The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

You can stay after school. You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. The so-called “ Match Corps’’ tutors commit to a year of service and are given a living allowance of $15,000 and subsidized housing. Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

Students with access to college counselors and test tutors (read: wealthier students) know this, and many are still using ACT and SAT exams to stand out. Students with access to test tutors are aware that the eye of the admissions needle has narrowed, and they are being coached to use their test scores to thread it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. Most parachute kids attend private schools, which can range from swank boarding schools like Phillips Andover, to small private day schools. A small, but growing, number attend public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We are forced to send our children to schools where these faulty products and methods are imposed on them. When our children do not learn, we are forced to seek alternative solutions, but few of us can afford tutors or private schools with curriculums seated in the science of reading, and fewer still can afford to homeschool.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As the public school system has teetered, already many parents across the country have turned to religious or private schools , or created smaller learning pods, hired private tutors or are considering play and learning programs that in some cases can cost close to $3,000 a month.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Parents with means have always known that classroom learning isn’t enough, and have ensured their children have access to enrichment programs, mentors, internships, technological tools and private tutors. They already know how to continue learning outside of school. Millions of children will not be fine.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. Tutoring and test-prep companies such as Signet Education report record business, the company’s president and chief operating officer said in an interview.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kenna Kast, grandmother of three, wants to send her grandson Jacob to a private school that serves autistic students, but cannot afford it. Kast says she would love to enroll him at Old Dominion, but the school does not have a special-education program. Most private schools in the state don’t. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The history of early college high schools dates back to the 1960s with the founding of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a private school. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report. ).

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

But she suspected that a private school or public school outside of Kansas might work well for her. But then she started going to office hours and the tutoring center, which bolstered her confidence. “I really did not know where I stood academically,” she says. She did struggle early on in a macroeconomics course.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

A student at work with her tutor. I witnessed this need firsthand during my 20-year tenure as Maryland’s state superintendent of schools. Fellows often go on to assume key leadership roles in public and private schools. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Meanwhile, some high-performing themed schools remain out of reach to many low-income students, due to screenings — such as tests or auditions — that favor families who can afford private lessons and tutors.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

The dramatic reveal has become an increasingly common ritual at charter schools where college acceptance is both the goal and part of the culture. Tutors danced. Since 2004, the school says, almost 90 percent of its graduates have gone on to a four-year college. dean of students Robert Hendricks exclaimed. Teachers clapped.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

In some school districts, a specific diagnosis — and even the first-hand testimony of a neuropsychologist — can be crucial for accessing the best services. Those can range from occupational and speech therapy to small group time with a teacher to a publicly funded spot in a specialized private school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Tuition, fees, and room and board went up by 34 percent at public colleges and universities between the 2005-2006 and 2015-2016 school years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. At nonprofit private schools, the increase was 26 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2019

s Most Elite Private School.” Those in favor of getting rid of these tests believe students with money for tutoring have a clear advantage, and a new so-called adversity index introduced by the College Board, which administers the SAT, simply won’t go far enough in putting student scores in the context of their socioeconomic status.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

A week before the case was set to go to court, the district agreed to settle and pay for Nelson to finish up his high school career at a private school 20 miles away for students with learning disabilities. To Nelson’s delight, once he started there, his grades dropped as he was finally challenged in school. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Meifeng Jiang, a Chinese immigrant whose daughter is applying to Boston’s exam schools. Zaphiris’ daughter, who is enrolled in a private school, is applying to Boston exam schools, ranking Boston Latin School first. “I just want her to succeed, to have more opportunities.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

For extra pay, Jennie teaches an additional chemistry class and has tutored at a local enrichment center; Mitch has chopped logs and sold firewood. Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

If diagnosis and help still remain elusive, they can pay for private neuropsychological exams , which can cost thousands of dollars. They also can, and often do, circumvent the public system entirely by hiring private reading tutors or sending their children to private schools focused on reading remediation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Williams was “extraordinary,” Marcovitz said, deeply curious and capable of the kind of complex thinking not common in most high school freshmen. She trawled the dictionary for new words and spent school bus rides proofreading friends’ papers. She tutored other kids from public housing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2018

She said she plans on having just one child so if she has to pay for her son to get tutoring or go to a private school, she can. “I hope he doesn’t have the difficulties I had in school,” she said. Her little boy is 2, and she is already thinking about where he’ll go to kindergarten.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

The appeal of this idea can be backed up with data — a 2023 poll asked this question: School choice gives parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs. It’s certainly true for charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math. Catholic school students tend to be wealthier; their families can afford private school tuition. Many of them are from wealthier families who can afford tutors, or attend well-resourced schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

So-called education reformers trumpeted the success of the city’s post-Katrina experiment that replaced nearly all of the locally controlled public schools with charter schools but it was controversial. The charter schools were run by private organizations, similar to private schools, but publicly financed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

In the last few years, three of the city’s most selective public high schools — Brooklyn Technical, Bard College and Townshend Harris — have sent teachers to learn about twice exceptionality from employees of the Quad Preparatory School, a six-year-old private school that focuses on educating these students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of the remaining white families send their children to a private school that opened more than 50 years ago to help white children avoid racial integration. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

She’d never taken the ACT, and she hadn’t studied math since Marilyn Buck tutored her inside the prison more than two decades earlier. The new gig would eventually allow her to take free classes at the prestigious private school, but working double shifts meant Metz could no longer fit in regular courses at Southern.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We have classroom tutors now. I’m going to keep her at her private school. One of the teachers at his school passed away suddenly over winter break. Our district has realized some of our challenges. They have put extra support in place to support us. Every day there are more adults. I’m a little nervous about my son.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

She co-created a Facebook group for local families seeking to set up pods, and quickly discovered that many parents were looking for learning pods, which would be run by teachers or tutors and allow families to navigate distance learning. But now, when kids are at home, privileged parents are going to be able to hire tutors and teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

A central theme of both books is public school desegregation, a cause that Meredith risked his life to achieve in Mississippi. While doing this, I sent my son to intensely segregated New York City schools. They were private schools. Private school seemed the only option, and a hugely expensive one.

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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 daughter is going to a private school this year. Rory Robinson, Fremont County, Wyoming Credit: Image provided by Rory Robinson.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Long after the Supreme Court ended school segregation with its 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, race remained a contentious issue in the educational sphere, and many white families enrolled their children in private schools known as “segregation academies.” from Guatemala.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Under such plans, the funding for a course taken by an individual student goes to the school or online company offering the course, often away from the student’s local district. Utah’s Course Access legislation also allows kids in private schools and home-schooled kids to participate through a separate funding stream.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. The closest private schools, in Kingman, are more than two hours away.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

She resigned from her position at a rural, private school in the Philippines after accepting an offer from Clark County. Edna Posadas-Ingles tutors some of her former students while her home country, the Philippines, remains in quarantine. The 45-year-old has worked with students with disabilities for nearly two decades.

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