ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Pricila Cano Padron, of Dallas, Texas, remembers her “wake-up call” in middle school, when she helped tutor English-learning classmates in math and reading (she is bilingual). Each story — each person — is unique.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As a family, we wanted to spend as much time with her as possible throughout her recovery, which meant reconsidering my traditional elementaryschool schedule. Public school choice allows students like me to personalize education in order to achieve unique goals.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Three recent reports from our organization, Education Reform Now , highlight transformative strategies that high-poverty schools across three states — Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado — are using to drive stronger student outcomes. No school governance model is predominant.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In some districts, school leaders have forged relationships with community partners willing to buy alarm clocks for students to help them get up and out of their homes on time. In other cases, where academic struggles or bullying was to blame, tutoring and counseling helped re-engage students and keep them in class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Middle school students at the Innovation Academy experiment with building electrical circuits. The Innovation Academy workspace at Dysart Unified School District looked more like a tech startup’s headquarters than a classroom. Miranda Virgil, seventh-grade math teacher at Canyon Ridge Elementary School. SURPRISE, Ariz. —

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles. I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Locations of charter middle schools in Boston. Source: “Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools.

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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. They controlled for student demographics and achievement before high school. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. As a former tutor, I served PreK-12th grade students who learned the very histories I had to reconstruct my mind to accept years later. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” Some schools requested more advanced grade-level content that would be on the state test.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

At one table, the conversation turned to the growing pains of changing course from the traditional “sage on a stage” teaching model, where a teacher holds forth at the front of the classroom while students listen, to a student-focused, personalized model. “We Torres, on the other hand, said she misses a more traditional way of learning.

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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. Rebecca Newburn, middle school science teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2009 Rossana Rodríguez-Sánchez was a middle school theater teacher in Puerto Rico. The middle school she worked at in Puerto Rico — Alcides Figueroa — closed three years ago. She has lots of ideas: tutoring services, a library, a theater, a kitchen, case managers, social workers. It was investment.

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K-12 Middle School Tutoring Public School 101

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. — Cleveland native Toni McWilliams didn’t feel like she was putting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration to good use working as an administrative secretary for a middle school in her hometown. The job, which paid around $19,000, barely brought in enough money to support her two young daughters.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Too often, by the time these students reach high school, problems that began in the early grades have reached a point of no return; too many children are pushed out into the real world ill-prepared for what lies ahead. When Brad was in elementary school, he said he wanted to go to MIT and become an engineer. Read the series.

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Education Tutoring Elementary School High School 101

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

He’s the interim principal at Hyalite Elementary School in Bozeman, where about 1 in 10 of his 500 students identify as English learners. Saunders has already started the search for more land to build another elementary school, and possibly a second middle school. Now, a similar lot costs $2.5 million, Saunders said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

The secret to VLACS’ success may be that it does things differently from most virtual schools. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Some of these “grow your own” programs, like Reach’s, recruit school employees who don’t have college degrees or degrees in education, while others focus on retired professionals, military veterans , college students , and even K12 students , with some starting as young as middle school. We definitely have blinders on.

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Elementary School Tutoring High School Leadership 97

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

His high school placed him on a track to get an alternative diploma, which would have made it impossible for him to enroll in most colleges or apply for most jobs. high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

In the mandatory summer school study, which I described above, it was the opposite, with fifth graders benefiting much more than third graders. Unfortunately, there are few randomized control trials, the gold standard in research, for summer school. Slavin advocates fusing summer camp with intensive, daily tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Freedom Brown-Faulk (white mask) is hugging Alyvia Davis in front of West Middle School on April 28. READ THE STORY: As a district re-opens, one middle schooler returned to school and another remained home. READ THE STORY: Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation.

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Tutoring Elementary School Middle School High School 131

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It is one of only a few school districts in the state that is requiring masks after the state Supreme Court put a hold on a mask mandate ban South Carolina legislators approved in the spring. Karis Mazyck , principal of Blythewood Middle School. Ideally, we’d be doing extended day or have tutors.

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Oral History History High School Public School 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

The district will be holding an expanded summer school this year and is investing in mental health counselors and early literacy. . Katina Harris , middle school English teacher and president of the local teachers’ union. We have classroom tutors now. Orion Salazar, graduating eighth grader, Taos Middle School.

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Oral History History High School Public School 118

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

NEW YORK — Pink and purple posters adorn the third-floor hallway at University Neighborhood Middle School on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They’re advertising the after-school and summer programs the school runs with Henry Street Settlement , a community organization. Credit: Andre Joyles/New York Edge.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass student Ivyierra Washington into a traditional Garifuna dress. Martinez pointed the students toward a hut filled with traditional Garifuna clothes, and Endiah slinked behind as the other girls ran toward a rack of gingham dresses. He’s been talking since middle school.”. She tutored at two D.C. Stop Jalal.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It also includes two highly competitive early college high schools, Bard Manhattan and Bard Queens , and two newer schools, Millennium Brooklyn and the NYC iSchool, both of which screen students based on middle school grades and test scores. Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity.

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High School Leadership Tutoring Public School 69

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Schools and districts pay for extra services like teacher training or printed versions of their digital lessons. The nonprofit’s curriculum is also part of statewide tutoring programs in Tennessee and Texas. One such proposal is to bring data science into high school math curriculum while deemphasizing more-traditional math pathways.

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K-12 Middle School Tutoring Elementary School 102

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2016

In Mexico, what started as an experiment to improve 8 poor, rural public schools has now exploded into a national network of over 9,000 low-achieving elementary and middle schools. Taking agency for instructional delivery and ownership of learning is empowering and motivating for both the tutors and the tutees.

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Tutoring Professional Development Middle School Teaching 67

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2021

Many districts, even while under pressure to accelerate learning, are adding behavioral health programs as they reopen schools. In some cases, this means flipping the way students receive help from the traditional referral-based system to proactive outreach.

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High School K-12 Tutoring Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school. But it was the recession, and Jennie was soon laid off. They’ve been in Arizona since.

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K-12 Public School History Tutoring 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

At Match, the finish line won’t come till the end of May, when seniors reveal their college choices at a dramatic “signing day” ceremony before family members, counselors, tutors and nearly all the adults in their spacious and sunny school building. In its best form, the tutoring is tailored to what the student needs to be successful.

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Tutoring Charter School High School Sociology 103

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It was founded on the belief that these learners need more focused attention than they often receive in traditional public schools, and that they need to go back to basics to learn English. The newer schools are set up as public charter schools; the Ohio institutions will be funded primarily by a state voucher program.

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Education K-12 Charter School Middle School 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

He was glad he had something from home as he walked alone into North Middle School to start eighth grade in his new hometown of Sioux City, Iowa. That meant Cristian started his first day of school in America without a hug from his mom or a reassuring smile from his dad. Nor did he walk into school with his brother.

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Middle School Cultures High School Tutoring 108

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

We had a tutor. Our school districts provided Chromebooks. We didn’t have wireless but used Covid funds to put that in and started advertising that we’re open for tutoring. My eighth grader, he does not possess the ability to be at middle school with almost 40 kids in his classroom and focus.

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Oral History History High School Public School 117

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

Not long after the district consolidation legislation, Drew’s high school was closed. “It It felt as though we were losing part of our identity,” said Maria Thigpen, a math teacher at Drew Hunter Middle School. “It It just was a big change, was having to lose a school that was our tradition.”. Toney used new books.

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