The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How well does online tutoring work? The federal government is pushing schools to spend a big chunk of their $122 billion in federal American Rescue Plan funds on tutoring , but bringing in armies of tutors into school buildings is a logistical nightmare. Online tutoring is a tempting solution.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Like hundreds of school districts, Aspire purchased an online tutoring service for the spring of 2021 to help these students. Students could log in to the tutoring service, called Paper , whenever they wanted, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and connect with a tutor to help with schoolwork in any subject.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amira is the namesake of an AI reading program that aims to improve reading ability by giving kids a personal literacy assistant and tutor. A screenshot from a video about the Amira reading program shows the avatar that tutors children as they practice literacy skills. The post Can an AI tutor teach your child to read?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. While he applies to graduate school, the affable 23-year-old holds a part-time job that barely existed before the pandemic: online tutor. A couple of times, Salvatore recalled, he tutored as many as seven students at once.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Perhaps counterintuitively, Heid thinks that a new tutoring program they’re piloting in Polk County will help to ease some of that burden. In turning to tutoring services, the county is hardly unique. An estimated 40 percent of schools plan to use their federal relief dollars on tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

But, while the results of research on what might work to catch kids up is not always clear-cut, many education experts point to tutoring as a tried-and-true method. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020.

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ED Surge

APRIL 14, 2022

Getting tutoring at Arkansas State University has long been easy. A student could just walk into a campus tutoring center and get help from a tutor, on demand—for free. And sometimes tutors were sitting waiting to help, but no students came in to get the benefit. It has increased our availability for every subject.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

I decided this path wasn’t for me, but I didn’t see other alternatives until a friend recommended joining Minnesota’s Reading Corps and Math Corps, two programs that place tutors in local schools. While tutoring, I felt a spark of joy and purpose I hadn’t felt before. Schools also need teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

The world’s wealthiest families have known for centuries how effective tutoring is. Private tutors long educated the aristocracy and continue to supplement the education of kids whose families can afford it. Now, a national nonprofit has found a way to get tutoring to kids from poorer families, too. Census Bureau data.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

Thanks to professor Robert Slavin’s research at Johns Hopkins University, we know that one-on-one tutoring using an evidence-based program is a quick, effective way to increase students’ literacy. As part of their coursework, the university students tutored struggling first and second grade readers.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Last year, when concern over the pandemic’s effects on education was at its peak, school districts turned to high-dose tutoring, a regular and intensive form of small-group tutoring. There’s a lot of evidence that high-dose tutoring improves reading and math performance, such as this study from Brown University.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Teaching aides are at least as effective in tutoring as licensed teachers, and far more effective than volunteer tutors, research shows Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. And both sets of paid professionals—aides and teachers—were far more effective than volunteer tutors. But it was based on very few studies.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. That experience showed me that high-dosage tutoring can't be the only tool we offer students after the disruptions of COVID-19.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

One example is Reading Recovery, a tutoring program for struggling readers in first grade that costs $10,000 per student and was a recipient of one of these grants. The tutoring seemed to harm them. The tutoring sessions likely exposed children to these words so many times that the students memorized them.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Today, and for the last year or so, aspiring educators at American University are required to spend a minimum of 40 hours tutoring students in Washington, D.C., Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

If I’m in need of a tutor, or an editor, or a professor’s help, is that not “receiving assistance from another person”? AI As On-Campus Tutor Perhaps one of the most potent examples I’ve heard is that challenging concepts often stop students in their tracks. Technologists have long dreamed of this vision of a “computer-assisted” tutor.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tennessee’s law was modeled after a much-praised literacy program in neighboring Mississippi that includes tutoring, improved literacy training for teachers and a retention policy for third graders who don’t pass its state test. Nearly 1,200 fourth grade students in the district are required to get tutoring interventions this year.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Q-Chat Tutor: The Q-Chat function acts as a personal tutor for students, guiding them through study materials and helping reinforce learning through interaction. Students can use Q-Chat as a personal tutor. All they need to do is select the option and the tutor begins its questioning. It prompts you to do the rest.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Examples include whole child learning models, blended learning models and high-dose tutoring ones. High-Dose Tutoring “Schools, typically, in this country, don't have enough of an innovation culture. We have an opportunity to create that now,” says Alan Safran, CEO of Saga Education, a high-dose tutoring non-profit.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the diaries, relatively little time was spent being read to by parents, tutoring and other academic lessons, and on non-academic lessons, such as piano, soccer or driver’s ed. Their families have the resources for tutors, after-school activities, or nannies who enforce homework time. But scheduled students also tend to be wealthier.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

APRIL 14, 2024

Intelligent Tutoring Systems : By simulating one-on-one tutoring experiences, AI tutors can provide instant feedback, clarify student doubts, and offer explanations tailored to individual learning styles, thereby enhancing understanding and retention.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China. Tutoring companies have since formed and grown all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Canada, from the U.S.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 9, 2024

Imagine a new educational paradigm: virtual tutors provide real-time assistance, ensuring no students are left behind. Interactive simulations and virtual reality experiences engage learners in immersive educational adventures, making lessons come alive.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. Education researchers have a particular kind of tutoring in mind, what they call “high-dosage” tutoring. The best results occur when tutoring takes place at school during the regular day.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I was not able to homeschool, so a reading tutor and his iPad became his only access to education. Vouchers gave my son social opportunities that he wouldn’t have had otherwise, along with tutors to help mitigate private education deficits. There was a two-year period where I gave up and he was home without social opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math. Some students attend tutoring up to four days a week, at a cost of up to $1,000 a month.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2021

The term most often refers to school classrooms but may include any designated place of learning such as science laboratories, distance learning contexts, libraries, tutoring centers, teachers’ lounges, gymnasiums and non-formal learning spaces.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

Students with access to college counselors and test tutors (read: wealthier students) know this, and many are still using ACT and SAT exams to stand out. Students with access to test tutors are aware that the eye of the admissions needle has narrowed, and they are being coached to use their test scores to thread it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2022

I put a special focus on tutoring – the good and the bad – as well as test-optional admissions and reading. PROOF POINTS: Many schools are buying on-demand tutoring but a study finds that few students are using it. For my year-end post, I’m highlighting 10 of the most important Proof Points stories of 2022. I’ll be back again on Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

But it has also added new ways beyond the one-time placement test for students to qualify for higher level math courses, and increased support — including in-school tutoring and longer class periods — for students who’ve shown promise in the subject. This discovery prompted a series of changes, beginning about a decade ago.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Jake Price, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington AI can serve as a tutor, giving a student who is floundering with a problem immediate feedback. Min Sun, a University of Washington education professor, thinks students should use ChatGPT like a personal tutor.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Schools are planning extended years, summer programs and tutoring sessions to address Covid-19 reading loss. It’s hard to even test where kids are, and in the ways they are [usually tested] in the classroom,” said Adeola Whitney, chief executive officer of Reading Partners, a nonprofit that focuses on reading support and tutoring.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

In college, during my experience [tutoring] at the elementary school, I had a student who inspired me. One of the questions was what they wanted to do when they grow up, and this particular student said that they wanted to be a tutor just like me. I want to make sure that the next generation has the right support [to succeed].

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2023

Education leaders are being encouraged to spend Covid-relief dollars on proven research-based programs such as tutoring to improve children’s learning. For example, Virginia’s Fairfax County used federal funds toward implementing an online, optional tutoring program, but saw limited student participation in 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them. Logue originally sought to conduct a simpler, cleaner study of only algebra, comparing the remedial prerequisite to the college course plus tutoring support.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Time spent finding materials is time not spent giving students feedback, tailoring existing lessons for students or giving students one-to-one tutoring help. One problem is that it’s time consuming. The hunt for materials is also exhausting and can lead to teacher burnout, Zahner said. Related: Education research, condensed.

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