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Survey: Nearly Half of Students Started Last Fall Below Grade Level — Usually in Math and Reading — but Tutoring Remains Elusive

The latest installment also provided a detailed look at schools’ efforts to implement high-dosage tutoring, which Stanford University researcher Susanna Loeb called the “best approach that we know for accelerating students’ learning” because it offers students help from “an adult who knows them, cares about them and has the tools to address their needs.” 

She has been tracking the implementation of large-scale tutoring efforts across the country as part of the National Student Support Accelerator and called the survey results “the most comprehensive information out there” on how schools are addressing learning loss.

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A Scalable Approach to High-Impact Tutoring for Young Readers: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

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In this brief, we present results from a randomized controlled trial of an early elementary reading tutoring program that has been designed to be affordable at scale. During the 2021-22 school year, over eight hundred kindergarten students in a large Southeastern school district were randomly assigned to receive supplementary tutoring with the Chapter One program. The program embeds part-time tutors into the classroom to provide short bursts of instruction to individual students each week over the course of the school year. The consistent presence of the tutors allows them to build strong relationships with students and meet students’ individual needs at the moment they might most benefit from personalized instruction. 

Redwood Literacy

Redwood Literacy

Redwood Literacy is a data-responsive organization that delivers evidence-based instruction in reading, writing, and math to help students thrive academically, no matter their socioeconomic backgrounds or learning profiles. We specialize in serving students with dyslexia, language-based learning differences, and those performing below grade level.

Cardona’s Tutoring Charge, 1 Year Later: Some Progress, but Obstacles Remain

Rebuilding students’ self-esteem requires ongoing support from the same tutor, said Susanna Loeb, an education researcher at Stanford University. Those relationships, she said, allow students to take risks and work until they understand the material.

In the year since Cardona’s address, she said she’s seen real improvement in some district’s ability “to actually pull off harder, more intensive support for students.”

That’s partly due to her previous work at Brown University on the National Student Support Accelerator. The center summarizes important research about high-dosage tutoring — likely the inspiration, Loeb said, for Cardona’s prescription for “30 minutes per day, three days a week, with a well-trained tutor.”

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Chariot Learning

Chariot Learning builds its nationally respected test prep programs on the understanding that amazing teachers and motivated students can accomplish wonders together. We train highly experienced and effective teachers to implement our flexible SAT/ACT combo curriculum to tailor instruction based on where students begin and what their ultimate goals are. We specialize in 1-1 tutoring and small group (4-6 students) classes for either or both tests.

Rally Reader

Rally Reader is an AI-powered e-reading platform for K-12 schools that distributes, supports, and tracks independent reading data along with one-to-one tutoring. We have an array of oral and silent reading features embedded into 120,000+ popular ebooks. Students and teachers can track progress in the dashboard, practice trip words, warm-up with future predicted challenge words, and work towards conquering the 1,000 high frequency words in our word wiz game.

 

WEBINAR: Equity and Achievement Implications of On-Demand Tutoring

Join this webinar to better understand what drives effective tutoring and the recent research about On-Demand Tutoring from Carly Robinson, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. 

Dr. Robinson will be joined by LaMarlon J. Wilson, Executive Director of Instruction, Professional Development & Technology of the Mississippi Achievement School District, and Susanne Cramer, Executive Director of School Improvement of Omaha Public Schools to share the practical implications for successful implementation of tutoring in their districts.

The Inequity of Opt-in Educational Resources and an Intervention to increase Equitable Access

Billions of dollars are invested in opt-in educational resources to support struggling students. Yet there is no guarantee these students will use these resources. We report results from a school system’s implementation of on-demand tutoring. The take-up was low. At baseline, only 19% of students ever accessed the platform, and low-performing students were even less likely to log in. We conducted a randomized controlled trial (N = 4,763) testing behaviorally informed messages directed at students and/or their parents to increase participation.
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