The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Another analysis shows that this drop accounts for nearly a third of the total reduction in public school enrollment across 33 states. Some well-to-do families hire tutors — sometimes paying a teacher’s salary — to work alongside a child who is attending remote kindergarten. Other families are skipping the school year entirely.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Yet, while the American School Counselor Association recommends a student-to-counselor ratio of no more than 250-to-1, the national average in public schools is 415-to-1 , almost double the recommended rate. So, how can schools help students overcome these challenges?

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It also means ensuring staff have adequate time and professional development to effectively engage and support families, the CRPE paper said. Last year, teachers in Salem Public Schools in Massachusetts had difficulty keeping track of which students were in quarantine, for how long and what individualized supports they needed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms. The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

High schoolers at NACA graduate at much higher rates and tend to outperform their peers in Albuquerque Public Schools — which authorizes the charter — and throughout New Mexico. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2016

The dabbawalas have been profiled by the New York Times and NBC News , among many others, and there is even a Harvard Business School case study about them. . 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Every child also needs to know that there are caring adults inside their school who have their best interests at heart and who can and will support their parents and guardians in helping them reach their full potential. DoDEA schools have skilled counselors to meet the needs of our population. Related: Schools on U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. We developed a plan that if we can train our own educators, we could, No. “I was just a secretary fighting to be a teacher,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When education went online, pods took off — and then disappeared quickly as school buildings reopened around the country. After school, staff and tutors work individually and in small groups of six or seven with teens deemed most at risk for not graduating. I think this model brings hope.”. But students wouldn’t go.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

The district is also planning to hold several professional development training sessions to help educators learn how to use AI in the classroom, he added. This is why providing educator training on how to incorporate generative AI tools, especially for her high school teachers, is a priority for her district this year, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. Columbus School, Carteret, N.J

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Her organization estimates that now 6 to 10 percent of public school districts across the United States are piloting or planning competency-based approaches. In response, the district set up opportunities for professional development, programs that continued during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

As an educator, Wright has taught in a school district as it launched a controversial desegregation program. Wright used her passion for education to help transform the public-school district in Washington, D.C., Dr. Cedrick Gray, superintendent of Jackson Public Schools, says JPS has budget concerns, but not a budget “crisis.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

-based EdTech Evidence Exchange, sees it as a major problem , especially given that more schools are using technology following the pandemic. Too many schools think the cost of training and professional development and support are optional,” Epstein has told EdSurge.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Faced with the unprecedented challenge of lengthy school closures because of coronavirus, the nation’s roughly 13,000 public school districts are scrambling to cope. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher. Only 7 percent of teachers identify as Black.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had a problem: Only 56 percent of third-graders in his district had scored proficient on the state reading test. ” Jack Silva, chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

William Hite , superintendent of Philadelphia’s public schools. Young people are glad to be back in school. The county encompassing the Fayetteville Public Schools — in Northwest Arkansas near the Ozark Mountains — has logged the third highest number of deaths to Covid in the state. That’s number one.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

But even with online learning plans, school districts around the country could face an “unprecedented historic academic regression” unless they do more, he said. To stave off this learning loss, Miami-Dade is adding summer sessions and working to identify vulnerable kids and pair them with virtual tutors and mentors, among other steps.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The state has also poured money into tutoring corp programs. Last year, for example, the legislature invested more than 30 million into targeted programs that included vouchers for high-dose tutoring, an intensive form of small group tutoring identified as a key way to spur academic recovery post pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2025

CLEVELAND In a public school cafeteria here, 6- and 7-year olds were taking turns sketching their ideas for a building made of toothpicks and gummy bears. Last year, Horizon and other nonprofit after-school providers reached more than 7,000 students in Cleveland public schools, buoyed by $17 million in pandemic recovery aid.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Victor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez, president of the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico The money has so far been used to pay for temporary teacher salary increases, hire hundreds of school mental health professionals and fund tutoring programs. Colón said he hopes this additional support can help his students catch up.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

During his tenure, Cardona signed off on almost $6 billion in federal dollars for the islands educational system, leading to a historic pay increase for teachers, funding for after-school tutoring programs, hiring of hundreds of school mental health professionals and the creation of a pilot program to decentralize the PRDE.

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