ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Elephants aren’t anomalies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

And the pandemic’s fits and starts in instruction are unprecedented in the history of American public education and have affected students unevenly. Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. Not all tutoring has been successful.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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. Will history repeat? A study on teaching critical thinking in science. Takeaways from research on tutoring to address coronavirus learning loss.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Here in my home state of Florida , we are arguing about how to teach history and whether we can acknowledge the gender identities of students. One high-profile and recent example comes from Teach for America, one of the nation’s largest preparers of teachers of color, which has recruited its smallest cohort in at least 15 years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. The oral lessons are popular because they are easy to teach and fun for students. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history. And that’s the source of the current debate.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Horace Tate, for example, featured in Vanessa Siddle Walker’s book, “The Lost Education of Horace Tate, ” was a hero who, beginning in the 1940s, aggressively recruited undergraduate students from historically Black colleges and universities to teach in rural Georgia.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JANUARY 23, 2025

Photo by Victoria Strelka_ph on Pexels.com One of the first blogs I wrote for the mentors of beginning teachers explored why mentees find changing teaching placements so hard. Be honest with yourself: Reflect on your own values and teaching preferences and areas where you may need to adapt.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. But Match is also trying some ideas that stand out from the now-familiar charter model, including a personalized, “high-dosage” tutoring model that it developed, which is geared to identifying the individual weaknesses of each student, as well as their strengths. Photo: Liz Willen.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

As a history teacher, I’ve found it an effective teaching-tool. Q-Chat Tutor: The Q-Chat function acts as a personal tutor for students, guiding them through study materials and helping reinforce learning through interaction. Students can use Q-Chat as a personal tutor. I’ve been using Edpuzzle for about a decade.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles. Watch this video to see what teaching and learning in UNIVERSE looks like! EdSurge: How did your teaching journey lead you to try UNIVERSE with your college students? Who’s going to teach them?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the founder and CEO of the tutoring platform Outschool points out, there’s quite a big difference between a 17-year-old user and a 3-year-old user. But families wanted their younger kids to have access to age-appropriate classes on the tutoring site, too. In that case, why not increase the lifespan of their product? Can he join?”

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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. And our neediest children will suffer the most.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Many brilliant, hard-working educators I work with simply don’t feel confident in their math skills, and thus their ability to teach math to others. Where we need to focus is on the mindsets and dispositions foundational to the teaching and learning of mathematics. Explore teaching strategies that promote positive math identities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

” Teaching aide Hannah Chancey faces the same problem in second grade classrooms at Rehobeth Elementary School in a small low-income community in southeastern Alabama, a state with reading scores near the bottom nationally. Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history.

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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. How to Continuously Improve Teaching.

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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

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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

So McWilliams decided to try teaching. “My My mom had always encouraged me to teach,” she said. 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. Mississippi is dealing with a dire teaching shortage.

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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. The district will also administer diagnostic testing before school starts to make grade placement and support decisions, reduce class sizes and teach in small groups to address gaps.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s a brighter world in which students subscribe to rather than enroll in college, learn languages in virtual reality foreign streetscapes with avatars for conversation partners, have their questions answered day or night by AI teaching assistants and control their own digital transcripts that record every life achievement.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

As I unlock my door, they ask, “So what are we teaching today?”. and World History classes. There is a large and longstanding body of research measuring the positive impact of peers teaching peers. But studies have also found that the benefit is mutual — that simply preparing to teach others deepens one’s own knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The six-episode podcast investigates the teaching of reading based on methods and strategies that cognitive scientists have shown are wrong – and harmful. This research suggests that all students – especially struggling readers – benefit from explicit instruction, including teaching children the relationship between letters and sounds.

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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. So, then I heard the story of Watson, an AI engine that quickly and easily dispatched Jeopardy! What didn’t it have?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

Unless you teach high school math, chemistry, or history and do so using a very traditional approach – it probably isn’t relevant, important, or useful. They are mind-numbing and you will find yourself wondering … how is any of this relevant, important, or useful to me?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. Since the inception of this country, the model of removing someone from society to teach them a lesson has not worked.” He had a passion for drawing that made art class his favorite, followed by math and history. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The history of early college high schools dates back to the 1960s with the founding of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a private school. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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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

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. She teaches at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., and is the author of the book How to Tutor Your Own Child (2011). Related: COLUMN: Two new documentaries showcase a long and winding road to college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

But when it comes to learning, he’s grown to love an environment much closer to home: surrounded by extended family members in a small, salmon-colored building just down the road from his house, where tutors and adults in his tribe have taught him since last fall. High school students can take a Native American history class.

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Becoming a History Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Teaching therefore presented itself as the natural answer to post-university next steps but, as I started my Initial Teacher Education course, I did not intend education to become a life-long career. If not, what impact is that having upon the unintentional teacher for whom teaching is not a vocation?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. But educators in Lindsay say that, while there’s more work on the front end, the district’s model actually makes teaching easier in the long run.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The district eventually found one retiree to teach science, in January. 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.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Wow, today is the first day of my fifth year of teaching! Today the students are doing a lot of orientation activities, so I’m just leading home room sessions and will start my US History classes later this week. I teach at a virtual school so my students and I are all doing school from our own homes all day.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Going to academic tutoring after school in China and India is just what one does if your parents can afford it: It’s what it takes to get into a top college. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools. but lower achievement in South Korea.

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