Nancy Waymack is the director of policy and partnerships at Stanford University’s National Student Support Accelerator. She said some states have designated funds for high-impact tutoring. Wisconsin does not. However, some school districts have focused on it using COVID-19 funding money.
Waymack said any time a school or district can designate time for students struggling with reading or math to one-on-one or small group time, it will help.
“There’s a really strong evidence base behind it,” Waymack said. “Especially since some students were not able to learn at the pace they might have otherwise during the pandemic, and certainly some students are just behind for a number of different reasons.”
The Wisconsin Reading Corps program is funded by the federal government and the state.
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