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Los Angeles Wave
Shirley Hawkins
31 December 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Under 800 Words
Ed Center provides tutoring assistance to children from fourth through the 12th grades in South Los Angeles. The center makes tutoring as financially accessible as possible by charging $6.25 for two hours of tutoring ...
Christian Science Monitor
Sarah Matusek
2 December 2020
New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
CS Remastered is a nonprofit that provides free individualized coding classes to students. The kind of one-on-one tutoring they might not get at school. The nonprofit was started by 17-year-old, Samvit Agarwal, who go...
8 October 2020
Wooster, Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A collaboration between Ohio's Wooster City Schools and the College of Wooster has allowed for an enhanced educational experience for many students during the coronavirus pandemic. The partnership not only provides tu...
2 October 2020
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
The Carlsbad Literacy Program provides free tutoring to adults who want help with their literacy skills. The program's students in the program include English language learners, and also helps with citizenship skills,...
18 September 2020
Los Angeles, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Two teens from Los Angeles created a tutoring program to help supplement education during the pandemic, called the “Covid NineTeen Project.” The project is entirely teen run, from the creators to the mentors. More tha...
14 September 2020
New York, New York, United States
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Over 3000 Words
In New York City, “regional enrichment centers,” or schools for the children of essential workers, popped up. The centers provided a place where workers, who couldn’t take care of their kids when schools shut down dur...
The Hechinger Report
Alia Wong
10 August 2020
United States
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Over 3000 Words
Tutoring has a longstanding reputation of being an effective measure in helping students stay on-track with their school subjects, but it also costs money. Schools around the U.S. are considering ways to stretch their...
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Veronika Folentova
22 June 2020
Levoca, Presov, Slovakia
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Over 3000 Words
The Romani Education Fund in Slovakia is helping children from the Roma community, which has a history of social and economic disadvantages as well as being subject to ethnic discrimination, overcome challenges to fin...
26 March 2020
San Diego, California, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Upon seeing a need for educational resources to support the out of school transition due to the COVID-19 outbreak, two high school seniors in the San Jose area stepped up to fill that gap. Sarika Sriram and Uditha Vel...
12 February 2020
Berlin, Germany
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1500-3000 Words
Back On Track Syria is a tutoring initiative in Berlin helping Arabic-speaking students keep up with school subjects by offering help in their native language. The students in the program are often refugees and migran...
The Beacon Today
Brenna Brown
8 January 2020
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Libraries around West Palm Beach, Florida, have collaborated to offer resources to children who need to work on technology-dependant homework after school, but who don't have access to the Internet or a computer at ho...
5 December 2019
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Under 800 Words
With a decrease in government aid for refugee resettlement programs in recent years, nonprofits and other groups have stepped up to fill the gap. In Cleveland, Refugee Response offers in-home tutoring, a program for h...
27 June 2019
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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1500-3000 Words
By partnering with the Mayo Clinic, focusing on just two bachelor's degree programs (in health sciences), and emphasizing the importance of close support systems between faculty and students, the decade-old University...
5 June 2019
Kalispell, Montana, United States
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Under 800 Words
Placing students into smaller groups with peers of similar learning ability allows schools to allocate resources to struggling or underprivileged students. The Peterson Elementary School in Kalispell, Montana, has beg...
11 February 2019
London, United Kingdom
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800-1500 Words
The Access Project in London recruits volunteer tutors in science, math, and technology fields to help young women build confidence in their STEM courses. The project also works to spread educational resources and tut...
3 September 2018
United States
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Under 800 Words
A new crop of international companies is connecting English-language teachers and students in China for online tutoring sessions. The flexible arrangements are a way for Chinese elementary and secondary pupils to impr...
17 August 2018
Douar Laadam, Morocco
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Project Soar is trying to get more young girls in Morocco to finish school, and it’s working. The nonprofit offers after school programs and tutoring to teenage girls, in hopes they continue their education and don’t ...
13 July 2018
Manvel, North Dakota, United States
Multi-Media
5-15 Minutes
Children of farmworker families, many of whom travel seasonally during the school year, often need help filling gaps in the curriculum. Since the 1960s, the Migrant Education Program has been providing states with acc...
4 June 2018
Farmington, Maine, United States
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1500-3000 Words
To serve students who have dropped out of high school for anxiety-related reasons such as bullying or unstable home circumstances, a program in central Maine is sending teachers to students' homes with personalized le...
Christian Science Monitor
Amadou Diallo
5 December 2017
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In high-poverty urban schools student retention is a major issue, often school is the last concern for these children. Now, City Year and other nonprofits have university students come to the high schools and tutor or...
19 October 2017
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A study of high school students in Chicago has has found that personalized tutoring can help low-income students advance academically, challenging conventional wisdom that once a student falls behind, it's almost impo...
Bright Magazine
Terri Coles
21 April 2017
Toronto, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
Mindfulness and programs, such as Math Guru, designed to address student's anxiety are being implemented in several areas as a way of combatting anxiety and helping students talk through their fears so that it doesn't...
8 March 2016
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A remarkable nonprofit in Baltimore sends teams of volunteers to give overwhelmed youths unconditional help and guidance that cannot be withdrawn.
23 June 2015
Brimley, Michigan, United States
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Under 800 Words
Students in a small town in Michigan are outperforming their peers statewide. Over half of the students are American Indian and many come from low-income families. Because the town's reservation can't be taxed, the sc...
28 May 2015
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
A local math teacher is trying to bring a successful Motor City tutoring program to Philly. The secret ingredient? Love for math, and building relationships between mentors and students.
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