The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

As the education field faces the challenge reflected in the latest dip in NAEP scores , we are reaching for tools and strategies such as high-dosage tutoring, extended learning time, personalized learning and more. Teachers bring the history of their own educational experiences into the classrooms they create.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

At the Williston-Elko Middle School in rural South Carolina, where she has taught for seven years, more than three out of every four students are poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-priced lunch. Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. Parents of young children are worried.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2021

It was starting to feel like a normal seventh grade lunch at West Middle School. Isabella Rogers, 12, poses for a portrait at West Middle School on April 28 in Brockton, Massachusetts. This was the first week students were back at school in person, after a remote year due to COVID-19. BROCKTON, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Yet the Brentwood Union Free School District suspended Martinez for more than six months. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year. In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Middle school students at the Innovation Academy experiment with building electrical circuits. The Innovation Academy workspace at Dysart Unified School District looked more like a tech startup’s headquarters than a classroom. Photo: Jamie Martines. SURPRISE, Ariz. — Photo: Jamie Martines.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles. I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

and World History classes. The national nonprofit Breakthrough Collaborative trains college students to teach middle school students during a six-week summer program. In the process, the high school students end up strengthening their own skills. The elementary school students they teach show almost as much growth.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Two chairs by the fireplace sit ready for one-on-one tutoring, a cluster of ottomans nearby can accommodate a study group, and spaces to hunker down with a book or notes abound: a couch by the front door layered with pillows and blankets, a desk tucked into a corner, a fire table on the patio, and a backyard.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM RESERVATION — Fourteen-year-old Roger Tinoco-Wheeler jumped at the chance to be back with friends twice a week at his Port Angeles middle school in January. A tutor there helped raise his math grade from an F to a B in just a few weeks, and shares his love of anime.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

But even with online learning plans, school districts around the country could face an “unprecedented historic academic regression” unless they do more, he said. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. — Cleveland native Toni McWilliams didn’t feel like she was putting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration to good use working as an administrative secretary for a middle school in her hometown. The job, which paid around $19,000, barely brought in enough money to support her two young daughters.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Although her family has moved many times, Johnson has up until now managed to maintain some stability in school for Mikaela. The teenager has attended just two schools: a Montessori-themed magnet school from preschool through sixth grade, and a middle school with neighborhood boundaries. “I Ashley Johnson, 35.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

He’s the interim principal at Hyalite Elementary School in Bozeman, where about 1 in 10 of his 500 students identify as English learners. Over the past decade, the number of unhoused students attending Montana schools more than tripled, reaching 4,700 as of last year. Now, a similar lot costs $2.5 million, Saunders said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The teenagers attend high schools and middle schools in the lowest-scoring school district in the state of Mississippi, West Bolivar Consolidated. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Some of these “grow your own” programs, like Reach’s, recruit school employees who don’t have college degrees or degrees in education, while others focus on retired professionals, military veterans , college students , and even K12 students , with some starting as young as middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. 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. Tyrone Colson is on the autism spectrum.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Schools in the Carroll County district haven’t offered classes in foreign languages for four or five years, Superintendent Billy Joe Ferguson said. And while struggling students still get extra academic help, such tutoring has been scaled back. Brown plans to study elementary education with a focus on middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town. Williams was “extraordinary,” Marcovitz said, deeply curious and capable of the kind of complex thinking not common in most high school freshmen. psychology class.

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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. Recently, all but one of the school’s upper floors gave way to classrooms as Haven has added middle-school grades. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. It is one of only a few school districts in the state that is requiring masks after the state Supreme Court put a hold on a mask mandate ban South Carolina legislators approved in the spring. I like [being back in school] a lot.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

The district will be holding an expanded summer school this year and is investing in mental health counselors and early literacy. . Katina Harris , middle school English teacher and president of the local teachers’ union. We have classroom tutors now. Orion Salazar, graduating eighth grader, Taos Middle School.

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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. The last day of the school year was followed by just a brief pause before classes started again for a wide range of programs financed by more than a billion dollars in federal funds under the American Rescue Plan.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

When I first met Pierre-Floyd, she told me McDonogh #35 had felt like “a baby HBCU,” the high school version of Howard University or the fictional Hillman College depicted on A Different World. Teachers valued her blackness, she said, and taught her the history of African and African-American strength. She tutored at two D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

He’d been a middle school and high school teacher for years, and he had students who came across words they’d never seen before and had no idea how to sound them out. That’s because human beings didn’t invent written language until relatively recently in human history, just a few thousand years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It also includes two highly competitive early college high schools, Bard Manhattan and Bard Queens , and two newer schools, Millennium Brooklyn and the NYC iSchool, both of which screen students based on middle school grades and test scores. Kids called in ‘Broken Tech,’ ” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

In Alexandria, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology scrapped its entrance exam and is conducting a “ holistic review ” of applicants based on their GPAs, essays and other factors. Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

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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. Editor’s note: This story is part of Map to the Middle Class , a Hechinger Report series exploring the middle-class jobs of the future and how to prepare young people for them. . Courtesy of the Askew family.

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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. Our school districts provided Chromebooks. We didn’t have wireless but used Covid funds to put that in and started advertising that we’re open for tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

He was glad he had something from home as he walked alone into North Middle School to start eighth grade in his new hometown of Sioux City, Iowa. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

Not long after the district consolidation legislation, Drew’s high school was closed. “It It felt as though we were losing part of our identity,” said Maria Thigpen, a math teacher at Drew Hunter Middle School. “It It just was a big change, was having to lose a school that was our tradition.”. Toney used new books.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history,” she said. Humayun draws inspiration from her parents, who belong to the Ahmadiyya Islamic reform group and are subject to discrimination in Pakistan, and from the refugees she tutors in English. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history.”.

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