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MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. Courtesy of the Askew family. FLAGSTAFF, AZ. — Maybe teaching.”.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

I took quality notes in class, worked tirelessly on problem sets and sought extra help from my professor and tutors. For example, at some colleges and universities, students will find that their history of accommodations in high school is not a sufficient criterion to access support. I just needed more time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

The History of the Nationally Recommended Student-to-Counselor Ratio,” when I was writing another story on the growth in school counselors. Nicola’s research began in the fall of 2019 to fulfill a history class assignment and her paper is now under review for potential publication at an academic journal.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

The changes at San Diego State and in other colleges’ math classes are similar to components of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice — the movement driving change at the K-12 level in the 40-plus states that have adopted it — which also place an emphasis on asking students to communicate their reasoning and construct arguments.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Part of the extra cost is to cover the tutoring, coaching and counseling that are needed to help low-income high school students catch up and accelerate. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The teachers keep a close eye on this data and use it to develop small-group activities that make the material come to life — such as working at the virtual reality stations — or to identify the students who failed to master the lessons on their own and pull them out for extra tutoring. She thought her students would be excited.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

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. Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology.

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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. Eighty-four percent of students go on to attend the colleges from which they took their dual-enrollment classes, the CCRC study found.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. During RISE’s first year of operation, Hudson had a staff of three, 12 volunteers, and a $25,000 budget: No one got paid. It proved to be an academic lifeline.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Tutors danced. That’s the next big challenge after years of being pushed, prodded and prepped for higher education at Match High, where students are selected by lottery and get individual tutors for help with a tough college-prep curriculum. dean of students Robert Hendricks exclaimed. Teachers clapped.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. At the K-12 school, there are 26 or 27 students in one first-grade class, Eubanks said. We’re in … survival mode,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

ESSA leaves too much accountability up to the states, they argue, with little history to suggest that it’s warranted. isn’t a nuanced enough question to cover the full impact of the law, arguably the most aggressive federal intervention in public education in the nation’s history because it tied federal funds to school improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2016

Some have poor attendance records or have a history of not completing class assignments on time. The MTDA ensures that all students enrolled in online credit recovery courses have virtual access to certified teachers and 24/7 online content-area tutoring. Read more about Blended Learning.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Her mom said Tye’s school, McDonogh 35 Senior High School, wasn’t giving her the academic support she needed to improve her score, so Mansion had to go elsewhere for help — taking Tye to programs at the local university, and paying for private tutoring. “We Now she wants others to learn that history.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018, for the first time in district history, a majority of Sioux City’s 14,976 students, about 52 percent, were people of color. Even with plentiful low-skill jobs and with some immigrants running small businesses or finding better paid jobs as translators or tutors, poverty is still a reality among recent arrivals.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. Her parents hired a tutor to help her. Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. Tyrone Colson is on the autism spectrum.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white. The State, she said, underfunded special education in public schools in Mississippi by more than $12 million just this year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She tutored other kids from public housing. y Christmas, 12 percent of Sci Academy’s first graduates had either dropped out or transferred to a community college. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. The air smelled familiar. psychology class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

At Haven, a decade-old South Bronx charter school serving roughly 450 kids in pre-K through seventh grade, moods are characterized by colors. Until a decade ago, however, the group’s education experience was limited to after-school tutoring and a Head Start program in Puerto Rico. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

We have a history here, in the Delta, that most African-Americans do feel powerless,” Dickerson said. Math and literacy tutors showed up once a week, or just once a month. At the time, the number of academically distressed schools stood at six out of 48, just more than 12 percent of the district.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

But, while the results of research on what might work to catch kids up is not always clear-cut, many education experts point to tutoring as a tried-and-true method. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Phoenix Union received around $12 million from the first coronavirus stimulus bill, according to Gestson. Experts — and history — suggest that school districts need much more than what federal and state governments have provided so far. Any decline in revenues for state and local government is going to be a huge hit to K-12 schools.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

Click here to subscribe to EdSurge's weekly K-12, higher ed, or biz newsletters. But this next chapter in our country’s education history must dwarf those efforts. Increase students’ access to tutoring, after school activities and interventions to help address lost instructional time.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When he wasn’t at football practice, he spent most evenings last year at the Rosedale Freedom Project, taking advantage of the program’s free, in-person tutoring. Two of his core courses — English and history — were delivered online. “I and I can’t do it with a computer [teaching me],” McKenzie said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2024

Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and effective way to jumpstart lagging student performance post-pandemic. Educators strongly endorse tutoring, when done right, and believe it can help students make real academic gains. This could be a win-win. Tapping into the $1.2

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

And we heard from a K-12 teacher who was among the thousands of U.S. educators that lost their gigs tutoring students in China online once that country put in new restrictions against such businesses. In fact, our most popular episode of the year was about the strange and messy history of gifted and talented programs in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. billion in federal K-12 aid. Related: How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up. That windfall sent educators scrambling this spring to find the best ways to spend it.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

That’s because human beings didn’t invent written language until relatively recently in human history, just a few thousand years ago. Seidenberg knows of a child who was struggling so much with reading that her mother paid for a private tutor. Teachers in the K-12 education system are used to professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As Rand earned community service hours tutoring children, she wondered if teaching was in her future. A study from University of California, Berkeley economist Rucker Johnson suggests exposure to integrated schools among other reforms, such as high-quality pre-K and equitable school funding, can help disrupt the cycle of poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Another deal with Berea College brought close to a dozen AmeriCorps volunteers into the school to act as tutors and help support students through tough personal issues. Over the past several years, school staff has raised academic expectations for their students, adding advanced placement classes and emphasizing college.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Students who are learning English, for example, bring an extra 12 to 55 cents on the dollar. Adam Stevens, a history teacher at Brooklyn Tech, has seen both sides, having taught in schools that receive the academic bonus as well as those that do not. Kids called in ‘Broken Tech,’ ” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

To stave off this learning loss, Miami-Dade is adding summer sessions and working to identify vulnerable kids and pair them with virtual tutors and mentors, among other steps. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2025

However, Trumps enthusiasm for artificial intelligence now presents a unique opportunity to prepare K-12 students for an increasingly tech-driven world. competitive globally, investing in AI literacy across K-12 education is essential especially for workforce preparation. Thats why, to keep the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Before the first month of classes ended, Wooten hired a tutor to assist her daughter with the class. Another district, Lamar County, announced that children in pre-K through fifth grade must have a medical exemption in order to continue online lessons. A strong student before the pandemic, her grade in Algebra II slipped to a D.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

But after the state cut millions from its K-12 budget, Superintendent Jesús Jara indicated that the district may reverse course. Edna Posadas-Ingles tutors some of her former students while her home country, the Philippines, remains in quarantine. History from a teacher working in another district.

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