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

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History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107

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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Tutoring Charter School Middle School Advocacy 141

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 120

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.

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Public School Tutoring Economics History 131

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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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 141

Education Tutoring Pedagogy Advocacy 141

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 141

Tutoring Economics Public School High School 141

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.

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Tradition Tutoring High School Cultures 140

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

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Tutoring K-12 Research Teaching 145

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 142

Education Tutoring Cultures Leadership 142

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

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.

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K-12 Tutoring Economics History 145

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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Research High School Archiving Tutoring 140

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country. I am a primary resource when it comes to American History and civil rights, particularly in education. He is the author of “ Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer. ”.

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American History K-12 Civics History 102

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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Middle School Tutoring History Teaching 114

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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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 137

Becoming a History Teacher

JANUARY 23, 2025

Seek support: Connect with your peers and tutor/mentors to develop a support network to help you during this transition period. Embrace the learning opportunity: View the transition as a chance to grow professionally and expand your understanding of teaching and learning.

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Tutoring Teaching Cultures Education 58

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.

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Tutoring Project-Based Learning Tradition Teaching 123

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.

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Research High School Economics Tutoring 142

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.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Tutoring Middle School Tradition 111

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. Even though she had good grades and was a two-sport athlete, “of the whole college process, the testing was the hardest,” Tomasulo said.

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Tutoring High School Education Policy Research 110

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.

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Tutoring Middle School High School Economics 114

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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Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 106

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.

Elementary School 144

Elementary School Tutoring Charter School Public School 144

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.

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Elementary School Library Middle School Tutoring 145

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.

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Tutoring Civics High School Teaching 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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High School Research Tradition Tutoring 145

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. I assumed we’d work around it, or better yet, incorporate it in meaningful ways.

Teaching 144

Teaching Education Humanities Tutoring 144

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 100

Humanities Tutoring History High School 100

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 102

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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Tutoring American History Cultures Middle School 83

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 111

Social Justice Tutoring Cultures Leadership 111

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.

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Tutoring Tradition History High School 88

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.

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Tutoring Government History Research 109

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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High School Tutoring Charter School Private School 88

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

and World History classes. Breakthrough goes further, intensively mentoring most of its students through high school, supporting them with organizational skills, academic tutoring, and college preparation. Within a single academic year, these high school tutors show, on average, two years of reading gains. Not these two.

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Tutoring Leadership Middle School World History 86