The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

K-12 educators have one of the highest rates of burnout in the U.S. Which all begs the question: Should we expect the traditional education system to add responsibilities when we already know that it has not been able to keep up over the past few years? They are exhausted. Students are frustrated.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

I really don’t think that they’re growing,” said Brown, who’s also president of the National Tutoring Association. “I Teaching experts say that will mean slowing down to fill in knowledge gaps —detouring from lesson plans, adding extra periods for tutoring, and more. I think this is a lost school year for most kids.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Related: PROOF POINTS: Four lessons from post-pandemic tutoring research One fear we have is that too many education stakeholders have given up on school improvement because they don’t believe it’s possible. No school governance model is predominant. All these findings are consistent with a wide body of literature on what works.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded. We cannot wait.

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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. The study , “How Teachers Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI in Their Classrooms,” interviewed 248 K-12 teachers. That’s led to a frenetic rush to market educational tools as AI.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. There are currently 50 students, all ninth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. But Match is also trying some ideas that stand out from the now-familiar charter model, including a personalized, “high-dosage” tutoring model that it developed, which is geared to identifying the individual weaknesses of each student, as well as their strengths. Photo: Liz Willen.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In other cases, where academic struggles or bullying was to blame, tutoring and counseling helped re-engage students and keep them in class. is an alternative school that welcomes students who didn’t find the behavioral or academic support they needed in traditional schools. El Dorado High School in Chandler, Ariz.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation.

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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.

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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. I’m not at all a fan of online learning programs where the teacher serves more as a tutor than the actual teacher,” Friend said. Students checked in with their Yale tutor via video chat.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In a number of states, including Louisiana, adult education — which ranges from basic literacy to vocational training to high-school equivalency testing — is lumped with technical and community colleges, separate from the K-12 system. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

I had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing. Calkins also hopes that one-on-one tutoring models could help both teachers and parents handle the new burdens of remote learning by bringing in extra adults to help coach students. Some of these stories even win awards.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

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. Students in traditional schools didn’t have counselors and teachers pushing them into advanced math and science classes, she said.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Working with one of the program’s tutors also boosted his skills in math, a subject he doesn’t enjoy very much. The best after-school programs, advocates say, involve partnerships with community-based organizations and do not mimic the routine and structure of a traditional classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Compared to 2010, nearly 250,000 fewer children attend K-12 public schools in Puerto Rico today, a decline of 45 percent. She has lots of ideas: tutoring services, a library, a theater, a kitchen, case managers, social workers. When asked about her hopes for Goyco, Dominguez, the former Goyco student, sat back. “Ay!”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

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. Once again, the technology acts as a placeholder. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The teachers keep a close eye on this data and use it to develop small-group activities that make the material come to life — such as working at the virtual reality stations — or to identify the students who failed to master the lessons on their own and pull them out for extra tutoring. Right now, most do not. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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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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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. States across New England have adopted similar approaches at the K-12 level. Tutoring.”. Others take tests first given two or three weeks ago. Academic support.

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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. It’s an innovation that’s increasingly crucial to colleges, too.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Sweatshirts emblazoned with the 43 college choices that students would announce during the beloved pep-rally tradition known as “signing day” remained folded neatly beneath chairs. Tutors danced. One by one, they took their seats in the packed auditorium, as friends and family held aloft homemade signs of congratulations.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

While students have lots of time to play, they also learn traditional and rigorous academic material during the school year. Little nooks under the stairs give children cozy spaces to read or color and provide private areas for one-on-one tutoring. For more than 100 years, that’s what kindergarten was known for.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. During RISE’s first year of operation, Hudson had a staff of three, 12 volunteers, and a $25,000 budget: No one got paid. It proved to be an academic lifeline.

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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. But only 65 percent of special education students actually graduate on time, compared to 83 percent of all students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Teach to One’s aim is to use technology like a personal tutor, enabling struggling kids to catch up and advanced kids to surge ahead, improving everyone’s achievement. 12 of the study. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. But the research evidence hasn’t been terribly strong. See Figure 2 on p.

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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.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2017

Now that the debate on Question 2 has been decided for the foreseeable future — the ballot initiative was defeated, meaning that the current cap on charter schools will remain in place — it’s time to shift the focus to how we can improve opportunities for all Massachusetts students, whether they attend charters or traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. By mid-April, about 111,000 devices and 11,000 hotspots had been distributed, he said.

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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. What Chmielewski is discovering is a big deal for researchers in education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Her essay recounted overcoming obstacles: moving to New York City from the Dominican Republic at 12, learning English, navigating bullies in school and an abusive father at home. LOS ANGELES — Karoline Jimenez will never know exactly why her dream college turned her down. She was a student leader with top grades.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They’re members of City Year, a nonprofit partner of AmeriCorps that recruits college-age members from across the country to serve as tutors and mentors in high-poverty urban schools. At Webster the emphasis among each of the partner organizations is to establish individual relationships with students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2016

Dads provide a variety of services, from manual labor like building things students need, to providing emotional and personal support through tutoring and mentoring. Later, he joined WATCH D.O.G.S Dads of Great Students), a national program that helps dads and other male family members become active volunteers in their school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Emily Duggan demonstrates a dance move at the Amherst, NH, studio where she spends about 12 hours a week. She puts in about 12 hours a week at the studio, including classes and rehearsals with the dance team for weekend competitions. Finally, tutoring is available through four “skills coaches.”. Photo: Chris Berdik. EXETER, N.H.

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