The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Ask the average high school administrator about their biggest worries, and it’s likely they’ll cite serious concerns about learning loss during the Covid-19 pandemic. They find school boring. My conversations with students make one thing clear:They think the biggest problem with high school is that it’s a huge drag.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. When Lou Allen started the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut in 2005, he didn’t woo the state’s top students. White and Asian students dominate advanced science and math classes in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

A student in a high school just outside of New York City. A similar pattern seemed to be emerging among the state’s high school students, who are required to pass a series of exams, called Regents, to earn a diploma. But in New York, the exams are necessary for high school graduation. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

That meant he had to overcome even more obstacles than other Mexican immigrants, unable to communicate with most of his classmates and teachers at North Hollywood High School. “I But he learned Spanish and then English, staying after school for tutoring and moving on to honors and Advanced Placement classes.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But instead of graduating from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in four years, he took six. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years. Sign up for our newsletter. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2024

champions, but couldn’t hack it as a tutor. The post AI vs. humans: Who comes out ahead? So, then I heard the story of Watson, an AI engine that quickly and easily dispatched Jeopardy! It clearly had the necessary knowledge at its beck and call. What didn’t it have? appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

When she arrived at Southern Maine Womens Reentry Center in December 2021, she was 51, had left high school when she was 16, and had only attended two weeks of a ninth grade math class. Since 2022 , shes been pursuing an associates degree in human services from prison through a remote program with Washington County Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. TAMU-Texarkana may be the smallest of the system’s 11 campuses, but it’s been growing steadily. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. That experience showed me that high-dosage tutoring can't be the only tool we offer students after the disruptions of COVID-19.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

Throughout the United Kingdom, including England where this study took place, 11th year students take General Certificate of Secondary Education [GCSE] exams, which are akin to high school exit exams. Years 10 and 11 are equivalent to 9th and 10th grades in the United States.) educators on how to spend their class time. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Jake Price, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington AI can serve as a tutor, giving a student who is floundering with a problem immediate feedback. Min Sun, a University of Washington education professor, thinks students should use ChatGPT like a personal tutor.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Black students are disproportionately placed into the lower-tiered math tracks in high school and college. The lower-tiered tracks are more likely to repeat the same basic computational skills over and over again — something that computers have been able to do more efficiently than humans for decades. Just as U.S.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The long list of general, special-ed, Catholic and charter schools that turned my son away indicate how little choice actually exists, despite the marketing of ESA proponents. I was not able to homeschool, so a reading tutor and his iPad became his only access to education. Related: School choice had a big moment in the pandemic.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

Amid the chaotic deluge of new generative AI tools, claims and calamities inundating school leaders, Carnegie Learning has been all in on AI for nearly 25 years. The path to their collective goal is equally succinct: continuous research, customer feedback and growth. And grow, they have.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them. Logue originally sought to conduct a simpler, cleaner study of only algebra, comparing the remedial prerequisite to the college course plus tutoring support.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math. To do this well, they often need small-group or one-on-one teaching, which is non-existent in many schools’ math instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

But the district had no plans for changes to other grades, much less to do away with high school honors classes. Math teacher Jordan Baines of Troy, Michigan, with students at Boulan Park Middle School. Then, for six years, the school made no other changes. Credit: Amanda J. I’m not going to hurt your kid,’” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

D’Mello’s approach was to install inexpensive eye trackers on the computers in an Indiana high school classroom. However, it’s also possible that interactive software, such as the Guru Tutor used in this experiment, is relatively more engaging. Solutions like that frighten me.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Despite these drawbacks, the company has an interesting repository of technology usage from roughly 400,000 students, kindergarten through high school, across 26 states. Yes, even kindergarteners are using apps at school.) Schools often buy many of them. Calculating financial waste is tricky.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

While the families in this case stand accused of leveraging highly paid “consultants” — and while others benefit from expensive SAT and essay prep services — countless students do not even have access to a high school counselor. And as long as that remains the case, the promise of hard work and a system of opportunity is an illusion.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Inside a rural high school, five Advanced Placement physics students furiously scribbled notes about a video of a Yale University professor speaking more than 1,200 miles away. When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Obviously, if low-income students can be tutored, all students can be tutored — and better-resourced communities will be quick to catch on to this. Obviously, if low-income students can be tutored, all students can be tutored — and better-resourced communities will be quick to catch on to this.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

Amarachi Orakwue felt stifled during high school in Minnesota, having immigrated to the United States from Nigeria in 2010. Its student-adviser ratio is much lower than at other schools, and it boasts a tutoring center staffed not by fellow students, but by faculty members. Mikhail Zinshteyn for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When he fled Honduras for New Orleans two years ago, Carlos, now 16 and a high school junior, hoped for just two things: a quiet place to live and an opportunity to play real soccer on a real team. A high school squad, he thought, would be the best place to start. Few New Orleans high schools have soccer teams.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Intelligent tutoring systems in math provided hints when students got stuck, offered complete explanations and displayed step-by-step examples. That doesn’t necessarily mean that schools and parents should be putting low-achieving students on computers more often. Students learn by doing. But some of the feedback was sophisticated.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: A few weeks ago, we took a look at generative AI’s potential to change teaching and learning on college campuses around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Black students are less likely to apply and be admitted to the state’s top tier schools. Black Virginians were more likely to have grown up in poor neighborhoods and attended elementary, middle and high schools with other poor students, less experienced teachers and fewer resources. Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The National Education Policy Center, for example, found that the high school graduation rate last year was only 53 percent for virtual charters, which enroll the majority of online students, and 62 percent for district-run virtual schools. That missing piece of human interaction.”. The research paints a grim picture.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Her first two years of high school, she cycled through three different schools. Nationally, just 50 percent of foster youth graduate high school by age 18, according to estimates, and 2 to 9 percent obtain a bachelor’s degree. He graduated from JW Sexton High School, a STEM-focused magnet school, in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Mark Nelson was ready to take a final during his sophomore year at Monrovia High School in Southern California in 2011. These schools aren’t only failing their students. Sign up for our newsletter.

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