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AUGUST 26, 2024

The bot, called Khanmigo, told me I had answered a basic high school Algebra 2 problem involving negative exponents wrong. For basic high-school algebra, AI’s error rate fell from 25 percent to zero. Math is a particular land of make-believe for AI chatbots. I knew my answer was right. It was frustrating.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. Education researchers have a particular kind of tutoring in mind, what they call “high-dosage” tutoring. The best results occur when tutoring takes place at school during the regular day.

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JUNE 11, 2017

Match High School senior Aneudy Polanco celebrates his choice of UMass Amherst with his mother and girlfriend on college ‘signing day.’ This is the final story in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. Tutors danced.

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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.

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JULY 4, 2018

These and other challenges mean that, at a time when growing proportions of high school students have been successfully encouraged to go on to college, more than one in five full-time freshmen nationwide fail to return for a second year, according to the data. That’s the conundrum we still haven’t gotten figured out yet.”.

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JULY 13, 2021

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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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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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

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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MAY 2, 2022

Alternative high schools often get a bad rap. New York’s transfer schools are frequently featured on the city’s lists of schools that need improvement and are threatened with closure. argues that New York’s transfer schools are doing a much better job at educating struggling students than traditional schools.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. Take, for instance, Glendale Union High School District. Agua Fria Union High School District, meanwhile, moved in the opposite direction.

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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.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 25, 2021

Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? One of the most important resources that schools have is time. As Tom noted, it’s like “a college schedule in a high school environment. Excerpt 05.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families can spend their ESAs on almost any education-related expenses, such as private school tuition, tutoring and homeschool supplies. Now, the recent rise in tuition may price more Arizona families out of the nation’s most expansive experiment in school choice.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. 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. Chronic absenteeism is another big factor.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Despite this, our schools are being asked to take on more. Which all begs the question: Should we expect the traditional education system to add responsibilities when we already know that it has not been able to keep up over the past few years? Indiana is offering families grants of up $1,000 to support after-school tutoring.

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MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We fill an entire school here.”

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. Flipped classrooms also free up class time for teachers to help students individually, as a tutor does. classrooms, from city college campuses to suburban elementary schools.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

His first three tries put him in pre-calculus, a blow for a student who aced honors physics and computer science in high school. He struggled to understand algebra, a subject he studied only during a year of remote learning in high school. “I Penn State tackled the problem by expanding peer tutoring.

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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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OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As a family, we wanted to spend as much time with her as possible throughout her recovery, which meant reconsidering my traditional elementaryschool schedule. Public school choice allows students like me to personalize education in order to achieve unique goals. I can even work ahead of schedule if I have extra time.

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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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MAY 31, 2022

He passed the first two, pre-algebra and high school-level algebra, but got stuck in intermediate algebra. It’s about thinking more creatively about how to support students who don’t need a full repeat of high school coursework.” The courses did not count toward a degree or transfer credits.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Aya Hamza’s academic and extracurricular record at Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami should have made her path to college relatively effortless. Aya Hamza, a high school senior, with her father. Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami, which has nine college counselors for 3,000 students. “I

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It was Halloween afternoon and the first floor of the McKenna Center — a renovated Victorian house located across the street from Central Falls High School in Rhode Island — was abuzz with teenagers chatting and admiring one another’s costumes. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Yet many students, even those who perform well in high school English classes and those who enjoy writing, struggle to express themselves effectively through personal essays. The dismal student-to-counselor ratio in American high schools is another challenge.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While it is good news that these results are lighting a fire under the education policy world and highlighting the particular need among students of color, the traditional approach to improving results — more math, more reading, more pressure — seems dubious at best. The pandemic created disastrous academic deficits for U.S.

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JULY 9, 2024

Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Pricila Cano Padron, of Dallas, Texas, remembers her “wake-up call” in middle school, when she helped tutor English-learning classmates in math and reading (she is bilingual). Each story — each person — is unique.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

The accepted lexicon for discussing college students is “traditional,” meaning those who attend college full time right out of high school, and “non-traditional,” meaning those who attend when they’re older than 24, have a family, work, are financially independent from their parents or have been in the military.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

After changing high schools, getting expelled and dropping out, he earned a GED diploma. He’s gotten assistance in the form of grants, tutoring and counseling from a nonprofit called Generation Hope that supports student parents and which he calls a “huge blessing.” He had his son at 17 and dropped out of high school.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Many dyslexia advocates remain loyal to Orton-Gillingham, McHale-Small said, because so many parents have kids whom they believe were helped by Orton-Gillingham tutors. Orton-Gillingham involves very expensive teacher training, she said, which many schools cannot afford. “You can’t deny the findings of multiple studies.” .

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AUGUST 25, 2021

The district is offering summer school to those who need extra instruction, and in the fall, it plans to focus on the math content deemed most important, using flexible instruction. They will likely be short-term, no more than a month or two, to address certain skills for groups of no more than six students. “We’re

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AUGUST 25, 2021

It was terrible for me in high school. In high school, I dreaded math class,” she said. Karolewics, who led the task force, cited research by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University that indicated traditional placement tests were doing a poor job of placing students in developmental course tracks. “It

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