ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Topics around how AI fits into education continued to draw listeners this year, including our interview with Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy, about his groups new AI chatbot tutor. Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report There was a logic behind that: In a traditional course sequence, finishing calculus is easier if students take Algebra I by eighth grade since they can continue on to geometry, Algebra II, precalculus or trigonometry, and then calculus their senior year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Teaching aides are at least as effective in tutoring as licensed teachers, and far more effective than volunteer tutors, research shows Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. And both sets of paid professionals—aides and teachers—were far more effective than volunteer tutors. But it was based on very few studies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura. Online was going to be disruptive.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. New research suggests that these schools might actually pay for themselves in long-term benefits to both students and the public as a whole. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But research shows that many of these ideas have had a spotty track record in the past and that schools will have to pay close attention to what’s worked—and what hasn’t—to maximize their odds for success with just about any strategy. Here’s a rundown of the most relevant research. Not all tutoring has been successful.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.” Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

I haven’t heard about many school districts announcing longer schedules yet but I was curious to learn what research evidence shows for students at schools that have extended the day or lengthened the year. (I’m Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising. What you do with the time matters.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Today, and for the last year or so, aspiring educators at American University are required to spend a minimum of 40 hours tutoring students in Washington, D.C., Research indicates that aspiring educators who get to practice teaching earlier in their training and more often are more likely to be effective, Sakimura says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Time spent finding materials is time not spent giving students feedback, tailoring existing lessons for students or giving students one-to-one tutoring help. Related: Education research, condensed. Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Teacher-curated materials may be disjointed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. Flipped classrooms also free up class time for teachers to help students individually, as a tutor does. My takeaway message is that it could be better,” said researcher David C.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. I really don’t think that they’re growing,” said Brown, who’s also president of the National Tutoring Association. “I Read the stories. Ishmael Brown Jr.,

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 5, 2016

In this post, I want to share three different ways teachers can shake up the traditional approach to the Station Rotation Model. Online research. Individual work or one-on-one tutoring with the teacher. Over the last two years, I’ve spent time exploring variations on the established blended learning models. with web tools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, one of the assessment companies. These test score analyses don’t offer explanations, but researchers shared a range of theories. One report documented that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

“It’s a great feeling of satisfaction,” said Logue, now a research professor at CUNY’s Graduate Center, “because it isn’t just CUNY. In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Instead, suggesting a way forward, a review of 53 reading studies , led by University of Virginia researcher Colby Hall and published online September 2022 in Reading Research Quarterly, found that much cheaper reading interventions for children with a variety of reading difficulties were also quite effective for children with dyslexia.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Which all begs the question: Should we expect the traditional education system to add responsibilities when we already know that it has not been able to keep up over the past few years? Indiana is offering families grants of up $1,000 to support after-school tutoring. K-12 educators have one of the highest rates of burnout in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic-related topics, particularly the effectiveness of “high dosage” tutoring and the lack of strong research evidence for several other ideas to help students catch up, such as smaller classes. PROOF POINTS: Paper beats pixels on most picture books, research finds.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Columbia University’s Science of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER), our work is dedicated to examining the academic experience of our students and instructors through a scientific lens. To inform these conversations, observational research — without intervention — is the necessary foundation.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 25, 2021

Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? We describe what we saw in detail in the new book and, in Chapter 7, articulate a Profile of a Deeper Learning Leader that’s based on empirical research, not just anecdotes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2023

Researchers say math learning suffered for various reasons. In lieu of traditional remedial classes, which some research finds to be ineffective, more schools are offering “corequisite” classes that help students shore up on the basics while also taking higher courses like calculus. By 2021, it swelled to nearly 1,400.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

In New York City, only 54 percent of students graduated from high school within six years at the city’s 50 transfer schools, which is the name the city uses because students who fall behind “transfer” from traditional high schools, where 83 percent of students managed to graduate within six years. Most finish far sooner.) They let you eat.”.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Esports programs are growing at colleges across the country for their ability to attract and engage students—just like traditional sports. When staff tried to create an official peer tutoring program, students said there was no need. How can colleges create esports programs where everyone feels like they can join?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism. As part of his role at the center, Aguilar conducted research into how teachers think about AI in classrooms. That’s led to a frenetic rush to market educational tools as AI.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Barbara Means, an educational psychologist at SRI International, a California-based research institute, says that while there is no hard data on the number of these schools, a reasonable estimate would be somewhere between 250 and 500. Sharon Lynch, a science education professor at George Washington University in Washington D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While it is good news that these results are lighting a fire under the education policy world and highlighting the particular need among students of color, the traditional approach to improving results — more math, more reading, more pressure — seems dubious at best. The pandemic created disastrous academic deficits for U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

For example, research by McKinsey & Company found that Black and Hispanic students are less likely to have access to technology. Administrators are looking for ways to squeeze in more time for math help during the school day and are considering extending traditional school hours for tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. The odds against these kids are daunting,’’ says Richard Kahlenberg , a senior fellow at The Century Foundation , a nonpartisan public research institute. asks Larkin, a Stanford University graduate who came to Match as a tutor and trained in its teacher residency program. “To

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Sixty-one percent of student fathers drop out of college without degrees, compared to 48 percent of student mothers, the women’s policy research institute finds.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Traditional teaching uses class time to introduce students to concepts, which they then engage with on their own through homework. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a VR experience that lets students step into the virtual set of a final scene in the classic Orson Welles film “Citizen Kane.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Related: PROOF POINTS: Four lessons from post-pandemic tutoring research One fear we have is that too many education stakeholders have given up on school improvement because they don’t believe it’s possible. No school governance model is predominant. All these findings are consistent with a wide body of literature on what works.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In other cases, where academic struggles or bullying was to blame, tutoring and counseling helped re-engage students and keep them in class. is an alternative school that welcomes students who didn’t find the behavioral or academic support they needed in traditional schools. El Dorado High School in Chandler, Ariz.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

But research has been mixed on whether it works. ST Math is produced by the nonprofit MIND Research Institute, but it’s quite expensive — around $15,000 per year, said Morial Principal Mark Burton. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The accepted lexicon for discussing college students is “traditional,” meaning those who attend college full time right out of high school, and “non-traditional,” meaning those who attend when they’re older than 24, have a family, work, are financially independent from their parents or have been in the military.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The proportion of high-achieving students from families making more than $250,000 a year applying through early decision is nearly twice that of high-achieving students from families that make less than $50,000, research commissioned by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation shows. This year we’re looking at 30.”.

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