The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Bugging kids about homework, after asking the inevitable “How did school go today?”. In suburban Chicago, even as schools reopened virtually, some districts are figuring out ways to supervise online learning in schools, for a price. If you have friends who you can form pods with, DO IT!”.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math. To do this well, they often need small-group or one-on-one teaching, which is non-existent in many schools’ math instruction.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism. Those teachers were largely white and from public schools, introducing limitations. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

classrooms but a study finds that students aren’t using much of the pricey software that schools buy (Photo by Jackie Mader). is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. Among the top one were Varsity Tutors, LearnZillion, Wikipedia, Brainingcamp, Google Classroom and TED-Ed. BrightBytes Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Another analysis shows that this drop accounts for nearly a third of the total reduction in public school enrollment across 33 states. Some well-to-do families hire tutors — sometimes paying a teacher’s salary — to work alongside a child who is attending remote kindergarten. Other families are skipping the school year entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sometimes a single class, such as 11th grade “algebra II” or 12th grade English, can earn a student credit toward both high school and college. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. 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. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale. The authors of the report called for more oversight of virtual and blended learning schools, and urged policymakers to slow or stop their growth until more research is done.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. But many charter schools get about the same results and sometimes charter schools do worse.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Many had seen their schooling interrupted by the chaos back home; some had experienced gang violence or human trafficking. The New Orleans public school system is unlike any other in America. All but a few of the 80 public schools operate as charters, which private organizations run using public funds.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But her success was short-lived: She ended up back at Durham Public Schools in eighth grade. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Anyone with an adult child with special needs knows how hard they can fall after they leave high school and no longer have that safety net. In school, academic and other cognitive tests are used to bring tutors, therapists and other academic supports to students who need them. People with special needs are normal.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people employed in public schools dropped from almost 8.1 million since then, but that still leaves schools short around 360,000 positions. The school system in Moss Point, a small town near the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, has increased wages to entice more applicants.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: A few weeks ago, we took a look at generative AI’s potential to change teaching and learning on college campuses around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. When Lou Allen started the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut in 2005, he didn’t woo the state’s top students. Related: A solution as obvious as it is rare: Making high school graduates ready for college. NEW LONDON, Conn.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

That rapid growth, however, threatens the reputation — and sustainability — of its public schools. The new Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont., After winter break, the school enrolled enough new kindergartners to require the hiring of a fifth kindergarten teacher. opened in fall 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2018

To help those students, Quitman County has joined other rural districts to form the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstances. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Only 3 percent of parents, in another Rand survey conducted this July , said they would send their youngest school-age child to full-time virtual school if the pandemic were over. “We That missing piece of human interaction.”. Heather Schwartz, co-author of Rand surveys on virtual learning. “We

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Inexperienced teachers, with three years’ experience or less, are clustered in one-third of New Orleans’ schools — most of which have student bodies that are 90 percent black and 90 percent economically disadvantaged. Molière also grew up in the New Orleans area and was educated in its public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: 1. Online Advanced Placement courses for rural, low-income school districts. Physics majors from the University of Virginia and Yale University work as tutors, providing individual attention to students via an online platform. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. For extra pay, Jennie teaches an additional chemistry class and has tutored at a local enrichment center; Mitch has chopped logs and sold firewood. Maybe teaching.”. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

million, or roughly 13 percent, of all public school students receive such services. Too often, by the time these students reach high school, problems that began in the early grades have reached a point of no return; too many children are pushed out into the real world ill-prepared for what lies ahead. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Several parents with children in low-performing schools view a child’s academic struggles as an individual responsibility — their child’s fault, or their own — but access to and understanding of school data can help them identify broader problems. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

For each student who drops out, high schools earn a zero. Leave this field empty if you're human: In the past, some have viewed Louisiana’s accountability incentives with caution, fearing schools may sit back, knowing that they can push low-performing students into a high-school equivalency program and earn 25 points. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

million public school children enrolled in special education in the United States, 13 percent of all public school students. Instead, her high school placed her in remedial courses for math and English, where she just fell further behind. Her parents hired a tutor to help her. There are 6.6 Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

But last summer, Cousins’ mother-in-law told her about Threshold, a program developed by a Maine charter school aimed specifically at students who’ve dropped out, and she enrolled at age 18. Rothschild serves as part teacher, part tutor for the program, visiting her 10 students’ homes for one-on-one classes each week. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

Founded in 1884 to serve former slaves, the college is in Little Rock’s Central High historic district, named for the nearby public school that was forcibly integrated by federal troops and made famous by the iconic photo of jeering whites hurling vitriol at black children. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. Columbus School, Carteret, N.J

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. public schools say they’re offering high-dosage tutoring and more than one out of 10 students (11 percent) are receiving it this 2023-24 school year. Here are four lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ever since the pandemic shut down schools almost three years ago, I’ve been writing about tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. I often get questions about research on tutoring. How effective is tutoring? How many schools are doing it? High-dosage tutoring is more like the latter.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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. The retired public school teacher stands out in a burnt orange sweater, her curly hair adorned with a soft brown beret. Its not their fault, she says, or their parents or even the schools fault.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

They’re also more likely to attend poorly resourced segregated public schools that lack the tough curriculum needed to prepare them for college-level STEM courses. She discovered that Rensselaer offers plenty of extra help and now regularly attends tutoring sessions. It was a culture shock.”. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

She helped the students design the survey questions and trained them in interview methodology and the ethics involved in research on human subjects. Trevon Mitchell, an incoming sophomore at Cleveland High School in Seattle, Washington, participated as a student representative on Seattle Public Schools’ reopening committees.

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