The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2023

After a year of short-burst tutoring, more than double the number of kindergarteners hit an important reading milestone. Researchers are tracking the children to see if the gains from this cheaper and quicker version of high-dosage tutoring are long lasting and lead to more third graders becoming proficient readers.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2014

It has been yet another exciting year at New Milford High School. We have continued to sustain numerous innovative initiatives while looking for other opportunities to improve the learning experience for the school community. educational technology Laura Fleming New Milford High School Proton Media Protosphere virtual reality'

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

More than 75 percent of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50 percent of high school math teachers said they did. One high school teacher in Louisiana who participated in the survey said his students needed a more advanced curriculum.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

In recent years, Johnson, along with many other professors, has noticed that students struggle more than ever with the jump from high school to college. With new technologies and opportunities for help outside the classroom, like private tutoring or AI, wealthier students are often better equipped than their peers to enter college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

Summer schools can be enriched to provide students with one-on-one instruction and to give teachers and university education majors the opportunity to learn and develop highly effective teaching methods. As part of their coursework, the university students tutored struggling first and second grade readers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Early college high school students graduate college in greater numbers. Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. All students take both high school and colleges classes simultaneously. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

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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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How well does online tutoring work? The federal government is pushing schools to spend a big chunk of their $122 billion in federal American Rescue Plan funds on tutoring , but bringing in armies of tutors into school buildings is a logistical nightmare. Online tutoring is a tempting solution.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Topics around how AI fits into education continued to draw listeners this year, including our interview with Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy, about his groups new AI chatbot tutor. Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As a high-school senior in New Jersey, Ernesto Reyes Velasco couldn’t envision himself taking the leap to become an independent college student. He took college classes for credit, received tutoring and advising and learned about other services available on campus and where to find them. “I MONTCLAIR, N.J. — Money was tight.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

New data released this week from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, known as the “nation’s report card,” should raise the alarm for America’s high schools. Those students are now freshmen in high school. But while the task facing high schools is daunting, this is no time for hand-wringing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But he’s never seen anything like the volume of recruiting materials pouring in since his fourth child reached her senior year in high school this fall. “If Bode provided data showing that standardized test scores and high school grade-point averages of admitted students have also gone up.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

Districts have implemented a wide range of interventions, from hiring tutors to holding contests that reward students for reading as many books as possible. elementary, middle and high schools, and the results were striking.

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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.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Despite tutoring and extra help at home, many students at the top 90th percentile appear not to have mastered middle school math skills as well as previous high-scoring eighth graders. We are producing 360,000 kids every year going into high school, and they know a tremendous amount of math.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

A troubling post-pandemic pattern is emerging across the nation’s schools: test scores and attendance are down, yet more students are earning high school diplomas. suggests bleak futures for many of these high school graduates, given the declining rate of college attendance and completion. A majority of D.C.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In-class tutors and data chats at her middle school in Compton, California, have made a dramatic difference, the 11-year-old said. She proudly pulled up a performance tracker at a tutoring session last week, displaying a column of perfect 100 percent scores on all her weekly quizzes from January. Thursday, Feb. Thursday, Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. The federal government would eventually give schools almost $190 billion to reopen and to help students who fell behind when schools were closed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A recent experiment in a high school provides a cautionary tale. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students who had access to ChatGPT while doing practice math problems did worse on a math test compared with students who didn’t have access to ChatGPT.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. And that’s when I said no.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Eighty percent of Americans think online learning after high school should cost less than in-person programs, according to a 2024 survey of 1,705 adults by New America. Bittners confusion about the price is widespread. After all, technology has reduced prices in many other industries.

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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

JULY 9, 2024

Credit: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report Since the November 2022 launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an expanding cast of AI tutors and helpers have entered the learning landscape. But, there aren’t enough human tutors available nor enough money to pay for them, especially in the wake of pandemic-induced learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

An Israeli study found long-term benefits from high school remedial instruction taught by the students’ teachers after school. There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. The benefits of the extra high school instruction were long lasting.

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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. Sherry Smith understands that kind of anxiety. She didn’t even want to step foot into a math class. I hated to disclose that to people.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

At the start of each school year, for example, the class devotes a few days to trust-building exercises, not math. Falling behind in middle school math has ripple effects. Students who fail Algebra I (which most kids take in ninth grade) are far less likely to graduate high school on time and attend a four-year college.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But their families have managed to give them a jump-start through additional after-school programs, tutors and other resources, he says. Students in upper-track math courses are no smarter or better at math than others. Still, the change was working, according to Nguyen and Iwasaki.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The downsides of homework and scheduled activities were most pronounced during the high school years, when students are feeling pressure to earn high grades and load up on extracurriculars for their college applications, the researchers found. She wonders what would happen if little kids were less scheduled in elementary school.

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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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