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PROOF POINTS: Why are kids still struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. A much smaller amount went to academic recovery, such as tutoring or summer school.

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Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change

ED Surge

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.

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When kids pick their ‘trusted adult,’ it pays off

The Hechinger Report

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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A Surprising Approach to Science Labs for Online Students Boosts Access to STEM Fields

ED Surge

Yet how we devised the traditional education system, they can’t be accepted the way they are. She took classes on campus and planned to major in psychology, but she didn’t really know what she wanted to do with her life. Yet Krip did so well that she became a chemistry tutor for other students. “I She was not sleeping well.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

The Hechinger Report

Only 40 percent of older students with children manage to get degrees or certificates within six years, a lower proportion than their traditional-age classmates, and dropout rates are higher among older students with kids. Tutors, financial aid counselors and academic advisers are always available online, he said. 40% of U.S.

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Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges

The Hechinger Report

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.