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.

Tutoring 143

Tutoring High School Charter School Research 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Horace Tate is no relic of history; Black principals are still fighting that fight today. We provided statewide access to training and tutoring for assessments in partnership with our teacher advocacy organizations and focused on building community among Black educators.

Education 119

Education Pedagogy Tutoring Advocacy 119

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history. They found that struggling readers, ages 4 to 6, no longer benefited after 10.2

Tutoring 145

Tutoring K-12 Research Teaching 145

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? Takeaways from research on tutoring to address coronavirus learning loss. How the last recession affected higher education.

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Research Tutoring Education Critical Thinking 104

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.

Tutoring 133

Tutoring Charter School Middle School American History 133

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?

Humanities 68

Humanities Tutoring History Teaching 68

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.

Tutoring 114

Tutoring Economics Public School Government 114

ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles. This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it! This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it! Technology is on a course of its own.

Tutoring 120

Tutoring Project-Based Learning Tradition History 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

Many found a way to continue their studies through informal tutoring centers, but those too have come under increased scrutiny as the government continues to crack down on women and girls’ access to education. I walked into the class, eager and excited for the year to come. Little did I know that class would change my life.

Tutoring 108

Tutoring World History Humanities Economics 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education. This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education. Paying for the staff and equipment required to keep the virus at bay is also a huge obstacle, especially for cash-starved districts in low-income communities.

Public School 112

Public School Tutoring Economics History 112

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),

History 121

History Teaching Controversial Topics Tutoring 121

Becoming a History Teacher

JANUARY 7, 2023

I think of my own A Level history teacher whose commitment extended to coming into school at 7am for two whole months to teach us before heading off to complete jury service. Dispositions During the PGCE at The University of Nottingham we talk to our beginning teachers about the need to develop teacher dispositions (Osgusthorpe, 2012).

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Tutoring History Teaching Education 52

Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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. Wow, today is the first day of my fifth year of teaching! Here’s what the first day looks like for me: Yep, that’s my classroom!

Tutoring 52

Tutoring History Teaching Lesson Plan 52

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. Still, the challenges we face in our public education system rank right up there with war in Ukraine in the existential crises keeping me up at night.

Education 141

Education Tutoring Cultures Leadership 141

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. This doesn’t necessarily require smaller class sizes; small groups could be advisory periods, club activities or tutoring sessions during the school day. Kraft says that’s not his intention.

Research 135

Research Economics High School Tutoring 135

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?”

EdTech 145

EdTech K-12 Tutoring Research 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

For example, at Dominican, we created “exit tickets” that students submit after class, which are used to refine subsequent tutoring sessions. Last year, we had our largest recruitment class and one of the highest retention rates in our 120-year history. Our numbers have remained steady during the pandemic. And we are proud that U.S.

Tradition 130

Tradition Tutoring High School Cultures 130

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. He had a passion for drawing that made art class his favorite, followed by math and history. As a history buff, he liked sharing what he already knew from videos he had watched on his own. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year.

Tutoring 86

Tutoring Middle School Economics High School 86

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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Tutoring Government Tradition History 71

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.

EdTech 70

EdTech K-12 Tutoring History 70

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

And it is threatening the first-year college experiences that are so vital to student achievement — a year without orientation, in-person academic tutoring, learning communities and on-campus activities could easily threaten a student’s ability to acclimate to college life.

K-12 137

K-12 Tutoring Economics History 137

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.

Tutoring 61

Tutoring American History Cultures Middle School 61

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A reading teacher from New Mexico – where reading scores are among the lowest in the country – wrote to say that Hanford’s reporting supports the overwhelming need to teach reading using phonics that she sees every day at the nonprofit literacy support center she runs, which tutors 360 children a week and has a waiting list of more than 100.

Elementary School 88

Elementary School Tutoring History Teaching 88

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. At the same time, we’re also taking away science and history instruction where kids can develop knowledge and where they can put comprehension strategies into practice. On Saturdays, her students can get one-on-one tutoring.

Elementary School 144

Elementary School Library Middle School Tutoring 144

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. … In Jeffco, we say keep the main thing the main thing – and that is student learning.

Tutoring 88

Tutoring Tradition History Teaching 88

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. We have a long, nasty history of assessing children to sort and characterize.”. Other families are skipping the school year entirely.

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Elementary School Charter School Public School 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

The low cost and logistics of Reach’s program suddenly made it possible: Her district agreed to her spending 15 hours of her work week in the classroom, mentoring or tutoring students. It’s the night of the final class of her course, “Children with Special Needs: History and Practice.”

Elementary School 76

Elementary School Tutoring Leadership High School 76

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. 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. She teaches at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.,

Social Justice 109

Social Justice Tutoring Cultures Economics 109

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. “I was just a secretary fighting to be a teacher,” she said. It proved to be an academic lifeline. McWilliams said she felt convinced that God was answering her prayers.

Tutoring 72

Tutoring Civics High School Teaching 72

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. Richer families can afford more tutoring, test prep and enrichment activities. There are several reasons why.

Tutoring 105

Tutoring Government History Research 105

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.

Charter School 93

Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 93

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. So we have a history of being ‘okay’…(even) when we are in fact not okay or do require assistance.”

Psychology 143

Psychology Elementary School Humanities High School 143

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.

Tutoring 106

Tutoring Elementary School Social Studies Middle School 106

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.

Tutoring 48

Tutoring Education Education Policy Economics 48

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. I have had groups of eighth graders that go to the high school for math and English and then they just come back to me for their subject matter in history as science,” she said.

High School 124

High School Tradition History Tutoring 124

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

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. Researchers are studying how well companion corequisite courses and tutoring can help get these struggling students up to speed.

Tutoring 73

Tutoring High School Research History 73

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

If history is a guide, the flashiest notions being workshopped in these places won’t get far. The university is working next on developing virtual tutors, which it says could be viable in two to five years. Most academic transcripts omit work or military histories, internships, apprenticeships and other relevant experience.

Archaeology 97

Archaeology Tutoring History Teaching 97