The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

Tutoring 111

Tutoring Charter School High School K-12 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

The History of the Nationally Recommended Student-to-Counselor Ratio,” when I was writing another story on the growth in school counselors. Nicola’s research began in the fall of 2019 to fulfill a history class assignment and her paper is now under review for potential publication at an academic journal.

Research 140

Research High School Archiving Tutoring 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. If we can help these students reframe their relationship to the process of learning in high school, we have the opportunity to enhance their social mobility — and, quite possibly, ensure the survival of higher education.

Tradition 140

Tradition Tutoring High School Cultures 140

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

What we cherish often has nothing to do with the biology or Bronze Age history we learned in the classroom. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift For the lucky among us who have formed connections with a teacher, a school counselor or a coach, their value can seem immeasurable. That’s likely because the U.S.

Research 143

Research High School Economics Tutoring 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Retrieved from [link] The stats on school staffing might seem like a violation of the laws of supply and demand. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000.

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Economics Public School High School 140

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education. When the pandemic struck, districts around the country, especially those in low-income areas, were still recovering from economic losses sustained during the 2008 recession, when nearly 300,000 teachers and other school staff were laid off.

Public School 133

Public School Tutoring Economics History 133

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter. Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.)

Charter School 137

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 137

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Horace Tate is no relic of history; Black principals are still fighting that fight today. During my first year as principal of a Mississippi middle school, I fought to recruit Black teachers and retain the ones I already had on my campus.

Education 141

Education Tutoring Pedagogy Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It’s a scene that is replicated across the seven elementary schools and two high schools in this agricultural community of around 13,500 in California’s Central Valley. Students in a transitional kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in the Lindsay Unified district, work in small groups.

High School 139

High School Tradition History Tutoring 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Her parents spent about $3,500 on tutoring. Tomasulo, 19, of San Diego, fell short of her magic number, though she did get into her chosen school. This means the SAT and ACT are facing what could be the greatest challenge in their histories, which stretch back to the early 20 th century. She took practice tests daily.

Tutoring 110

Tutoring High School Education Policy Research 110

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. Yet the Brentwood Union Free School District suspended Martinez for more than six months. BRENTWOOD, N.Y. looking for him.

Tutoring 117

Tutoring Middle School High School Economics 117

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

hours of auditory instruction in small group or tutoring sessions, but continued to make progress if visual displays of the letters were combined with the sounds. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history. The researchers were left with only 16 high-quality studies, all of which were interventions with struggling students.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring K-12 Research Teaching 145

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Two of my recently graduated high school seniors, now college students, arrive at my classroom at 7:15 a.m. and World History classes. The national nonprofit Breakthrough Collaborative trains college students to teach middle school students during a six-week summer program. Read the original version here.

Tutoring 91

Tutoring Leadership Middle School World History 91

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

School districts and early childhood experts that are tracking the opting out of kindergarten report that some 5-year-olds are attending impromptu kindergarten classes offered by private preschools, while others are enrolled in online charter or for-profit schools. Other families are skipping the school year entirely.

Elementary School 144

Elementary School Tutoring Charter School Public School 144

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

And it is threatening the first-year college experiences that are so vital to student achievement — a year without orientation, in-person academic tutoring, learning communities and on-campus activities could easily threaten a student’s ability to acclimate to college life.

K-12 145

K-12 Tutoring Economics History 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

As the education field faces the challenge reflected in the latest dip in NAEP scores , we are reaching for tools and strategies such as high-dosage tutoring, extended learning time, personalized learning and more. Teachers bring the history of their own educational experiences into the classrooms they create.

Middle School 118

Middle School Tutoring History Teaching 118

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The teachers keep a close eye on this data and use it to develop small-group activities that make the material come to life — such as working at the virtual reality stations — or to identify the students who failed to master the lessons on their own and pull them out for extra tutoring. She thought her students would be excited.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Tutoring Middle School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Prophet Giles III works through questions, similar to those seen on the math portion of the Praxis Core exam, during a RISE teacher certification cohort class at Coahoma Early College High School in Clarksdale, Mississippi in late January. Aallyah Wright for Mississippi Today. CLARKSDALE, Miss. It proved to be an academic lifeline.

Tutoring 96

Tutoring High School Civics Teaching 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country. I am a primary resource when it comes to American History and civil rights, particularly in education. He is the author of “ Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer. ”.

American History 104

American History K-12 Civics History 104

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Mikaela Johnson, with her mother, Ashley Johnson, faces uncertain high school plans because of the coronavirus pandemic and her family’s unstable housing situation. In total, school districts in and around Kansas City work with several thousand homeless students each year. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school.

Public School 145

Public School High School Middle School Charter School 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For Zion, the school day starts at 9 a.m. The teenager’s classes in English and junior ROTC are taught by a district teacher, while history and math are self-paced courses via the online platform Edgenuity. The district had used Edgenuity before the pandemic and decided to keep using it for some high school courses.

Charter School 138

Charter School High School Tutoring Public School 138

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2024

From the first exploratory interviews I did on this topic, I was surprised to learn how deep the history of AI trying to teach went. champions, but couldn’t hack it as a tutor. Q: Why did you want to explore this question of how, and in what ways, AI can replace teachers? What didn’t it have?

Humanities 102

Humanities Tutoring History High School 102

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Debates over racial segregation in exam schools were already raging around the country before the chaos of the pandemic hit. Over 100,000 high school students were enrolled in 165 competitive, academically selective schools in 30 states, most of which used exam results for admissions, researchers Chester Finn Jr.

Public School 133

Public School High School Civics Middle School 133

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Once again, the technology acts as a placeholder.

Charter School 106

Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 106

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

Unless you teach high school math, chemistry, or history and do so using a very traditional approach – it probably isn’t relevant, important, or useful. They are mind-numbing and you will find yourself wondering … how is any of this relevant, important, or useful to me?

Tutoring 88

Tutoring Tradition History High School 88

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. Related: School counselors increasingly are missing link in getting kids to college. American University’s School of Education is doing something to address the imbalance. .”

Social Justice 111

Social Justice Tutoring Cultures Leadership 111

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. High school students can take a Native American history class.

Tutoring 82

Tutoring American History Cultures Middle School 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

At a time when parents, politicians and universities all want more students to go to college and graduate on time, the idea of letting them take college courses while in high school seems a great solution. Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. a former assistant U.S.

Tutoring 97

Tutoring High School Archiving K-12 97

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

On a recent weekday, students rushed through the hallways of Belgrade High School, about 10 miles outside Bozeman, to make it on time to study hall, their last class of the day. In one basement room, three teens waited quietly for Susan Davis, the Belgrade School District’s English language coordinator.

Charter School 131

Charter School Elementary School High School Middle School 131

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. At the same time, we’re also taking away science and history instruction where kids can develop knowledge and where they can put comprehension strategies into practice. On Saturdays, her students can get one-on-one tutoring.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Library Middle School Tutoring 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I took quality notes in class, worked tirelessly on problem sets and sought extra help from my professor and tutors. Currently, there are no standardized regulations guiding how schools should determine student eligibility, decide on appropriate accommodations or report accessibility policies. I just needed more time.

K-12 92

K-12 Tutoring Advocacy Public School 92

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. White, like many adult students, has quality work experience.

Economics 144

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In recent history, roughly half of first-year college students have been sent to remedial classes in math, English or both, according a 2016 Center for American Progress report. Researchers are studying how well companion corequisite courses and tutoring can help get these struggling students up to speed.

Tutoring 95

Tutoring High School Research History 95

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. He had high cognitive scores, but evaluators said he did not show skill gaps in the areas he needed to qualify as dyslexic.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

She had taken and retaken the ACT, trying to get a score high enough to get into college, with a scholarship. and not nearly high enough to get into most colleges. The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges.

Charter School 97

Charter School High School Cultures Public School 97

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A reading teacher from New Mexico – where reading scores are among the lowest in the country – wrote to say that Hanford’s reporting supports the overwhelming need to teach reading using phonics that she sees every day at the nonprofit literacy support center she runs, which tutors 360 children a week and has a waiting list of more than 100.

Elementary School 110

Elementary School Tutoring Teaching History 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Nearly three-fourths of students at New York City’s elite Stuyvesant High School are Asian American. Going to academic tutoring after school in China and India is just what one does if your parents can afford it: It’s what it takes to get into a top college. but lower achievement in South Korea.

Education 20

Education Sociology Economics Tutoring 20