ED Surge

MAY 12, 2022

Over the last several months, EdSurge has interviewed dozens of K-12 teachers who work at least one other job outside of the classroom. Another tutors. Her workload—and the mental, psychological and financial burden they carried—had become untenable. I amaze myself,” she says, sounding truly amazed. “I Lindsey Spencer.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Play is not divorced of learning,” said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, an author, professor of psychology at Temple University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who has studied child development and the role of play in learning for years. “It It is the natural way in which we learn.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Since making that decision, Burns has changed course and is now pursuing a high school equivalency degree, with tutoring help from the Durham Literacy Center. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. She picked working at a McDonald’s.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Another 2015 study found that non-monetary rewards were useful in getting young kids to attend an after-school tutoring program. There’s also a psychological critique of rewards, with many arguing that they undermine a child’s ability to develop his or her internal motivation to do the right thing.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She tutored other kids from public housing. y Christmas, 12 percent of Sci Academy’s first graduates had either dropped out or transferred to a community college. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. The air smelled familiar.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Sophisticated programs can adjust to each student’s needs and pace, like a personal tutor. Ken Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University professor of human-computer interaction and psychology. Advocates like the way that educational software can alert kids to their mistakes right away and help to fix them more quickly. Kids love them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2018

Cruz along with several of his peers have made use of the college’s tutors to keep up. The program doesn’t just test students’ math skills, it also tests their physical and psychological fitness for the job. Cruz said some of the wind turbine work is similar to servicing pump units for the oil company.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

At Haven, a decade-old South Bronx charter school serving roughly 450 kids in pre-K through seventh grade, moods are characterized by colors. Until a decade ago, however, the group’s education experience was limited to after-school tutoring and a Head Start program in Puerto Rico.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Could it be that all this professional tutoring is actually enabling [upper middle class] students to perform better on their schoolwork.” Dear editor, Do you think this rise in grades has something to do with all the “tutoring” that is going on with upper middle class families? Have something to say? August 23, 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Even with plentiful low-skill jobs and with some immigrants running small businesses or finding better paid jobs as translators or tutors, poverty is still a reality among recent arrivals. Gitu Gobana, 12, moved to the U.S. Her mother is an English tutor working for the school district and her father works at Tyson.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In Nevada, in fact, parents can spend state education dollars any way they please — on private, public, online, part-time and full-time schools, on tutoring and extra books — through education savings accounts, which an advocate for them calls “the purest form of educational freedom.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Hechinger’s Sarah Butrymowicz created a pair of searchable databases to see which colleges and K-12 schools do not have to follow the Biden administration, but the list can change — 1,700 schools were added during the week of the Moms for Liberty summit — so make note of the time stamp.

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