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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2021

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Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education. Some will keep tutoring, even if they are driven underground or are forced to take lower rates. But for some, the situation is still fraught.

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This Children’s Book Author and Future Teacher Wants to Help Ignite Joy in Learning

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In 10th grade, for some extra cash, Campbell signed up to tutor elementary school students through a literacy program in her hometown of Washington, D.C. It is an afterschool program where high school students are hired and trained to tutor elementary school students to try to improve their reading scores. I just liked the money.

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PROOF POINTS: Leading dyslexia treatment isn’t a magic bullet, studies find, while other options show promise

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Many dyslexia advocates remain loyal to Orton-Gillingham, McHale-Small said, because so many parents have kids whom they believe were helped by Orton-Gillingham tutors. They were administered to children as either one-to-one tutoring sessions or in small groups. “You can’t deny the findings of multiple studies.” .

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To Truly Measure Student Growth, Learning Experiences Must Be Personalized

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Danielle Grasso Vinas, Assistant Principal of Crescent Heights Social Justice & S.T.E.A.M. The data platform can also be used to support peer tutoring. How can we personalize things that have historically been standardized to see if they meet every individual learner’s needs? The insight function is very powerful.

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OPINION: We must close college counseling’s equity gap

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The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies require counselors to “use multicultural and social justice theories to promote equity and access for all students.”. and is the author of the book How to Tutor Your Own Child (2011). Does this include calling out flagrant abuse and discriminatory practices?

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The Youth Boxing Club that is Changing Lives in Chicago

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If you’re a kid on Chicago’s West Side, and I ask you to join a mentoring and tutoring program, your answer is probably going to be no. ” Academic and Behavioral Supports So what about academics? .” Ultimately, self-sufficiency is the goal. “We try to put as much of it onto the fighter as possible,” Cannon says.

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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

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Code Next is a perfect example of how better spaces can create social justice,” Kurani said. She thinks more academic interventions and tutoring for those who are struggling can get more students of color interested in advanced STEM, but most organizations seem to be looking for a flashier solution to the field’s diversity problem.

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