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MARCH 18, 2024

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 One example is Reading Recovery, a tutoring program for struggling readers in first grade that costs $10,000 per student and was a recipient of one of these grants. The tutoring seemed to harm them. The failure rate was 74 percent.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The “breakout” tutoring company of 2023 will differentiate itself by measuring and consistently reproducing meaningful student outcomes. Prediction: The “breakout” tutoring company of 2023 will differentiate itself by measuring and consistently reproducing meaningful student outcomes.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

One such example is a remedial high school program in Israel, now defunct, that gave thousands of disadvantaged and lower achieving 16- and 17-year-olds after-school instruction in small groups, similar to tutoring. The Israeli government selected 130 lower income schools and reached more than 4,000 students.

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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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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. The most dramatic example came in May, when Chegg’s falling stock price was blamed on chatbots.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

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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JULY 1, 2024

These surprising differences for places with similar poverty levels occurred because pandemic aid was allocated according to the same byzantine rules that govern federal Title I funding to low-income schools. Wealthier families also had the means to hire tutors or time to help their children at home.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Much of the focus on pandemic recovery in schools throughout the United States has been on recruiting tutors to help students make up for lost learning time, and there is some evidence that such tutoring can work under certain circumstances. There is also a role for the federal government to play beyond ARP fund distribution.

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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. It’s easy to jump to the conclusion that the $190 billion that the federal government gave to schools for pandemic recovery didn’t work. Chronic absenteeism is another big factor.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2020

Along with a lot of other parents, many of us have been approached about creating small groups of kids led by a babysitter or tutor, also known as “podding.” We need city government, elected officials and businesses to start thinking about how to empower parent communities to provide off-day care for every family.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Additional strategies adopted by Illinois and Louisiana include tutoring and interventions for struggling learners and professional development for educators. Lesley Muldoon is the executive director of the National Assessment Governing Board , which oversees the Nation’s Report Card.

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MARCH 1, 2021

Because the government wanted to focus on what works, Sahni only analyzed studies with positive results for students. The reading program ITSS stands for Intelligent Tutoring using the Structure Strategy and is used by about 150,000 students, mostly in grades three through five. We haven’t done the study yet to understand.

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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. Students can also take the test again before the next school year to try and achieve a passing grade. Because I email, I call.

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MAY 16, 2023

Many found a way to continue their studies through informal tutoring centers, but those too have come under increased scrutiny as the government continues to crack down on women and girls’ access to education. I walked into the class, eager and excited for the year to come. Little did I know that class would change my life.

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

These strategies have taken root in efforts by district leaders, often in partnership with university-based teacher education programs, to “grow-their-own” teachers or source tutors for more emergent interventions. One possible answer is investing in more inclusive partnerships.

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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. Will hiring teachers get easier?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In addition, a growing array of “educator” roles — via community centers, after-school programs, camps and employer programs — can connect young people with counselors, coaches, mentors and tutors. Jill Norton, founder of Clark Street Consulting, supports nonprofits, foundations and government agencies to advance educational equity.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

Government Accountability Office. Government Accountability Office found that, for example, teachers found some success mitigating learning declines among English language learners using one-on-one check-ins with students and assigning small-group work in person. And research from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

The script suddenly flipped during the 2021-22 school year as the federal government sent pandemic recovery funds to schools. The biggest areas of staff expansion were among substitute teachers, paraprofessionals or teachers’ aides, and tutors. Students sat in classrooms without teachers.

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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. Reynolds, who serves on the governing board that oversees the NAEP exam, has been trying to lobby more private schools to participate, but so far, to no avail.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2022

Responding to some of EdSurge’s coverage in the Biz newsletter, Atin Batra, founder and general partner at 27 Ventures, an early investor in companies like the livestream tutoring platform Fiveable , wanted to offer an alternative perspective. The news might lead you to think edtech’s future is marked by doom and gloom. Just in the U.S.,

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JUNE 7, 2021

This wouldn’t be the first time that the federal government has spent gobs of money on smaller classes. Tutoring is a good research-proven place to start. One experiment can never stand alone for conclusions to be drawn,” said Filges, by email. Spoiler alert: achievement didn’t soar.) Follow the evidence.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2017

Jimerson and a staff of tutors arranged for her to take the classes she would need to graduate, and made sure she received a free lunch, school supplies and other basic necessities. Last year, Marks said, homeless students who had received tutoring scored up to 2.6 The extra assistance set her on a much less rocky path.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Wealthier families have also been able to pay for tutoring, private college counselors and test prep; although submitting tests is optional at more than 1,650 colleges and universities this year, families are convinced a good score can still help in admission. This year we’re looking at 30.”.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In West Virginia, community colleges have hired Temporary Assistance for Needy Families coordinators whose job it is to help students who are single women raising children learn how to navigate government resources and balance all their responsibilities with their studies.

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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.

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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. Our advisory teacher is supposed to be the one person who is making sure that you're getting the correct tutoring for all the subjects,” Ibarra says.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

Connected learning can happen on a local scale by fostering connections with businesses, places of worship, government agencies, and museums where students can reach an authentic audience. Kulik Educational Outcomes of Tutoring: A Meta-analysis of Findings. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning. Educational Researcher, Vol.

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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. In a separate December 2019 financial analysis , AIR calculated that it costs almost an extra $1,000 year per student or $3,800 over four years for each student’s high school degree.

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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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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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