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MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. Tutoring became a leading solution for academic recovery and schools contracted with outside companies to provide tutors.

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JUNE 7, 2021

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. Parents and teachers may like smaller classes but the research evidence for spending money on them isn’t strong. Class size reduction is costly,” the Danish researchers wrote.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. New research suggests that these schools might actually pay for themselves in long-term benefits to both students and the public as a whole. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Many claim that scientific research proves their wares work. “Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. The federal government, through the U.S. Can they be believed?

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MARCH 18, 2024

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. Victor had made lots of progress in math since he began meeting twice a week with Carr at a Nashville-area Boys & Girls Club through an ad hoc, statewide tutoring initiative.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers. An earlier version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.). Lavy modeled it after an on-the-job teacher training program.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In When I have written about unrelated educational reforms, researchers often compare them to the effectiveness of class size reductions to give me a sense of their relative impact. In math, it found no benefits at all.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

One of the research teams, which includes Harvard University economist Tom Kane and Stanford University sociologist Sean Reardon, likened the gains to six days of learning in math and three days of learning in reading for every $1,000 in federal pandemic aid per student. And the spending was worth the gains,” Lake added. children.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, one of the assessment companies. These test score analyses don’t offer explanations, but researchers shared a range of theories. One report documented that U.S.

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JUNE 2, 2023

For edtech firms, this partly means figuring out how to prevent their bottom line from being hurt, as students swap some edtech services with AI-powered DIY alternatives , like tutoring replacements. At the moment, more research is needed. The most dramatic example came in May, when Chegg’s falling stock price was blamed on chatbots.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Indiana is offering families grants of up $1,000 to support after-school tutoring. Idaho started a $50 million program so that eligible families can buy education-related items, from online instructional materials to tutoring services. Previously, he has worked in public policy and government affairs for both Tesla and Uber.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A recent study by USC researchers found a lack of concern about the issue among parents. And while I know that teachers are trying to be supportive, lowering expectations is harmful; recent research shows that students learn more from teachers who have higher grading standards.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

No school governance model is predominant. Related: PROOF POINTS: Four lessons from post-pandemic tutoring research One fear we have is that too many education stakeholders have given up on school improvement because they don’t believe it’s possible. All these findings are consistent with a wide body of literature on what works.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. The odds against these kids are daunting,’’ says Richard Kahlenberg , a senior fellow at The Century Foundation , a nonpartisan public research institute. Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school.

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APRIL 20, 2023

For example, teachers serving schools with high levels of student poverty were far more likely to report that their students lacked appropriate remote-learning workspaces free of distractions during the pandemic, according to research from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. And research from the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Bleak Staffing Numbers To make accelerated learning possible, schools needed enough staff to provide small-group student tutoring. To execute its vision of providing high-dosage tutoring , one district hired full-time tutors to work during school hours. People are covering all the time. “So Will hiring teachers get easier?

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APRIL 7, 2023

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. Research says if students are behind in reading by the end of third grade, they are unlikely to ever catch up with their peers.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds. Schools hired additional counselors, interventionists (a fancy name for tutors), and aides, and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. The third act was a pandemic-fueled “hiring bonanza.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

The report entitled “ The Youths Relationships Study ” was conducted by researchers at University of Illinois Chicago and published last fall. Researchers reported that Big Brothers Big Sisters mentees in the study were 54 percent less likely to have been arrested and 41 percent less likely to have engaged in substance use.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

In this third post, we explore how Powerful Learning is collaborative and connected, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Students are highly attuned to social dynamics, and research shows that relationships can drive learning. – Feb.,

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The proportion of high-achieving students from families making more than $250,000 a year applying through early decision is nearly twice that of high-achieving students from families that make less than $50,000, research commissioned by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation shows. This year we’re looking at 30.”.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In a separate pandemic study of second and third graders in 100 school districts, Stanford University researchers found that although teachers had figured out how to teach reading remotely during the 2020-21 school year, students didn’t catch up. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

A retired math teacher who lived a half mile up the road from my family, he opened his home to me every Wednesday afternoon for tutoring. State and federal governments, educators, parents, entrepreneurs and billionaires are all seeking solutions to this problem. Louis/Mathematica Policy Research Center.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

During the pandemic, school systems dramatically expanded the number of software products they used as companies offered free subscriptions for a limited time and the federal government showered districts with emergency funding, he said. Related: PROOF POINTS: How can tutors reach more kids?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

A student at work with her tutor. And I knew before I retired from government service that I wanted to devote the next chapter of my life to this issue. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. When there aren’t enough teachers trained to teach students with disabilities, we fail the vulnerable students who most need educators’ help.

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

Peter, a math whiz, tutored her in pre-algebra; Mallory and Elise helped with her writing assignments. Government programs have also freed up some financial support. The Seita program continues to try to close the gaps between campus and government resources. There’s a lot of support,” she said.

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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. Anytime we have parent-teacher conferences, it’s the Cub Connection teacher's responsibility to communicate that information to the parent.

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MAY 17, 2019

Researchers, including those who work for the test companies, have known wealth is strongly correlated with outcomes on standardized tests for years. Richer families can afford more tutoring, test prep and enrichment activities. Each year, the government would make contributions based on the child’s family size and income.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Two of the most powerful tailwinds right now are the committed teachers who show up for their students every day and the over $160 billion the federal government is investing in our schools. When I reflect on when I was tutoring under-resourced kids in the 1990s, I can see how much progress we have made in just a few decades.

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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.” James Wiley, a vice president at the education market research firm ListEdTech.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report As a math teacher at Brookline High in the early 2000s, Calculus Project founder Adrian Mims got firsthand experience in what the research was beginning to establish. When the school year arrived, they participated in after-school tutoring at Brookline High.

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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. Photo Isaac Carey/The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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JUNE 11, 2017

Tutors danced. That’s the next big challenge after years of being pushed, prodded and prepped for higher education at Match High, where students are selected by lottery and get individual tutors for help with a tough college-prep curriculum. dean of students Robert Hendricks exclaimed. Teachers clapped.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When devising a definition of “reading disability” based on the population of nine- to 11-year-olds on the island, the researchers distinguished between poor readers who read at levels predicted by their IQs and those who did not, looking for evidence of dyslexia only in those in the latter group. The studies came just as the U.S.

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