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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A student’s view of PS2 Pal, the AI tutor used in a learning experiment inside Harvard’s physics department. Very few researchers have evaluated whether students are benefiting, and one well-designed study showed that using ChatGPT for math actually harmed student achievement. They learned more and they liked it.

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JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. It’s a long road of recovery.” Read the stories.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

D to her pupils, sits at a table with one of the young students she tutors as they clap and sing as part of their lesson. Perez started tutoring students around the time the COVID-19 vaccine made it safe to meet in-person. Perez started tutoring students around the time the COVID-19 vaccine made it safe to meet in-person.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amira is the namesake of an AI reading program that aims to improve reading ability by giving kids a personal literacy assistant and tutor. A screenshot from a video about the Amira reading program shows the avatar that tutors children as they practice literacy skills. The post Can an AI tutor teach your child to read?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

Two University of California, Berkeley, researchers documented how they tamed AI hallucinations in math by asking ChatGPT to solve the same problem 10 times. Two researchers from University of California, Berkeley, recently documented how they successfully reduced ChatGPT’s instructional errors to near zero in algebra.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The good news is that this particular malady has a prescription for treatment: “high-dose” tutoring — a concentrated form of small-group study that meets multiple times per week. The trials showed that for low-income ninth and 10th graders, high-dose tutoring led to a “sizeable” improvement (0.18 Watered Down?

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

Should AI chatbots be used as tutors? That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. The book is called “ Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing). ”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A new book by one of those AI pioneers digs into the origins of ChatGPT and the intersection of research on how the brain works and building new large language models for AI. He says that new chatbots have the potential to revolutionize learning if they can deliver on the promise of being personal tutors to students.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Since the sudden arrival of ChatGPT just a few months ago, there’s renewed interest in using AI chatbots as tutors. Some researchers are exploring one that might sound trivial but actually could be quite thorny: What should these computer-generated educational assistants look and sound like?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Like hundreds of school districts, Aspire purchased an online tutoring service for the spring of 2021 to help these students. Students could log in to the tutoring service, called Paper , whenever they wanted, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and connect with a tutor to help with schoolwork in any subject.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

Many students, including but not limited to students with dyslexia, need one-on-one, research- and evidence-based instruction, and schools need well-trained, experienced teachers who have the necessary skills to give students a fighting chance to catch up. Related: 5 ways schools hope to fight Covid-19 learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

He took college classes for credit, received tutoring and advising and learned about other services available on campus and where to find them. “I During her sophomore year, Jimenez Delgado went out on a limb and asked her ecology professor about open research positions.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Last year, when concern over the pandemic’s effects on education was at its peak, school districts turned to high-dose tutoring, a regular and intensive form of small-group tutoring. There’s a lot of evidence that high-dose tutoring improves reading and math performance, such as this study from Brown University.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

Soon, I realized that the environment and priorities of corporate research left me isolated, uninspired and unfulfilled. I decided this path wasn’t for me, but I didn’t see other alternatives until a friend recommended joining Minnesota’s Reading Corps and Math Corps, two programs that place tutors in local schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

With new technologies and opportunities for help outside the classroom, like private tutoring or AI, wealthier students are often better equipped than their peers to enter college. Even if they received extra help, like a private tutor, theyve never had to ask for it. This is worse with younger students, Johnson says.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How well does online tutoring work? The federal government is pushing schools to spend a big chunk of their $122 billion in federal American Rescue Plan funds on tutoring , but bringing in armies of tutors into school buildings is a logistical nightmare. Online tutoring is a tempting solution.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2023

School districts around the country have rolled out tutoring programs at a feverish pace with the help of federal relief funds, intent on helping struggling students get back on track academically after the disruption caused when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools. The organization picked a diverse set of nine districts to study.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For the researchers, that means that absenteeism threatens to aggravate the teacher shortage. Previous research from one of the authors has tried to show that missing class can negatively impact what teachers think about absent students, leading them to view those students as lacking social skills and being less academically capable.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2019

I, for one, don’t shy away from the fact that both research and evidence should be part of the conversation. When it comes to innovation, I see digital leadership and blended learning as two of many ideas, concepts, or strategies where there is research and evidence to support these innovative practices.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Instead, we’ve proposed interventions like high-intensity tutoring and extending the school year. What is so effective about this approach is that it gets at what research has made clear and what the best educators intuitively know: Academic growth is deeply intertwined with social and emotional development.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 10, 2019

What has changed are the tools, research, and societal shifts that impact the work. Be a teacher The best leaders are the best teachers according to research by Sydney Finkelstein who spent ten years studying the difference between world-class and typical people in leadership positions. Leadership is leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

What Braham Area Schools in Minnesota needs to address its math gap are more certified math teachers, more math tutors, and smaller class sizes, said district leaders. That replicates what most of the studies have found, said Scott Peters, senior research scientist at educational assessment nonprofit NWEA.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Last month, my colleague Jill Barshay detailed potentially devastating cuts made to education research when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 89 contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences, a research arm of the Department of Education. That means you’ve lost your tutor.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

What stands out for me is how readers remain interested in basic research into how kids learn, from reading to critical thinking to collaborating with peers. This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In-class tutors and data chats at her middle school in Compton, California, have made a dramatic difference, the 11-year-old said. She proudly pulled up a performance tracker at a tutoring session last week, displaying a column of perfect 100 percent scores on all her weekly quizzes from January. A tutor helps students at Benjamin O.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

This 1959 book, known as the Conant Report, is the source of the 250-to-1 student-to-counselor ratio recommendation, according historical research conducted by Harvard graduate student Tara Nicola. Conant was a renowned chemist at Harvard and a leader of the Manhattan Project so he knew a thing or two about rigorous scientific research.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. Tutoring became a leading solution for academic recovery and schools contracted with outside companies to provide tutors.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated. Attrition is definitely up, but it’s not a mass exodus of teachers,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a nonprofit research organization. . And on Aug.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Colleges and universities, on average, are admitting a larger proportion of their applicants than they did 20 years ago, new research by the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute finds. The process helps the universities fill seats, but research shows it largely excludes lower-income families. It’s basic math.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Dozens of nonprofit organizations have promoted the research evidence that it will help their children do better in school. A new wave of research over the past decade has looked at how much parents talk about numbers and shapes with their children, and whether these spontaneous and natural conversations help children learn the subject.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. Parents and teachers may like smaller classes but the research evidence for spending money on them isn’t strong. Class size reduction is costly,” the Danish researchers wrote.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

looks like student achievement just fell off a cliff, said Dan Goldhaber, an economist at the American Institutes for Research. Despite tutoring and extra help at home, many students at the top 90th percentile appear not to have mastered middle school math skills as well as previous high-scoring eighth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

That has not deterred a trio of researchers from trying to quantify that influence. Kraft and two other researchers from Harvard University and the University of Virginia turned to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health , a periodic survey of 20,000 teens from 1994 into adulthood.

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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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OCTOBER 17, 2022

This sobering anecdote comes from a research project led by Kelly Slay, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, who has been conducting in-depth interviews with admissions officers in 2022 to understand how the elimination of SAT and ACT testing requirements has been playing out inside colleges and universities.

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