The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Tailoring learning to students’ exact needs takes significant resources, teacher training and, ideally, close collaboration with families — something many schools struggle to pull off. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2022

Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? In comparison to the program’s other courses, this one is relatively obscure; only 25,000 students take the AP Art History exam each year. As the class has progressed, I have noticed that we are learning primarily about European, specifically Christian, art.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 My Chapter: Moving From Education 1.0

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

But these “action research” studies are often poorly designed without comparison or control groups and their conclusions — my idea worked! His nonprofit arm, the Learning Agency Lab, launched the Teacher Run Experiment Network this 2020-21 school year. — are colored by teacher subjectivity.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

This kind of intensive tutoring – three times a week or more during the school day – is new and the school districts didn’t have previous pre-pandemic tutoring contracts for comparison. But generally, if all the student goals are met, companies stand to earn more in an outcomes-based contract than they would have otherwise, Walker said. “It’s

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

student population today participate in tutoring, it has historically been reserved for the monied elite and is often cost-prohibitive for children like Victor, who attends an elementary school where three in four students receive discounted meals. That market includes roughly $630 million in online tutoring services alone.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

Tailoring learning to students’ exact needs takes significant resources, teacher training and, ideally, close collaboration with families — something many schools struggle to pull off. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I I didn’t have the mindset to make this shift. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

If middle and elementary school students are forced to repeat grades because they fall short of a standard anchored to NAEP proficient, vast numbers will repeat grades. Designating NAEP proficient as the achievement benchmark for accountability systems is certainly not cautious use. emphasis added]. On the surface, this does seem awful.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

Study results can depend greatly on whether the comparison control group is getting nothing or another extra-help alternative. Matthew Kraft, a Brown University economist who studies tutoring, says there hasn’t been an ideal study that pits online video tutoring directly against in-person tutoring to measure the difference between the two.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

That’s a starker comparison. (To To be sure, one would still have hoped to see stronger results for tutoring as the Nashville program migrated to outside of school hours; students who received both tutoring and personalized learning time should have meaningfully outperformed students who had only the personalized learning time.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

He finds online learning boring, but says he is “learning a lot.” In September, online learning got off to a rocky start. But even though Marc found online learning boring, he said, “I’m learning a lot.” With math, he could turn to an online calculator for help. Credit: Marc.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

At least two other schools — including Keams Canyon Elementary on the Hopi Reservation and Rocky Ridge Boarding School on the Navajo Nation — also had students or staff report to school after March 16. Nearly 70 percent of public schools serving Native students were conducting digital learning, according to the survey.

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