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TEACHER VOICE: Through tutoring, I discovered I love teaching middle schoolers

The Hechinger Report

I decided this path wasn’t for me, but I didn’t see other alternatives until a friend recommended joining Minnesota’s Reading Corps and Math Corps, two programs that place tutors in local schools. While tutoring, I felt a spark of joy and purpose I hadn’t felt before. Schools also need teachers.

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PROOF POINTS: Many high school math teachers cobble together their own instructional materials from the internet and elsewhere, a survey finds

The Hechinger Report

Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate.

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PROOF POINTS: Many schools are buying on-demand tutoring but a study finds that few students are using it

The Hechinger Report

Like hundreds of school districts, Aspire purchased an online tutoring service for the spring of 2021 to help these students. Students could log in to the tutoring service, called Paper , whenever they wanted, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and connect with a tutor to help with schoolwork in any subject.

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Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students

The Hechinger Report

A student in a high school just outside of New York City. Then, as teachers had time to develop lesson plans and adjust to new curricula, student performance began to improve. But in New York, the exams are necessary for high school graduation. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

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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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

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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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

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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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