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is a stickler for notes when he teaches algebra I to ninth graders at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. I really don’t think that they’re growing,” said Brown, who’s also president of the National Tutoring Association. “I I think this is a lost school year for most kids.”. Ishmael Brown Jr.

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MAY 24, 2021

Even advocates of longer school days and years emphasize that extra time by itself often doesn’t have an impact. Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising. But tutoring can work equally well even when the school day isn’t lengthened. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea.

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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. Helping teachers be the best version of themselves takes a huge investment of time and energy, and schools just don't have the resources. Teaching is hard.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Remote learning has changed the approach to out-of-school suspension at Shenendehowa Central School District, where more than a fourth of students identify as nonwhite. Grades K-5 in the district are in person, but middle and high schools are mostly hybrid. Related: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Katie Humphrey, the seventh grade counselor at Columbia Middle School, tries to normalize the idea of asking for mental health support to both children and parents. “I 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.”

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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. Even after her daughter received a diagnosis, Jackson felt the girl’s school wasn’t supporting her enough.

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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. It can help a teacher plan math lessons, or write a variety of math problems geared toward different levels of instruction.

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JULY 20, 2023

Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. “I I personally would advise school districts not to rush into buying a particular product, but really treat this year as a chance to educate yourself,” he said.

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MARCH 1, 2021

Teachers don’t have to change their existing lesson plans or textbooks to incorporate it. 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.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

And this past school year, dozens of elementary school administrators started training in LETRS, or Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling, which teaches them the “science of reading,” including how students learn to decode letters on the page and form meaning from words. They were told to implement them immediately.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The teenagers attend high schools and middle schools in the lowest-scoring school district in the state of Mississippi, West Bolivar Consolidated. This fall, 91 schools across the state have students signed up to take courses online, a number that could rise if schools add classes this spring.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Absolutely not,” said Megan Benay, senior national director of data systems and strategy at Great Oaks Charter Schools, a network of charter schools that focuses on preparing kids for college through personalized tutoring. “As At some schools, this appears to be happening. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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MAY 16, 2018

Related: Former educators answer call to return to school. The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses prepare high school students for college rigor, enhance admission prospects, and, in many cases, reduce college costs by enabling students to earn college credit prior to matriculation.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

In this file photo, a Mississippi high school student works on a computer in class. Schools across the state are ramping up technology to provide more access to courses for students. Infusing lessons with music. At Nora Davis Magnet Elementary School in Laurel, the arts are already a regular part of the day.

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APRIL 22, 2020

At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. The Richmond (Va.)

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

English teacher Samara Rand goes over a passage with a student in her class at Holmes County Central High School. The high school ranked as one of the lowest performing in Mississippi and Rand, a second-year teacher, often dissects passages with her students. Photo: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Related: School choice on steroids.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Ever since schools reopened and resumed in-person instruction, districts have been trying to help students catch up from pandemic learning losses. The Biden Administration has urged schools to use tutoring. Many schools have purchased an online version that gives students 24/7 access to tutors. Very few do.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ever since the pandemic shut down schools almost three years ago, I’ve been writing about tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. I often get questions about research on tutoring. How effective is tutoring? How many schools are doing it? High-dosage tutoring is more like the latter.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The High School of Fashion Industries in New York City is one of thousands of schools around the country that are offering high-dosage tutoring to students. students are receiving this kind of intensive, daily tutoring, which can take place in person or virtually.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

Schools report that students are receiving more tutoring sessions when they’re scheduled during the school day without competing instructional activities at the same time. Tutoring is by far the most effective way to help children catch up at school, according to rigorous research studies.

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What’s Next Edtech firms relying on teachers and tutors to support their business models often take a highly personalized approach to training. Startups like GoMyCode, out of Tunisia, or Kibo School, which works with learners in Africa, teach coding and tech skills, and source tutors directly from their own alumni pipelines.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

But kids of all ages — from kindergarten to high school — suffered academically and emotionally during months of isolation. Tramel and her team, who in many prior years had never offered summer school, realized an intensive array of summer offerings was the best way to try to catch kids up on foundational skills in reading and math.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

Though they didnt rise to the threshold of my 10 most read stories, I would also recommend these three stories about troubles with tutoring , something called subitizing and the puzzle of chronic absenteeism.) Low-achieving students aim higher while high-achieving students are discouraged from applying to the Ivy League.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. A new principal pledged to stay longer than a school year.

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