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Learn To Be is a U.S. non-profit organization that recruits volunteers to offer free online tutoring to students in underserved communities.. In February 2011, the Learn To Be Foundation was featured on Philanthroper.com, [1] a website that features a different non-profit every day to encourage philanthropy as a daily habit.
In-home tutoring, also known as tuition in British English, it is a form of tutoring that occurs in the home. Tutoring involves receiving guidance and instruction from a tutor who may serve as a teacher or mentor to the student receiving the tutoring. Most often tutoring relates to an academic subject or test preparation.
Online tutoring is the process of tutoring in an online, virtual, or networked, environment, in which teachers and learners participate from separate physical locations. [1] Aside from space, participants can also be separated by time. [2] Online tutoring is practiced using many different approaches for distinct sets of users.
Tutor.com has a longstanding contract with the United States Department of Defense to provide its services free to U.S. military service members and their families. [2] In March 2024, US senators Elise Stefanik and Tom Cotton introduced legislation, the Ban Chinese Communist Party Access to U.S. Military Students Act, to prohibit the U.S. Department of Defense from using Tutor.com. [8]
In-home tutoring is a form of tutoring that occurs in the home. Most often the tutoring relates to an academic subject or test preparation. This is in contrast to tutoring centers or tutoring provided through after-school programs. The service most often involves one-on-one attention provided to the pupil.
Classwide Peer Tutoring (CWPT) is a form of peer-mediated instruction where the teacher creates pairs of students that alternately fill the roles of tutor and student. The tutor asks questions, records points, and provides feedback on whether the student's response matches the correct response designated by the teacher.
[90] [91] [92] [3] Reviews of early ITS systems (1995) showed an effect size of d = 1.0 in comparison to no tutoring, where as human tutors were given an effect size of d = 2.0. [90] Kurt VanLehn's much more recent overview (2011) of modern ITS found that there was no statistical difference in effect size between expert one-on-one human tutors ...
2008–2012 bachelor's degree or higher (5-year estimate) by county (percent) People 25 years and over who have completed an advanced degree by state (percent, 2012) In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic upended regular campus life forcing students to take online classes at home, more than 100 colleges, both public and private have been sued for ...