The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In the middle of all this activity, seventh-grader Jacob Higuera sat alone with his laptop, intently typing out a social studies assignment. Jacob Higuera, a seventh-grader at the Innovation Academy, completes a social studies assignment on his laptop while students take part in other lessons in the background.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. As a former tutor, I served PreK-12th grade students who learned the very histories I had to reconstruct my mind to accept years later. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

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History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Once again, the technology acts as a placeholder.

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Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 106

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

DoDEA educators went through a combined total of 2 million hours of professional learning and 800,000 hours of focused collaboration during the implementation of the system’s College and Career Ready Standards that began with PK-5 mathematics in the 2015-16 school year and were completed with PK-5 social studies in 2021-22.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

The district started in 1989 with middle-school English and social studies, and progressed to high school math and chemistry by 2006. At South Side Middle School and High School on Long Island, detracking went even slower, taking 17 years to fully roll out.

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Middle School High School Tutoring Elementary School 140

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

He says his attendance and grades improved after he received counseling, tutoring and medication to control his multiple behavior disorders. He struggled to read and do grade-level math and couldn’t follow what was being taught in science and social studies. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

“We want to stop that disconnection, catch them before they become opportunity youth,” said Jerome Jupiter, the former schoolteacher who heads up YEP’s educational arm, which combines tutoring with case management. YEP receives some funding for its tutors and support services through a memorandum of understanding with each originating school.

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High School K-12 Tutoring Elementary School 71

C3 Teachers

JULY 27, 2024

As a starting place I looked for recent research in social studies on the uses of AI tools to support academic outcomes. As you might expect, there’s not much, but I found a one interesting study. This article reports the results of research on a custom designed AI-powered chatbot in social studies education.

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Tutoring Social Studies K-12 Research 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

Schools of education typically require students earning a degree in elementary education to take regular arts and science classes – such English literature, social studies, math, fine arts, and even physical education – as well as a “methods” class that teaches them how to present the material and to anticipate the common errors students make.

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Elementary School K-12 Professional Development Tutoring 76

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.

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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

She tutored at two D.C. She taught social studies and worked as the “dean of culture,” a role that allowed her to plan field trips and work with families on discipline issues. Every textbook and institution told us our legacy was a powerful one. charter schools and decided to pursue a career in education.

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Charter School High School Cultures Public School 99

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We have classroom tutors now. The school has lost a bunch of teachers, but three of my son’s core subject teachers — English, social studies and science — have all left since Christmas. Our district has realized some of our challenges. They have put extra support in place to support us. Every day there are more adults.

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Oral History History High School Public School 118

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Most of those teachers taught English or social studies, where the applications of chatbots are more obvious. Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. At the moment, though, precisely what that looks like differs.

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Tutoring K-12 Humanities Social Studies 141

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Credit: Moriah Ratner for The Hechinger Report Finn found that the teachers were more likely to view the students with obesity as academically inferior, “messy” and more likely to need tutoring. In surveys, teachers also predicted that students with obesity weren’t good in other subjects such as math and social studies. “To

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Elementary School Tutoring Psychology Research 132

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Developed by the Washington-based Center for Applied Linguistics , this method allows English learners to master the language while studying subjects such as math, science or social studies. Francis of Dubuque, a group of nuns from Iowa who operate a tutoring center in town. from Guatemala.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In Nevada, in fact, parents can spend state education dollars any way they please — on private, public, online, part-time and full-time schools, on tutoring and extra books — through education savings accounts, which an advocate for them calls “the purest form of educational freedom.”.

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Charter School Sociology Tutoring Psychology 88

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2024

I had a summer job between tutoring and teaching, installing solar panels. The other thing I try to do is a lot of role plays for social studies and history. Wishing you a restful holiday and I look forward to connecting in the new year. Caroline Preston The interview: This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

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Teaching Oral History History Tutoring 105

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. Raised by educators in this tribal village at the base of the Grand Canyon, she started kindergarten a little ahead of her peers.

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Education Elementary School Government K-12 109

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As Seth geared up to take the social studies exam, Tejada told him about his years pulling shifts in his familys Mexican restaurant. A few weeks earlier, the teen had failed the social studies GED test by just a few points. Society is much harder on kids like Seth poor, family scattered when they take the same detours.

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