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PROOF POINTS: 10 of the most popular stories about education research in 2020

The Hechinger Report

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. Simply telling students to “work together” or “discuss” often didn’t generate learning improvements for students in the studies.

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

The Hechinger Report

Maybe you can do that in social studies. 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. These kids just missed 18 months of school.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 05

Dangerously Irrelevant

Instead of teaching five 50-minute classes each week, a Social Studies teacher might offer three 60-minute classes and a 40-minute review class one week, while a Biology teacher down the hall might offer two 80-minute lab sections, a 60-minute direct instruction section, and a 40-minute group work section during the same week.

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PROOF POINTS: The best way to teach might depend on the subject

The Hechinger Report

I’ve noticed that doing a lot of practice problems during school hours is a big part of the algebra tutoring programs that have produced strong results for teens. But they had success with English, science and social studies. Although the study took place in England, Taylor sees lessons here for U.S.

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What teachers want from AI

The Hechinger Report

An AI tutor that helps middle and high schoolers become better writers. An AI chatbot that walks students through how to solve math problems. An AI instructional coach designed to help English teachers create lesson plans and project ideas. These aren’t tools created by education technology companies.

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Schools call parents ?co-teachers,? but we have no idea what we?re doing

The Hechinger Report

I had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing. I figure the educational videos she watches while I work are good enough to cover science and social studies for now. It’s my job to help writers craft stories with engaging narratives and detailed descriptions of characters.

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Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

The Hechinger Report

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.