The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

But many of them aren’t from humans. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is being used to shoot off these seemingly personal appeals and deliver pre-written information through chatbots and text personas meant to mimic human banter. AI grading “does it better, more quickly and probably making fewer errors than humans.”

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As the public school system has teetered, already many parents across the country have turned to religious or private schools , or created smaller learning pods, hired private tutors or are considering play and learning programs that in some cases can cost close to $3,000 a month. First-day jitters. Waiting for buses.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

The school is one of a number of colleges and universities that are standing out for their humane approaches to the coronavirus. She needs the laptop for her job as an online math tutor, a much-needed source of revenue for all of them, and to finish the semester and transfer to a four-year college in the fall. Photo by Rashad Paige.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

Never mind forcing your 16-year-old to build homes in Costa Rica, hiring a tutor for $500 an hour, or urging your child to join another traveling soccer team. And just like soliciting a donation for a new library, such a system would improve the college experience for everyone. So how to restore integrity to the process?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Community-based organizations, libraries, adult education programs, and community colleges across our Beacons are working together to incorporate technology to support their learners. Chicago Public Library (CPL) used human-centered design to think about how to teach the digital skills they knew their adult patrons needed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

In a windowless room in the library, first- and second-graders experiment with a strange teaching device that’s half computer and half wooden play table. She’s a postdoctoral student at nearby Carnegie Mellon University in a new field called “Human-Computer Interaction.” Because it …”. Kids love them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We heard that [college admissions] is a game they couldn’t play, it wasn’t real, they were at a disadvantage” if they weren’t athletes or couldn’t afford essay coaching, SAT tutors and private counselors. Related: Debt without degree, the human cost of debt that becomes purgatory.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

It gets people’s attention anytime you say, ‘Free,’ ” said Jimmy Kidd, the director of admissions, who spoke between in-person student orientation sessions in the library of the school’s downtown Louisville campus in late June. A counselor arranged tutoring, keeping him motivated and “feeling that I am not doing this alone.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. While the tutoring and on-the-run support that have replaced it may smooth their paths, at least one university president wonders whether future engineers will sufficiently master the calculus they need. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: If students are still failing at the end of the semester, many won’t receive an F, but instead a grade of “not proficient” or NP. Junior Alex DesRuisseaux and senior Jesus Garcia work in the library of the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Tutoring.”. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

As he finishes his first year there with volunteer tutors from Montana State University and a part-time teacher’s aide on loan from the district’s central office, Dickerson this spring started sorting through resumes to hire Bozeman’s first teacher for English learners. Credit: Neal Morton/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. Early literacy instruction was hurt so much by the pandemic that schools need to think beyond recovery, said Susan Lambert, chief academic officer of elementary humanities at Amplify Education Inc.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Mostly it’s a way for them to do a kind of teaching they can’t do at their regular jobs,” explains Zena Hitz, founder of the Catherine Project and a tutor (faculty member) at St. I think the arts and humanities gives us a site for doing all of those things.” Maybe the humanities will be just fine. A little luxurious.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. D to her pupils, sits at a table with one of the young students she tutors as they clap and sing as part of their lesson. Perez started tutoring students around the time the COVID-19 vaccine made it safe to meet in-person. BROWNSVILLE, Texas Its nearly 5 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

A human would likely never spot such complex patterns. The human element. But he said the reality is more students than ever are graduating in the toughest majors, thanks to better support, like tutoring. There’s another element that the analytics can’t measure — human ambition and the drive of an individual student to succeed.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2025

What resources should be offered (in places like the campus library)? A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. Young Companies and technologists are rushing to apply the latest AI chatbots to fulfill the long-held dream of building a personalized digital tutor. What Brings Gen Z to the Library?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

She used it to buy books and computers for the library, white boards and printers for classrooms, to beef up a robotics program and build a multipurpose sports court for her students. Instead, Ramos said he was looking at more limited approaches to decentralization, around some human resource and procurement functions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Earlier this year, he signed a law barring libraries from banning books based on ideology; book bans nationwide have largely targeted LGTBQ+-themed books. Educating Early Read comprehensive coverage of young learners with Hechinger’s biweekly Early Childhood newsletter.

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