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JULY 18, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Like hundreds of school districts, Aspire purchased an online tutoring service for the spring of 2021 to help these students. Students could log in to the tutoring service, called Paper , whenever they wanted, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and connect with a tutor to help with schoolwork in any subject.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

The world’s wealthiest families have known for centuries how effective tutoring is. Private tutors long educated the aristocracy and continue to supplement the education of kids whose families can afford it. Now, a national nonprofit has found a way to get tutoring to kids from poorer families, too. Census Bureau data.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

And in the past, administrators at some colleges have replaced their services with all-encompassing tutoring centers or third party organizations, Wynn Perdue adds. Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

Thanks to professor Robert Slavin’s research at Johns Hopkins University, we know that one-on-one tutoring using an evidence-based program is a quick, effective way to increase students’ literacy. As part of their coursework, the university students tutored struggling first and second grade readers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Berkeley researchers took advantage of the fact that ChatGPT, like humans, is erratic. On a short test afterwards, these adults improved 17 percent, compared to less than 12 percent learning gains for the adults who could see a different group of hints written by undergraduate math tutors. Now we have the opposite.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. Typically, humans have an inclination toward safety and the predictability of routine, avoiding the uncertainty that comes with new terrain.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2021

The term most often refers to school classrooms but may include any designated place of learning such as science laboratories, distance learning contexts, libraries, tutoring centers, teachers’ lounges, gymnasiums and non-formal learning spaces. Humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. These are hardwired into our brains.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. That experience showed me that high-dosage tutoring can't be the only tool we offer students after the disruptions of COVID-19.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

If I’m in need of a tutor, or an editor, or a professor’s help, is that not “receiving assistance from another person”? AI As On-Campus Tutor Perhaps one of the most potent examples I’ve heard is that challenging concepts often stop students in their tracks. Technologists have long dreamed of this vision of a “computer-assisted” tutor.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

But when you try new things and put them to a rigorous test in real classrooms, human behavior and students achievement are influenced by so many things that you cannot control, from struggles at home and poverty to health issues and psychological stress. The tutoring seemed to harm them. Source: IES , February 2024.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

For edtech firms, this partly means figuring out how to prevent their bottom line from being hurt, as students swap some edtech services with AI-powered DIY alternatives , like tutoring replacements. Primarily, for instance, it stresses that humans should be placed “firmly at the center” of AI-enabled edtech.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I was not able to homeschool, so a reading tutor and his iPad became his only access to education. Education is a human right, and public schools, open to all, are the guardians of this right. Vouchers gave my son social opportunities that he wouldn’t have had otherwise, along with tutors to help mitigate private education deficits.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 28, 2024

With the rise of AI, I’m thinking about what it means to be human? How is the human experience lifted up or pulled down by AI? Do you care if it’s a human or a bot? If your interaction with an AI bot meets your human needs, does it really matter if it’s not human? I want to be independent. I want to be alive.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Jake Price, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington AI can serve as a tutor, giving a student who is floundering with a problem immediate feedback. Min Sun, a University of Washington education professor, thinks students should use ChatGPT like a personal tutor.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

After starting with MATHia , an adaptive AI tutor that personalizes instruction for middle and high school students, Carnegie Learning branched out last year into AI-based tools for literacy, languages, tutoring and even professional learning for teachers and leaders. And grow, they have.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education. Some will keep tutoring, even if they are driven underground or are forced to take lower rates. We Need to Make Schools Human Again.

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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. Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses.

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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. Some students attend tutoring up to four days a week, at a cost of up to $1,000 a month.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them. Logue originally sought to conduct a simpler, cleaner study of only algebra, comparing the remedial prerequisite to the college course plus tutoring support.

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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

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. Because education is worth pursuing – it advances humanity. I walked into the class, eager and excited for the year to come.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 10, 2019

She found that the stars emphasized ongoing, intensive one-on-one tutoring of the people who worked for and with them, either in person or virtually, in the course of daily work. Being human means that you will screw up once in a while. Admit mistakes Everyone makes mistakes. Own your mistakes, but don’t let them own you.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Obviously, if low-income students can be tutored, all students can be tutored — and better-resourced communities will be quick to catch on to this. Obviously, if low-income students can be tutored, all students can be tutored — and better-resourced communities will be quick to catch on to this.

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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. Central offices needed more administrators to handle recruitment and human resources because they were hiring for so many new positions.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

It really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. And I think it really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. EdSurge: How does Qualcomm fit into the equation of advancing the education sector?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Intelligent tutoring systems in math provided hints when students got stuck, offered complete explanations and displayed step-by-step examples. Many students quickly lose motivation to learn on screens and need more human interaction. Students learn by doing. But some of the feedback was sophisticated.

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Tutoring Research Humanities Teaching 143

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. Tutoring companies are a booming business.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

I’ve noticed that doing a lot of practice problems during school hours is a big part of the algebra tutoring programs that have produced strong results for teens. The researchers did not theorize about why individual practice work is more important in math than in English.

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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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Edthena

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sophisticated AI tutors, built into simple and affordable platforms, can solve this challenge for those who have access to mobile devices. Every educator (and possibly every human being) can benefit from a great coach.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

His teacher referred him to Reading Quest , the nonprofit I run, where he could receive free, weekly personalized tutoring. Juan Pablo of Sante Fe, with his tutor Eli Feliciano, made great strides in reading during the spring and summer. As teachers, we all know the importance of warm, caring human interaction.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

These strategies have taken root in efforts by district leaders, often in partnership with university-based teacher education programs, to “grow-their-own” teachers or source tutors for more emergent interventions. The human capital needed to mitigate the risk to our own children and grandchildren is in our reach.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

LeSiege believed his prewritten hints and explanations were helping his students and Heffernan wondered if all students might benefit from having a virtual tutor hover over their shoulders during homework time. To build the crowdsourced hint system, the researchers paid 13 teachers to write hints.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. The problem is that this kind of frequent tutoring is very expensive and it’s impossible to hire enough tutors for the millions of American public school students who need help.

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