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OPINION: Let’s change our approach to traditionally overlooked students

The Hechinger Report

To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. For example, at Dominican, we created “exit tickets” that students submit after class, which are used to refine subsequent tutoring sessions.

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There Is An Elephant in the Classroom and It Taught Me About My Black History.

ED Surge

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. So many people are unable to conceptualize a full picture of Black history until adulthood.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

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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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

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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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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As final year of college planning unfolds at Match: ‘What’s it gonna take?’

The Hechinger Report

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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Research on early college high schools indicates they may pay for themselves in the long run

The Hechinger Report

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.