The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Some well-to-do families hire tutors — sometimes paying a teacher’s salary — to work alongside a child who is attending remote kindergarten. Voong adjusted her schedule at work, in the human resources department of a home health agency, and kept Ethan at home in the mornings so she could help him with remote kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

“Because we are a coastal community prone to hurricanes, a coastal community prone to the arrival of literally dozens of thousands of children, immigrants,” Carvalho said, “we have naturally adapted to dealing with crises whether they are human crises, environmental crises or health crises.”.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

educators that lost their gigs tutoring students in China online once that country put in new restrictions against such businesses. And last but not least, listeners gravitated to episodes we did that revisited the history of longstanding educational narratives and looked how we got here.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

If history is a guide, the flashiest notions being workshopped in these places won’t get far. This AI answers questions in a discussion forum alongside human teaching assistants; students often can’t distinguish among them, their professor says.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In recent history, roughly half of first-year college students have been sent to remedial classes in math, English or both, according a 2016 Center for American Progress report. Leave this field empty if you're human: Policymakers have been trying to fix the system. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For example, my research is on Parkinson’s disease, using magnetic resonance imaging to understand how comorbidities and health-life histories may change the rate of cell death in a critical region of interest in the brain. STEM education, like scientific research, should be rigorous and demanding; an area where some failure is expected.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. His counselors reached out. She has twin 15-year-old daughters.)

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

While the tutoring and on-the-run support that have replaced it may smooth their paths, at least one university president wonders whether future engineers will sufficiently master the calculus they need. Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The teenager’s classes in English and junior ROTC are taught by a district teacher, while history and math are self-paced courses via the online platform Edgenuity. That missing piece of human interaction.”. For Zion, the school day starts at 9 a.m. and lasts until 3 p.m., with a break for lunch.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Reardon, a sociologist, says the growing achievement gaps he has found stem from increasing income inequality in our society and the decisions of many rich parents to invest more in their kids, from private tutors to after-school programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

As he finishes his first year there with volunteer tutors from Montana State University and a part-time teacher’s aide on loan from the district’s central office, Dickerson this spring started sorting through resumes to hire Bozeman’s first teacher for English learners.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need. Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. Three missed meetings are grounds for expulsion. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

. — In front of the iconic Old Manse, the oldest building in Arkansas constructed solely for the purpose of educating black students, there’s a plaque recounting the rich and poignant history of Arkansas Baptist College. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. Her parents hired a tutor to help her. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Many factors boost a child’s chance of success in school — like having wealthy parents who can afford tutors. There’s an ugly history of proponents of eugenics , who believe in reshaping humanity by breeding “superior traits” and removing “inferior traits,” justifying their thinking with genetics.

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The Hechinger Report

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. I have never in my history of taking care of kids had to write out a 10-day notice.” The classroom walls of Mott Haven Academy Charter School are covered in student work.

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Ben Newmark

JANUARY 31, 2024

If a history teacher fails to spot a child is drawing anime characters in their jotter instead of answering a question on the feudal system, they are not included. My children go to a school that understands this and sees inclusion in learning as a right both have – that respects the inherent humanity and value of all children.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The human brain isn’t wired to read. “This is the most studied aspect of human learning.” That’s because human beings didn’t invent written language until relatively recently in human history, just a few thousand years ago. Writing is a code humans invented to represent speech sounds.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity,” said Elissa Stein, a former PTA co-president at Brooklyn Tech, the Fort Greene specialized high school with more than 5,500 students, who now runs an advisory service for public school parents. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Mostly it’s a way for them to do a kind of teaching they can’t do at their regular jobs,” explains Zena Hitz, founder of the Catherine Project and a tutor (faculty member) at St. I think the arts and humanities gives us a site for doing all of those things.” Maybe the humanities will be just fine. A little luxurious.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. We need human connection to develop, and schools are integral to growing those abilities in every child.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. We had a tutor. We didn’t have wireless but used Covid funds to put that in and started advertising that we’re open for tutoring. Before, if something was due on the 13 th , it was due on the 13 th.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It’s really about excluding people, and we have a long history of doing that,” said Cole. As a first-year student living at home, Molina recalled at first even being unsure how classes worked, where to find food or tutoring help on campus, and where to make friends. It is not really about fairness. It is not really about merit.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

His campaign website says he plans to reverse any gender-affirming care policies implemented by President Joe Biden, who signed an executive order in 2022 encouraging the Departments of Education and of Health and Human Services to expand access to health care and gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ students. Nirvi Shah Teaching about U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s. In July 2023, Harris criticized a new history standard in Florida that said the experience of being enslaved had given people skills “for their personal benefit.”

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