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

ED Surge

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. But for some, the situation is still fraught.

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OPINION: We must close college counseling’s equity gap

The Hechinger Report

The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies require counselors to “use multicultural and social justice theories to promote equity and access for all students.”. and is the author of the book How to Tutor Your Own Child (2011). Does this include calling out flagrant abuse and discriminatory practices?

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The Youth Boxing Club that is Changing Lives in Chicago

Cult of Pedagogy

If you’re a kid on Chicago’s West Side, and I ask you to join a mentoring and tutoring program, your answer is probably going to be no. ” Academic and Behavioral Supports So what about academics? .” Ultimately, self-sufficiency is the goal. “We try to put as much of it onto the fighter as possible,” Cannon says.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

Recently, she started classes toward a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and learning at the University of Louisville. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue. A counselor arranged tutoring, keeping him motivated and “feeling that I am not doing this alone.”.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

As Rand earned community service hours tutoring children, she wondered if teaching was in her future. In an interview, Mississippi Superintendent of Education Carey Wright said many factors, including financial need, trouble recruiting teachers, school climate and leadership issues, often converge in districts that are underperforming.

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Facing legal threats, colleges back off race-based programs

The Hechinger Report

Yet the Latinx On The Rise Mentoring Program — which is organized by the NWA Hispanic Leadership Council in northwest Arkansas and counts the University of Arkansas as a partner and supporter — still matches Hispanic students with professionals. Targeted programs in and of themselves were not necessarily a problem, the letter said.