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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2021

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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. by Dominik Dresel Amazon’s efforts to expand its footprint in K-12 education through digital tools have largely fizzled. Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon.

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OPINION: As federal pandemic funds end, K-12 systems must look for bold changes

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School systems leveraged these funds to pay for high-dosage tutoring, early literacy support, leadership development, enhanced counseling, expanded student exposure to career pathways and other endeavors. The post OPINION: As federal pandemic funds end, K-12 systems must look for bold changes appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2024

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Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education. Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors?

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‘High-Dose’ Tutoring Boosts Student Scores. Will It Also Work Online?

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The good news is that this particular malady has a prescription for treatment: “high-dose” tutoring — a concentrated form of small-group study that meets multiple times per week. The trials showed that for low-income ninth and 10th graders, high-dose tutoring led to a “sizeable” improvement (0.18 Watered Down?

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Takeaways from research on tutoring to address coronavirus learning loss

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One proposal is to give them personal tutors. Normally, the idea of giving every poor child a professional tutor would seem too expensive but extreme circumstances have put big ideas on the table and policymakers are suggesting cheaper, if not exactly cheap, ways to do it. He calls it “high-dosage tutoring.”

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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But, while the results of research on what might work to catch kids up is not always clear-cut, many education experts point to tutoring as a tried-and-true method. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020.

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OPINION: Children will need summer tutors to make up for pandemic learning loss

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This year, it was 47 percent — a 68 percent increase that disproportionately impacted Black and Hispanic students, according to a report by Amplify , a national K-8 curriculum and assessment company that analyzed data from 400,000 students across 1,400 schools over the last two years.

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