Provides Michigan families with up to $1500 in Learning Loss Grants to be used on tutoring, summer courses, and certain educational supplies. Low-income students and families who have been most affected by school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic will be prioritized.
Supports Local Education Agencies (LEAs) with federal funding to address COVID-19 pandemic learning loss, opportunity and achievement gaps, and need of targeted support for historically underserved students and communities. Initiative is centered around seven “high-leverage strategies” and LEAs must select two strategies–based on their needs that they will implement utilizing the grant award. One of the high-leverage strategies includes “High-Quality School Day Tutoring.” LEAs can use grant funds to implement and improve high-quality tutoring at their sites.
During the two years that COVID-19 has upended school for millions of families, education leaders have increasingly touted one tool as a means of compensating for lost learning: personalized tutors. As a growing number of state and federal authorities pledge to make high-quality tutoring available to struggling students, a new study demonstrates positive, if modest, results from an experimental pilot that launched last spring.
Research shows that tutoring, particularly high dosage tutoring where students receive multiple 30- to 60-minute sessions per week, is effective in helping students who have fallen behind, according to a report from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University.