The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While it is good news that these results are lighting a fire under the education policy world and highlighting the particular need among students of color, the traditional approach to improving results — more math, more reading, more pressure — seems dubious at best. The pandemic created disastrous academic deficits for U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A student’s view of PS2 Pal, the AI tutor used in a learning experiment inside Harvard’s physics department. But students learned more than twice as much in less time when they used an AI tutor in their dorm compared with attending their usual physics class in person. Kestin doesn’t deliver traditional lectures.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

Should AI chatbots be used as tutors? That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. The book is called “ Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing). ”

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Traditional teaching uses class time to introduce students to concepts, which they then engage with on their own through homework. Medicine and nursing programs have been natural fits, but some in the humanities are experimenting too, such as in architecture and film.

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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. Kindergarten teachers at Sto-Rox transitioned from traditional assessments like DIBELS to EarlyBird at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Karolewics, who led the task force, cited research by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University that indicated traditional placement tests were doing a poor job of placing students in developmental course tracks. “It That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. NEW LONDON, Conn.

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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. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. A new Boston study suggests a possible path forward: allow only charter schools that can prove they are better than traditional public schools to expand. Walters, NBER Working Paper No. 25796 May 2019. Weekly Update.

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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. With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton’s Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action. A score of 3 is needed to pass.

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Human beings themselves are innately noisy and variable creatures. If each additional layer of technology we introduce adds to the variability of human data, we might well question how we fund, conduct, and interpret research involving humans and the use of technology. Change one element and the context changes. Stokes, D.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In school, academic and other cognitive tests are used to bring tutors, therapists and other academic supports to students who need them. I am not suggesting that students with special needs shouldn’t take traditional tests at all. After high school, all they get are standardized tests, which play a far different role.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. Addressing these graduation gaps will probably be expensive and involve more financial aid, tutoring and advising for students. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

“Because we are a coastal community prone to hurricanes, a coastal community prone to the arrival of literally dozens of thousands of children, immigrants,” Carvalho said, “we have naturally adapted to dealing with crises whether they are human crises, environmental crises or health crises.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

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 They’re behind in a traditional school setting. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after three years of learning this way, the Teach to One students in grades six through eight scored no better on New Jersey’s annual math tests than other Elizabeth students who had learned math the usual way with the whole class on the same topic at the same time. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. TAMU-Texarkana may be the smallest of the system’s 11 campuses, but it’s been growing steadily. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Other suggestions included setting aside more spots for low-income, first-generation and non-traditional students, ending legacy admissions ( something John Hopkins University just did ) or following the lead of the University of Texas, which guarantees admission to any public university in Texas to the state’s top-ranked students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

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. Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Typically I would do traditional lectures,” Dobrin said. In the traditional model, students need to pass a specific set of courses to graduate. 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. Tutoring.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Reardon, a sociologist, says the growing achievement gaps he has found stem from increasing income inequality in our society and the decisions of many rich parents to invest more in their kids, from private tutors to after-school programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Experts estimate that, if they receive proper support along the way, up to 90 percent of students with disabilities are capable of graduating high school with a traditional diploma, fully prepared to tackle college or a career. Leave this field empty if you're human: “I was being put in classes that were way too easy for me.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. Her parents hired a tutor to help her. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. For the next five years, Therapy Thursdays became a family tradition. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Projects include making animations, creating statistical databases of favorite sports teams and designing programs that can identify pneumonia in scans of human lungs. While Code Next’s classes don’t necessarily rely on traditional mathematics, some parents wonder what benefit comes to students for whom higher education may seem unobtainable.

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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. Yeah, way too many people,” agreed Cedar, also a sixth grader.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stories, feedback and support. For example, these tools could disrupt traditional ideologies in literary texts if they involved teachers in the design process.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

Rothschild serves as part teacher, part tutor for the program, visiting her 10 students’ homes for one-on-one classes each week. She designs individualized assignments that she hopes will engage students who’ve often struggled in traditional school settings. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity,” said Elissa Stein, a former PTA co-president at Brooklyn Tech, the Fort Greene specialized high school with more than 5,500 students, who now runs an advisory service for public school parents. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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. This is another way that human teachers are essential.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. Victor had made lots of progress in math since he began meeting twice a week with Carr at a Nashville-area Boys & Girls Club through an ad hoc, statewide tutoring initiative.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

We had a tutor. We didn’t have wireless but used Covid funds to put that in and started advertising that we’re open for tutoring. I came to this country at a very young age, but I still [had] very traditional Mexican parents. Our school districts provided Chromebooks. We had maybe 12 kids a day coming by October.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

For extra pay, Jennie teaches an additional chemistry class and has tutored at a local enrichment center; Mitch has chopped logs and sold firewood. Leave this field empty if you're human: At Arizona’s three public universities, enrollment in undergraduate and graduate teaching programs has dropped by nearly twenty per cent since 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

In the window of a Morton Catholic outreach center, a sign in both Spanish and English seeks recruits: “Hang live birds for processing in a humane manner. That hasn’t worked very well, in part because it’s too cumbersome, in part because some of the Hispanic parents speak dialects with little resemblance to traditional Spanish.

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