help students make real academic gains. This could be a win-win.

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