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This math tutoring program gets ‘blockbuster’ results in high-poverty schools

The Hechinger Report

The world’s wealthiest families have known for centuries how effective tutoring is. Private tutors long educated the aristocracy and continue to supplement the education of kids whose families can afford it. Now, a national nonprofit has found a way to get tutoring to kids from poorer families, too. Census Bureau data.

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A Year After the Online Tutoring Industry Was Roiled, Teachers Are Still Searching for Stability

ED Surge

Log on to the website for the online tutoring company VIPKid , and a pop-up will appear asking visitors to select which part of the world they’re in. Screenshot from VIPKid homepage) Some of the tutoring companies shut down, with immediate effect. and Canada. and Canada. I keep my time slots open—5 to 10:30 a.m.

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How early ed is affected by federal cuts

The Hechinger Report

Last month, my colleague Jill Barshay detailed potentially devastating cuts made to education research when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 89 contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences, a research arm of the Department of Education. One is evaluations of how the government spends its money.

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

The Hechinger Report

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 WWC refers to the What Works Clearinghouse, a library of evidence-based teaching practices. The tutoring seemed to harm them. The tutoring sessions likely exposed children to these words so many times that the students memorized them.

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The simple intervention that could lift kids out of ‘Covid slide’

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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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Education Needs a Reset. We Can Start by Listening to Our Teachers.

ED Surge

Here in my home state of Florida , we are arguing about how to teach history and whether we can acknowledge the gender identities of students. One high-profile and recent example comes from Teach for America, one of the nation’s largest preparers of teachers of color, which has recruited its smallest cohort in at least 15 years.

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As final year of college planning unfolds at Match: ‘What’s it gonna take?’

The Hechinger Report

You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. But Match is also trying some ideas that stand out from the now-familiar charter model, including a personalized, “high-dosage” tutoring model that it developed, which is geared to identifying the individual weaknesses of each student, as well as their strengths. Photo: Liz Willen.

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