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AUGUST 19, 2024

One high school math teacher told me that she thinks learning failed to recover and continued to deteriorate because schools didn’t rush to fill the gaps right away. 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.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Yet another explanation is a psychological one. The isolation may have stunted psychological development and that ultimately affected motivation, study skills and the ability to delay gratification – all necessary to excel in math. Students at Catholic schools are generally much higher performing than students at public schools.

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MAY 7, 2024

Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. Not in fifth grade, but years later, when I was in middle school and high school, I did meet students who were just learning English as their second language. I’ve wanted to go into the teaching profession ever since then.

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AUGUST 22, 2020

Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, was concerned about how that could happen safely. “I I go to a school with over 2,000 kids that walk through the door every single day,” she said. No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. Credit: Chloe Pressley.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. Under Pressure There are a number of theories about how math anxiety relates to performance, according to Colleen Ganley, an associate professor of developmental psychology at Florida State University.

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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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JUNE 3, 2020

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio. Very few have succeeded.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Weak math skills impede a child’s progress later in life, preventing them from getting through college , a vocational program or even high school. Their meta-analysis was published in the July 2024 issue of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

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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. School counselors aren’t appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2017

Hightower credits the district for getting her back on her feet when she was homeless, pregnant and in high school. Failing grades and truancy threatened to keep her from graduating high school. She was introduced to Clemon Jimerson, a specialist hired by the Harrison County School District to help homeless students.

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MAY 8, 2023

“The thing is,” given its high price and questions about its value, “college might be a scam,” said Gates, an 18-year-old senior at Bogan Computer Technical High School on Chicago’s South Side. He’s considering going to a trade school instead. Donje Gates, a senior at Bogan Computer Technical High School in Chicago.

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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. We have a problem in America.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. He had high cognitive scores, but evaluators said he did not show skill gaps in the areas he needed to qualify as dyslexic.

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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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JUNE 27, 2020

Now he gets extra help in school for an emotional disability. Even under normal circumstances, getting him to do homework without a tutor is a challenge. She already plans to work until she’s 78, when Carter is set to finish high school. The quarantine is also taking a psychological toll, Clough said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She tutored other kids from public housing.

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MAY 4, 2023

She had enrolled at ASU right after high school, back in 2010. She took classes on campus and planned to major in psychology, but she didn’t really know what she wanted to do with her life. Krip had started community college after high school, but left and went on to work in retail and as a nanny.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

In the most common way to understand the phenomenon, worrying about math causes a student to avoid it and therefore slows down their improvement in math, according to Colleen Ganley , an associate professor of developmental psychology at Florida State University. But a case of “senioritis” caused her to drop out of high school calculus.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Still, she says, “sometimes the expectations parents have around the progress kids should make in school is too high. Schools have to work under resource limitations. … The school is sometimes left in the position of deciding who to give treatment to — and who not to.”.

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MAY 12, 2022

Another tutors. Role : High school biology teacher Location : Berlin, Maryland Salary : $71,000 Years teaching : 11 Second job : Co-owner of Buzz Meadery Megan Hines holds a glass of honey wine at Buzz Meadery, which she owns with her husband, a fellow teacher. One is a travel agent on the side. Another sells cosmetics.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Because of her work at the university’s Student Social Support R&D Lab , which hunts for low-cost solutions in education, she was curious to calculate just how much bang schools are getting for this two-cent solution to reduce absenteeism. Then the results started coming in. But this was for a voluntary program.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. This is increasingly true among high school graduates less accustomed to forging their own paths, he said.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

The teenager is behind on credits, but hopes to catch up and graduate on time this school year. SAN DIEGO — Zaire Wallace looked forward to playing sports in high school. After his second suspension, he enrolled at The Charter School of San Diego, an alternative school serving many students at risk of dropping out.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

That meant Cristian started his first day of school in America without a hug from his mom or a reassuring smile from his dad. Nor did he walk into school with his brother. Cristian is set to graduate from North High School in the spring. In middle school, they take a special language arts block class in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2018

The Webb Consolidated Independent School District, which serves Bruni and a handful of other tiny towns, is launching what might be the nation’s first wind turbine technician program for high school students. The position requires technical school training. We were getting paid good money,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass High School in New Orleans, wanted her students to have the same transformative experience she did on a high school trip to Ghana. I wasn’t sure how to explain to a rising high-school junior why I’d followed her and her classmates to Belize. Towana Pierre-Floyd, principal of Frederick A.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Until a decade ago, however, the group’s education experience was limited to after-school tutoring and a Head Start program in Puerto Rico. In the 2016-17 school year, for example, just 21 percent of third-graders in foster care in New York City earned a proficient score in English and 20 percent did so in math.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

She’d dropped out of high school her junior year. Cohen High School, more than half the city’s black adults didn’t have even a high school diploma, let alone a university credential. But even that goal felt unreachable after Metz became pregnant in 1985, her junior year of high school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Even if the high school graduation rate rose to 100 percent and every one of those students went to college, however, it would fall short by a quarter of a million degree holders, according to a new study by the Education Commission of the States. Yet the number of people over 24 in college isn’t going up. to South Korea. Related: U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Could it be that all this professional tutoring is actually enabling [upper middle class] students to perform better on their schoolwork.” Dear editor, Do you think this rise in grades has something to do with all the “tutoring” that is going on with upper middle class families? Have something to say? August 23, 2017.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

Credit: Moriah Ratner for The Hechinger Report Finn found that the teachers were more likely to view the students with obesity as academically inferior, “messy” and more likely to need tutoring. She received the waiver and continued her high school studies at home. She plans to study psychology. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Under such plans, the funding for a course taken by an individual student goes to the school or online company offering the course, often away from the student’s local district. Thanks to a relatively new state policy, all spring Clarke went to the school library during second period for an online sociology class. The editors.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

What we are reading All-charter no more: New Orleans opens its first traditional school in nearly two decades My colleague, Ariel Gilreath, reports on the opening of the first traditional school run by the New Orleans school district since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

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