The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

What stands out for me is how readers remain interested in basic research into how kids learn, from reading to critical thinking to collaborating with peers. This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

Despite some improvements notably in fourth-grade math the national results were pockmarked by widening gaps in student performance and declines in reading scores, including the largest share of eighth graders who did not meet basic reading proficiency in the assessments history.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

What we cherish often has nothing to do with the biology or Bronze Age history we learned in the classroom. That has not deterred a trio of researchers from trying to quantify that influence. The researchers do not know why so many Asian males (more than 20 percent) sought out and built strong relationships with adults at school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. New research suggests that these schools might actually pay for themselves in long-term benefits to both students and the public as a whole. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But research shows that many of these ideas have had a spotty track record in the past and that schools will have to pay close attention to what’s worked—and what hasn’t—to maximize their odds for success with just about any strategy. Here’s a rundown of the most relevant research. Not all tutoring has been successful.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In January 2024, five researchers from Texas A&M University published their findings online in the journal Scientific Studies of Reading. hours of auditory instruction in small group or tutoring sessions, but continued to make progress if visual displays of the letters were combined with the sounds.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. The odds against these kids are daunting,’’ says Richard Kahlenberg , a senior fellow at The Century Foundation , a nonpartisan public research institute. asks Larkin, a Stanford University graduate who came to Match as a tutor and trained in its teacher residency program. “To

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Whether these executives are seeing dollar signs hovering over the heads of tykes or finally waking up to the wealth of research that exists on the importance of learning and development in the early years, there exists a kind of new energy in this corner of the education market. “I For starters, most 3-year-olds can’t read. Can he join?”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In a separate pandemic study of second and third graders in 100 school districts, Stanford University researchers found that although teachers had figured out how to teach reading remotely during the 2020-21 school year, students didn’t catch up. Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Sixty-one percent of student fathers drop out of college without degrees, compared to 48 percent of student mothers, the women’s policy research institute finds.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Wylie, who has trained in therapeutic crisis intervention, now works with kids in grades 6 to 12 who have been suspended from their home schools and are attending tutoring at the district’s Washington Irving Educational Center, where the diversion program is housed. Credit: Graphic courtesy of Schenectady City School District. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Schools hired additional counselors, interventionists (a fancy name for tutors), and aides, and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. By the spring of 2023, school districts had amassed more staff than at any time in history, the Edunomics Lab calculated.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Her parents spent about $3,500 on tutoring. This means the SAT and ACT are facing what could be the greatest challenge in their histories, which stretch back to the early 20 th century. for lower income ones in 2016, the last year for which the figures are available, according to the ACT’s own research.

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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. Should Robots Replace Teachers?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

But research has been mixed on whether it works. ST Math is produced by the nonprofit MIND Research Institute, but it’s quite expensive — around $15,000 per year, said Morial Principal Mark Burton. Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

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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. Andrisse has it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. ” Marina Koestler Ruben is a graduate research assistant at American University’s Center for Postsecondary Readiness and Success. and is the author of the book How to Tutor Your Own Child (2011).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2019

Attempts at addressing the wealth gap, which stems from the history of slavery, segregation, racism and discrimination, should be encouraged and lauded. Researchers, including those who work for the test companies, have known wealth is strongly correlated with outcomes on standardized tests for years. There are several reasons why.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In a recent high-profile case, NYU terminated a prolific researcher from an adjunct position after a student petition and a battle over learning standards; the crux of students’ anger and fear was that failure in his course effectively barred them from their academic and professional hopes. They are brilliant.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

and World History classes. There is a large and longstanding body of research measuring the positive impact of peers teaching peers. Researchers have found that learning from fellow students fosters deep understanding of the material and a positive attitude toward the subject matter. Not these two. The effect is twofold.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Powerful journalism and a constructive discussion on ways to improve reading instruction can focus attention on the latest research, on what works in classrooms and what lessons are worth sharing – all far more important than firing salvos.

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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. This does not balance out in favor of lower-income families,” said Steven Barnett, senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University.

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

At no point in the history of our country have we possessed such a quantity and quality of information, research-based insights and resources to complement the traditional classroom setting and motivate students, meet individual learning needs, and unlock the learning potential of all students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2024

From the first exploratory interviews I did on this topic, I was surprised to learn how deep the history of AI trying to teach went. champions, but couldn’t hack it as a tutor. Q: Why did you want to explore this question of how, and in what ways, AI can replace teachers? What didn’t it have?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Researchers are studying rapid changes in remedial education, from the elimination of placement exams to making remedial classes optional. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. Credit: Image provided by Kodie Bates Researchers pointed out problems with the discrepancy model even before its use became prevalent in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. Simply look up the test scores for rich kids and subtract the tests scores for poor kids.

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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 14, 2022

And when researchers asked American parents of school-age children how important it is that their children do well in school, most gave it the highest level of importance; in fact, on average, Black, Latinx and Asian parents ranked it as more important than white parents did. but lower achievement in South Korea.

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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 Research shows that teacher quality is the main in-school factor that impacts student achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Universities may be at the cutting edge of research into almost every other field, said Gordon Jones, founding dean of the Boise State University College of Innovation and Design. If history is a guide, the flashiest notions being workshopped in these places won’t get far.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

A model created by the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project , a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts, estimates that roughly 20 percent of the 110 million Americans who live in rented homes risk displacement by September 30 unless policymakers enact aggressive relief measures. But it often involves transportation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Research before the pandemic often showed poorer outcomes for students in virtual schools versus brick-and-mortar ones. 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. The research paints a grim picture.

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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. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers. Three years into the law, only 17 percent of the nation’s eligible students had actually received tutoring.

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