The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Does a sixth-grade teacher have the same skills and tools to teach reading that a second or third grade teacher does? 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. I doubt that’s the case.” How am I going to factor?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

We don’t have flying frogs and leaping lizards but we do try to teach kids how to understand what they read,” said Kausalai (Kay) Wijekumar, a professor at Texas A&M University who developed the reading comprehension program ITSS that made the list of three. It’s systematic direct instruction, using evidence-based practices.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun, recent high school graduate Benjamin Handelman notes that what is more helpful is for teachers to show enthusiasm for the subjects they teach and offer rigorous and engaging learning opportunities. Even students don’t like the go-easy-on-them approach.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It’s troubling then, to be faced with signs of a teaching profession in decline — with alarming teacher shortages , fewer college students choosing to become teachers and many current teachers not recommending that others enter the profession. And current shortages are finally beginning to spur an embrace of broader conceptions of teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

The teaching profession, according to CNN in early 2022, was “in crisis.” But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated. 4, 2022 and found that each school, on average, had about three unfilled teaching openings in June 2022. Teaching students with disabilities is a hard job.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

The AI applications range from tutors supporting foundational knowledge gaps to social connection facilitators designed for online learners who might otherwise feel isolated. Professional Development: Faculty and administrators must understand why interoperability matters and how it benefits learners.

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The Hechinger Report

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. But many vacancies are in high poverty schools where fewer teachers want to teach.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Lower teaching quality offset gains that might have been achieved from the smaller classes. Changing how teachers teach can sometimes be more powerful than how many students are in the classroom. This wouldn’t be the first time that the federal government has spent gobs of money on smaller classes. Follow the evidence.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

According to district presentations, Shelby County schools last year offered tutoring to the lowest performing students. Most students who received tutoring focused on English language arts, but not math. At his church in Memphis, Lampkin started his own tutoring program three nights a week.

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Digital Promise

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 learn even more when they learn 3 from and teach each other 4. Powerful learning must be collaborative and connected.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But having that training, I’m so much more encouraged that I can improve my teaching.” 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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Come Down The pandemic’s forced switch to remote instruction unlocked federal funding for K-12 schools, as the government made a temporary $190 billion jab available in the hopes that it would inoculate against the effects of COVID-19 on teaching and learning. Still, the district won’t be unaffected, Langford says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Only one piece of software that taught reading, Intelligent Tutoring for the Structure Strategy ( ITSS ), showed promise, suggesting that it is possible to create good educational software outside of math, but it’s a lot harder. The federal government, through the U.S. The J-PAL researchers found nine rigorous studies of it.

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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. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

A student at work with her tutor. When there aren’t enough teachers trained to teach students with disabilities, we fail the vulnerable students who most need educators’ help. We must help teachers get the training they need to be able to teach all of their students, including students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

I was recently teaching my eighth grade science class a lesson on volcanoes, and we got to talking about Mount Vesuvius when one of my students shot her hand up in the air and said, “Mr. I teach at Zama American Middle-High School , a Department of Defense school in Kanagawa, Japan. Pope, I used to live near there.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

” Teaching aide Hannah Chancey faces the same problem in second grade classrooms at Rehobeth Elementary School in a small low-income community in southeastern Alabama, a state with reading scores near the bottom nationally. We’re teaching kids to read in a content and motivational vacuum.” Racial and ethnic gaps worsened too.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Aaron Thompson Yet just because people can access technology doesn’t mean they know how to use it effectively for teaching and learning. We helped faculty to get up to an engagement process, not just delivering the academics. The goal is to prevent these students from stopping out, according to Tucker.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Part of the extra cost is to cover the tutoring, coaching and counseling that are needed to help low-income high school students catch up and accelerate. For example, early college high schools often teach students how to work in college-style study groups and give them explicit instruction in note taking and study skills.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

I graduated with honors from college, I’m teaching now, and it’s because of the actions that Bradley took,” Witchet says. 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

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Slavin suggests that it might be more effective to operate larger classes, supplemented by one-to-one tutoring for kids who need it. overemphasizes small classes at the expense of good teaching. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Related: Putting an ed tech darling in context.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

But when it comes to learning, he’s grown to love an environment much closer to home: surrounded by extended family members in a small, salmon-colored building just down the road from his house, where tutors and adults in his tribe have taught him since last fall. Learning from Lockdown. It’s forever changing and evolving.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Senior James Lopes, wearing a green sweatshirt, listens to William Frey teach a lesson on polynomials, rational trigonometrics, exponential and logarithmic functions at the Calculus Project’s summer leadership academy program at Boston University. When the school year arrived, they participated in after-school tutoring at Brookline High.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But it looked like the teenagers would have to do without the advantages sports participation could bring: The nonprofit that governs Louisiana’s high school sports won’t allow most of the Central American students to play. To join the team, a student had to stay for tutoring and couldn’t land in detention more than a handful of times. “It

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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. This nine-part series explores how we’re teaching through climate change. “We are building all of that now to make sure we’re better prepared,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Her parents hired a tutor to help her. It would require roughly $18 billion in additional funding for the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

My CUNY Start teachers were incredibly supportive, even providing math tutoring before and after class. They helped me get ready for college — not only improving my math skills, but also teaching me how to seek out resources for help. After completing CUNY Start, I was ready for college-level classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

With better understanding, they can take action — invest in a tutor if the problem is isolated, for example, or demand that their district spend more on reading programs if the issue is widespread. She is hoping to see a change from state and local governments. Everything is online now,” Bey 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. She has lots of ideas: tutoring services, a library, a theater, a kitchen, case managers, social workers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

She was particularly struck by responses from undocumented students whose families weren’t eligible for any government assistance, and from students who reported that their parents were frontline workers. I’m taking a government course so I can graduate, and it’s not offered.

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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. Assistance can take many forms, such as laundry services, tutoring and the waiving of ACT costs and graduation fees. Related: Should schools teach anyone who can get online — or no one at all?

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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. Related: $1.5 billion in recovery funds go to afterschool.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Related: Just as it wants students to speed up, government won’t pay for summer courses. That’s the type of person that professors want to teach,” said Michael Altamirano, a business professor who taught Lina in a marketing class. She qualifies for grants and tutoring from Metropolitan’s Welfare to Careers Project.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

This can include investments in tutoring, summer programs and other interventions that help students catch up and regain their footing. Schools are required to use at least 20 percent of their funds to address learning loss and ensure that students have access to high-quality educational opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

While the tutoring and on-the-run support that have replaced it may smooth their paths, at least one university president wonders whether future engineers will sufficiently master the calculus they need. Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. Weekly Update.

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