IRVING, Texas — Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple…
Read more A gender gap in STEM widened during the pandemic. Schools are trying to make up lost groundRigorous research rarely shows that any teaching approach produces large and consistent benefits for students. But tutoring seemed to be a rare exception. Before the pandemic, almost 100…
Read more Tutoring was supposed to save American kids after the pandemic. The results? ‘Sobering’View of the Tennessee State Capitol, where lawmakers were the first in the nation to pass a law in 2014 to make community college tuition free for future…
Read more What one state learned after a decade of free community collegeEducators around the country are scrambling to save jobs and programs created in the last few years as they face the end of the federal funds aimed at…
Read more OPINION: As federal pandemic funds end, K-12 systems must look for bold changes – The Hechinger ReportLYNN, Mass. — In a middle school classroom in this Colonial-era city north of Boston, four 13- and 14-year-old boys were creating a poster with icons of their…
Read more Summer learning programs try to help students catch up before federal money endsUrban school districts are in crisis. Student and teacher absenteeism, special education referrals, mental health complications and violence within and outside schools are all on the rise as…
Read more OPINION: Urban school districts must make dramatic changes to surviveEver since the pandemic shut down schools in the spring of 2020, education researchers have pointed to tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up…
Read more PROOF POINTS: New studies of online tutoring highlight troubles with attendance and larger tutoring groupsReports about schools squandering their $190 billion in federal pandemic recovery money have been troubling. Many districts spent that money on things that had nothing to do with…
Read more PROOF POINTS: Some of the $190 billion in pandemic money for schools actually paid offRates of chronic absenteeism are at record-high levels. More than 1 in 4 students missed 10 percent or more of the 2021-22 school year. That means millions of…
Read more OPINION: There’s a promising path to get students back on track to graduation – The Hechinger ReportSchools spend billions of dollars a year on products and services, including everything from staplers and textbooks to teacher coaching and training. Does any of it help students…
Read more PROOF POINTS: We have tried paying teachers based on how much students learn. Now schools are expanding that idea to contractors and vendors.The STEM pipeline – a metaphor for the development of future scientists, engineers and other high tech workers – likely starts with a narrower funnel in the post-pandemic…
Read more PROOF POINTS: How Covid narrowed the STEM pipelineChronic absenteeism has surged across the country since the pandemic, with more than one out of four students missing at least 18 days of school a year. That’s…
Read more PROOF POINTS: Tracking student data falls short in combating absenteeism at schoolOur students are struggling. As a college president and a clinical psychologist, I know this well. Recent headlines tell a distressing story about the mental health of college…
Read more OPINION: Our college students are struggling emotionally. We need to understand how to help them – The Hechinger ReportResearch points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. There have been a hundred randomized control trials,…
Read more PROOF POINTS: Four lessons from post-pandemic tutoring researchThis story was produced by The Associated Press and EdSource and republished with permission. CONCORD, Calif. – Aylah Levy had some catching up to do this fall when…
Read more Fewer kids are enrolling in kindergarten as pandemic fallout lingersNumbers don’t lie, right? But they also don’t always tell the whole story. That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the…
Read more PROOF POINTS: There is a worldwide problem in math and it's not just about the pandemicIn the heart of the Deep South, Mississippi has wrestled with enduring educational disparities, a profoundly rooted challenge passed down through generations. The pandemic exacerbated preexisting funding inequities…
Read more OPINION: Historically underserved school districts in Mississippi were hit hard in the pandemic and need immediate help – The Hechinger Report
