The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education. What Braham Area Schools in Minnesota needs to address its math gap are more certified math teachers, more math tutors, and smaller class sizes, said district leaders. Related: Widen your perspective.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Last year, when concern over the pandemic’s effects on education was at its peak, school districts turned to high-dose tutoring, a regular and intensive form of small-group tutoring. There’s a lot of evidence that high-dose tutoring improves reading and math performance, such as this study from Brown University.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

This can include investments in tutoring, summer programs and other interventions that help students catch up and regain their footing. By investing strategically in areas of greatest need, K-12 schools can make the most of COVID relief funds and support student success for years to come. Get started today.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Perhaps counterintuitively, Heid thinks that a new tutoring program they’re piloting in Polk County will help to ease some of that burden. In turning to tutoring services, the county is hardly unique. An estimated 40 percent of schools plan to use their federal relief dollars on tutoring.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Today, and for the last year or so, aspiring educators at American University are required to spend a minimum of 40 hours tutoring students in Washington, D.C., Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes. Check out last week’s post here.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Teaching aides are at least as effective in tutoring as licensed teachers, and far more effective than volunteer tutors, research shows Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. And both sets of paid professionals—aides and teachers—were far more effective than volunteer tutors. But it was based on very few studies.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

While the end of the pandemic is likely still months off, the White House has called for most K-8 schools to reopen by May, with in-person instruction at least one day a week, prolonging the possibility of distance learning. Grades K-5 in the district are in person, but middle and high schools are mostly hybrid.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2022

The station rotation model is a popular K-12 blended learning model that rotates students through a series of stations or learning activities. Peer Tutor Role. The station rotation model comprises three types of stations: a) teacher-led, b) online, and c) offline. These activities should give students a mental break (e.g.,

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they will stay in the classroom? Society has always been fascinated to learn about the motivations of famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians and how they came to their profession.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

A recent online meme had a striking message: “A year at an HBCU can undo a K-12 experience.”. They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. It has amplified HBCUs’ underfunding by putting new strains on education budgets.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For years, the global learning platform Kahoot has been growing its foothold in the K-12 space through acquisitions and add-ons to its popular quiz platform. It’s the latest example of an established K-12 education company moving into the early childhood space. And no, it’s not more quizzes. Can he join?”

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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. With few other choices, I acquiesced to the school’s ultimatum and am keeping my son there while I search for a better option once again — even as he gets closer to aging out of K-12 education. As of now, he has nowhere else to go.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Zoom was even free for K-12 schools for a time. Under pressure from the end of federal relief money and declining student enrollment, some K-12 school districts now have to make tech cuts. At the end of September, federal relief dollars for K-12 schools are scheduled to sunset , though the U.S. The result?

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Before transitioning to EdTech, Levine enjoyed 30 years working in various positions in K-12 and higher ed. Elliott Levine Director of Business Development Qualcomm Technologies If we look at K-12 education on a worldwide level, the majority of learners don't have internet access at home. No prototype.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

K-12 educators have one of the highest rates of burnout in the U.S. Indiana is offering families grants of up $1,000 to support after-school tutoring. Idaho started a $50 million program so that eligible families can buy education-related items, from online instructional materials to tutoring services. They are exhausted.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Many states are also cutting back on K-12 assessments and graduation requirements, despite the fact that they are critical to holding education systems accountable. Additional strategies adopted by Illinois and Louisiana include tutoring and interventions for struggling learners and professional development for educators.

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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. All these findings are consistent with a wide body of literature on what works.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

The AI applications range from tutors supporting foundational knowledge gaps to social connection facilitators designed for online learners who might otherwise feel isolated.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Federal and state policymakers have since suggested various solutions — from increasing access to tutoring to boosting teacher pay. So how can K-12 districts capitalize on this outsized potential role that principals can play in creating an atmosphere of excellence? Principals have the power to positively change a community.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year. Summer and after-school programming, tutoring, truancy intervention, teacher hiring and training, and improved data systems are all part of the solution.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. They calculate that weekly grading could be cut in half from six to three hours.

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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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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

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The number of Chinese students on F-1 visas in public K-12 rose from six students in 2006 to 1,008 students in 2016, according to the Student Exchange Visitor Program, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security. The total number of Chinese students in American K-12 schools, including private schools, is currently about 35,627.)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

During the three semesters when Lenoir-Rhyne students get instruction on teaching reading, they are also inside local elementary schools tutoring young children. Administrators said the tutoring — which was going on even before the lab opened — is part of why some schools in Hickory are seeing more success in reading.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. That same year, the school officially joined the NACA-inspired network as a K-6 charter school with a dual language immersion model.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The answer is three: “k,” “a,” and “t.” hours of auditory instruction in small group or tutoring sessions, but continued to make progress if visual displays of the letters were combined with the sounds. The company still recommends that teachers spend eight to 12 minutes a day on phonemic awareness through the end of first grade.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Some colleges offer tutoring centers to help students fill in their knowledge gaps. It’s the K-12 system that failed them.” “In the new scenario, everyone gets the same amount of instruction or developmental material, regardless if you are just one point below the cutoff or 10 points below the cutoff,” said Ran.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. During talks with a K-12 public charter school in Phoenix called Arizona State University Preparatory Academy, Khan thought he’d found a way to bring quality education to top students all over the world.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Reconstruction , a technology company focused on developing and teaching K-12 supplemental curriculum, assembles artists, mathematicians and entrepreneurs to provide supplemental curricula to empower Black students in their communities.

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