The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Many claim that scientific research proves their wares work. “Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. Teachers didn’t have to change their existing lesson plans or textbooks to incorporate it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But research shows that many of these ideas have had a spotty track record in the past and that schools will have to pay close attention to what’s worked—and what hasn’t—to maximize their odds for success with just about any strategy. Here’s a rundown of the most relevant research. Not all tutoring has been successful.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When product developers at UPchieve, a nonprofit that connects students with free math tutoring powered by human volunteers, began evaluating AI tools to power a system for forecasting student performance, they expected to find serious problems with bias. Check out last week’s post here.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

I haven’t heard about many school districts announcing longer schedules yet but I was curious to learn what research evidence shows for students at schools that have extended the day or lengthened the year. (I’m Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising. What you do with the time matters.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. Related: Education research, condensed.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. I really don’t think that they’re growing,” said Brown, who’s also president of the National Tutoring Association. “I Read the stories. Ishmael Brown Jr.,

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

Teachers have to do countless tasks—including lesson planning, teaching, grading, mentoring, classroom management, as well as keeping up with technology and new pedagogical practices, monitoring progress, and other administrative work—all while keeping students’ social and emotional needs in mind.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2024

An AI instructional coach designed to help English teachers create lesson plans and project ideas. An AI tutor that helps middle and high schoolers become better writers. Others were meant to lessen teacher workload by helping with lesson planning or project ideas; several were designed to assist English language learners.

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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. Related: Research shows lower test scores for fourth graders who use tablets in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Lynn Fuchs, research professor at Vanderbilt University Covid exacerbated the nation’s problem with math achievement. There’s not as much research on math disorders or dyscalculia,” as there is on reading disabilities, said Karen Wilson, a clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in the assessment of children with learning differences. “A

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S. The Department of Education insisted upon high research standards for this report, “ A What Works Clearinghouse Rapid Evidence Review of Distance Learning Programs.” But if it could easily be used remotely, the researchers considered it.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Before, out-of-school suspension risked academic setback for students, says Dr. Robinson, since it was sometimes logistically difficult to arrange tutors. The researchers found that most of these solutions are short term, however, and will require more funding. Related: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Jake Price, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington AI can serve as a tutor, giving a student who is floundering with a problem immediate feedback. It can help a teacher plan math lessons, or write a variety of math problems geared toward different levels of instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

I tell our students, it’s like tutoring,” she says. “If If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.” I tell our students, it’s like tutoring. If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

A student at work with her tutor. Fellows are also prepared to develop, acquire, translate and use scientific evidence to design and implement high-quality lesson plans that will benefit students of all abilities. “We Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In a recent high-profile case, NYU terminated a prolific researcher from an adjunct position after a student petition and a battle over learning standards; the crux of students’ anger and fear was that failure in his course effectively barred them from their academic and professional hopes. They are brilliant.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

They may struggle to assess students’ abilities and needs, education researchers say, and turnover for special education teachers tends to be high. This is hard because the reality of teaching is that you’re on every hour of the day, you’re lesson-planning, you’re calling parents, you’re writing curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Tutors sometimes coordinate with classroom teachers to review foundational concepts so that a struggling student can better follow along in class. It’s a heavy lift for a teacher to figure out the essential prerequisite skills for each lesson and which grade-level units are less essential and can be cut.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When he wasn’t at football practice, he spent most evenings last year at the Rosedale Freedom Project, taking advantage of the program’s free, in-person tutoring. In some ways, it’s nice to just have something that you can pull off the shelf and use when it comes to curriculum, lesson plans, and resources,” said Arnett.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Yannier’s research experiment is part of a partnership between Forest Grove’s school district and Carnegie Mellon to see if high-tech ideas can improve teaching and learning. Sophisticated programs can adjust to each student’s needs and pace, like a personal tutor. Photo: Jill Barshay. Kids love them. Yannier might be onto something.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Our collective responsibilities range from curating extensive collections, providing instructional services and supporting research activities, to ensuring the accessibility and relevance of our digital and physical resources for our students and faculty members.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

All the research suggests that this shift would have the most immediate and profound impact on closing the achievement gap.” Some teachers had always incorporated phonics—intentionally sequenced lessons in how to sound out words from letters—but the district had not made it a requirement. They were told to implement them immediately.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Physics majors from the University of Virginia and Yale University work as tutors, providing individual attention to students via an online platform. Infusing lessons with music. In others, a teacher serves more as a “facilitator” of the online content, according to Matt Dolan, Founder and CEO of the Global Teaching Project.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Nobody knows the right path forward,” said Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education , a nonpartisan education research center in Seattle that has compiled an online database of coronavirus response plans provided by scores of districts across the country as a resource for other educators. The Richmond (Va.)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

Related: Customized math lessons could help students learn more, research says. One teacher is trained as a math specialist and they tutor the other teachers to help them construct lesson plans. The required math classes, according to Dixon can include college algebra and statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

It breaks up traditional courses into specific skills and abilities, called “competencies,” that students master through a personalized blend of traditional lesson plans, offline projects and real-world experiences. Finally, tutoring is available through four “skills coaches.”. Related: School choice on steroids.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Biden Administration has urged schools to use tutoring. Many schools have purchased an online version that gives students 24/7 access to tutors. Students never see their tutors or hear their voices. Low uptake The main problem is that on-demand tutoring relies on students to seek extra help. Very few do.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ever since the pandemic shut down schools almost three years ago, I’ve been writing about tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. I often get questions about research on tutoring. How effective is tutoring? Researchers call it “high-dosage” or “high-impact” tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The High School of Fashion Industries in New York City is one of thousands of schools around the country that are offering high-dosage tutoring to students. students are receiving this kind of intensive, daily tutoring, which can take place in person or virtually. So called “high-dosage tutoring” is more like the latter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

Schools report that students are receiving more tutoring sessions when they’re scheduled during the school day without competing instructional activities at the same time. Tutoring is by far the most effective way to help children catch up at school, according to rigorous research studies.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

What’s Next Edtech firms relying on teachers and tutors to support their business models often take a highly personalized approach to training. Startups like GoMyCode, out of Tunisia, or Kibo School, which works with learners in Africa, teach coding and tech skills, and source tutors directly from their own alumni pipelines.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

Students take an assessment at the beginning and end of summer to track their progress, but staff at the school are not planning to retain students based solely on their performance over the summer. The research really goes against retention,” Critell said. Related: How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, recently posted a video demo of him using a prototype of his organization’s chatbot Khanmigo, which has these features, to tutor his teenage son. Even so, the video went viral and sparked debate about whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

(Though they didnt rise to the threshold of my 10 most read stories, I would also recommend these three stories about troubles with tutoring , something called subitizing and the puzzle of chronic absenteeism.) Thank you to everyone who read and commented about my weekly stories about education data and research.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As Rand earned community service hours tutoring children, she wondered if teaching was in her future. When her English professor assigned a research paper, “the writing lab was my best friend,” she said. No one had left lesson plans for their substitute teacher, so most of the time, her class just filled out worksheets.

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