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

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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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OPINION: Direct education grants can give families and children choices for getting extra help

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Which all begs the question: Should we expect the traditional education system to add responsibilities when we already know that it has not been able to keep up over the past few years? Indiana is offering families grants of up $1,000 to support after-school tutoring. K-12 educators have one of the highest rates of burnout in the U.S.

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OPINION: In an era of teacher shortages, we must embrace and develop new ways to unleash educator talent

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Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded. We cannot wait.

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

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It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. 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. A much smaller amount went to academic recovery, such as tutoring or summer school.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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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. There was nothing like this.

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

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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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OPINION: Schools are still struggling post-pandemic, but surprising success stories give us hope

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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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