The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

Charter School 136

Charter School Heritage Education K-12 136

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After school, staff and tutors work individually and in small groups of six or seven with teens deemed most at risk for not graduating. In the past, she tried to connect homeless students to a tutoring program run by a local social services agency to help them boost their grades. I think this model brings hope.”.

Tutoring 102

Tutoring High School Tradition Museum 102

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.

Teaching 124

Teaching EdTech Professional Development Tutoring 124

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The director of professional development formed faculty book clubs to discuss Claude Steele’s “ Whistling Vivaldi ,” a book about “stereotype threat,” which is a psychological theory about how minorities perform worse in environments where people like them traditionally don’t succeed. We have a problem in America.

Tutoring 119

Tutoring Psychology High School Research 119

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The new approach threw out many traditional facets of education such as the A-F grading scale and time-based learning in which students advance to a new grade level each year. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”.

High School 138

High School Tradition History Tutoring 138

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Students spend the rest of their time at resource centers receiving in-person instruction or tutoring. The teenager is behind on credits, but hopes to catch up and graduate on time this school year.

Charter School 98

Charter School K-12 Tradition High School 98

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. Adrienne Hudson, founder of RISE.

Tutoring 95

Tutoring High School Civics Teaching 95

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Back in 2015, my colleague Nichole Dobo reported that nationally schools paid $225 per student plus between $50,000 and $125,000 a year for professional development and support services. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. In scientific speak, it was a “null” effect.

Middle School 104

Middle School Tutoring Teaching Professional Development 104

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. By mid-April, about 111,000 devices and 11,000 hotspots had been distributed, he said.

Charter School 126

Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 126

ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.

Humanities 98

Humanities Psychology Education Library 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I’ve talked to [Monica Goldson, the chief executive officer of Prince George’s County Public Schools] about implementing a three-hour early dismissal once a month, for teachers to get that time for grading and planning that isn’t taken up by professional development. Ideally, we’d be doing extended day or have tutors.

Oral History 144

Oral History History High School Public School 144

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2016

On any given day in one of these schools, a teacher might be tutoring a student, a student might be tutoring another student, or a student might even be tutoring an adult parent, community member, or educator. Students learn both the content they study and the practice of tutorials.

Tutoring 67

Tutoring Professional Development Middle School Teaching 67

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.

Education 105

Education Government K-12 Elementary School 105