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Once is an evidence-based reading program (tested to the gold standard of a randomized controlled trial) that parents, peers, paraprofessionals and volunteers use in school and at home to teach 3-7 year-olds how to read fluently and independently. The adult, seated side-by-side next to the child, spends 15 minutes per day providing instruction in front of a laptop, phone or tablet. The curriculum and instructional script are displayed on the screen and adapt in response to feedback the adult provides on what the adult hears the child say.

Students attend R1SE for 2-5 days after school. We use data driven programs for assessments and a direction to begin. Our certified educator led programs offer 1-on-1 tutoring as well as small group instruction (<5 students). During our sessions, we not only strengthen weaknesses, but we build upon strengths, build confidence, and instill success habits.

Andromeda Education provides one-on-one online math tutoring to students from vulnerable communities, from 7th-grade Pre-Algebra through Algebra 2 and Trigonometry.

Atlas Alcor Alliance provides personalized virtual tutoring and academic support for Pre-K to 12 students, including students with learning differences, unique abilities, and homeschooling needs. Services include reading, mathematics, homework assistance, study skills, test preparation, and executive functioning support. Through individualized instruction and structured learning strategies, students work to strengthen foundational skills, address academic challenges, improve organization and time management, and build lasting confidence and independence.

Florida Test Prep is a Florida-based company providing live online SAT preparation for high school students in Tampa and across the country. Programs include group classes and private coaching on Zoom, diagnostic assessments, targeted practice, and full-length practice tests. Families can book a free strategy session to discuss their student's preparation plan. Tutors include both employees and contractors. The minimum required tutor education is a Bachelor of Science degree.

Personalized Literacy Assessment

Before instruction begins, our professional literacy team individually evaluates each child’s strengths, reading levels, and needs in literacy components including phonological awareness, decoding, spelling, fluency, comprehension, writing, and academic success skills using nationally recognized research-based tools.

You’ll receive a detailed report explaining your child’s reading strengths and areas for growth, along with a personalized plan for instruction.

Individualized Instruction

Prestige With Solutions Inc. provides comprehensive SAT & ACT test preparation for students in grades 9–12 across 6 campuses in NJ, NY, and GA, plus online. The program combines instructor-led sessions (2–3 hrs/week) with TA-guided practice problems (2–3 hrs/week).

Reading Results partners with schools to identify early-grade students who are falling behind in reading and provides student-centered, individualized reading support. Our highly trained tutors (licensed teachers and members from the school community) deliver a culturally-responsive program designed to accelerate literacy and foster an academic mindset. Tutors meet 1:1, 1:2, or 1:3 with struggling readers for 30 minutes, three times per week throughout the school year.

Academically, high-impact tutoring is deemed the optimal model for early educational intervention. Stanford University's National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA) explains how this model can help a wide range of students, even those who are academically far behind.

High-impact tutoring is a process that involves tutors, instruction, integrated learning, data use, equity, safety, and cohesion. This makes it expensive for most schools and families. As a result, far fewer students gain access to high impact tutoring than could benefit.

Even as students in Arkansas and across the nation struggle to recover from a "learning recession" that began more than a decade ago, a Stanford University researcher says parents should feel good about their children's access to quality tutoring.

Federal pandemic aid for schools dried up in the years following the initial COVID-19 outbreak, but many states have kept up tutoring efforts that were launched at the time, according to Nancy Waymack, director of partnerships and policy for the National Student Support Accelerator at Stanford.

"As the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief dollars went away, we were concerned that tutoring might go away with them," Waymack said. "That wasn't really what we found."

Waymack, who grew up in Arkadelphia, is among the authors of a new snapshot report published Wednesday on tutoring policies in the United States. The report praises many states, including Arkansas, for maintaining strong investments in funding high-impact tutoring, implementation support and policy following the expiration of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, a pot of money Congress made available to states through a series of stimulus bills in 2020 and 2021.

FuseLit's School High-Impact Tutoring (HIT) Program serves K–12 students across Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. through structured tutoring in Math, Reading, and Writing. Tutoring is delivered both in person at school partner sites and virtually.

The program meets NSSA HIT standards through consistent dosage, small group sizes of four or fewer, vetted instructional materials, and session-level data collection. Each cycle is designed to support measurable student growth over time. 

A+ Tutoring is a California-based virtual tutoring provider offering high-dosage, personalized tutoring in reading, writing, and math for K–12 students. Sessions are delivered 1:1 and in small groups, multiple times per week, in structured multi-week program cycles. We partner with charter schools and families to serve a diverse student population, including English learners and students with IEPs, supported by trained tutors, structured session design, and ongoing quality review.

Intensive tutoring is supposed to be one of the most effective routes to raise student achievement. But it doesn’t always work out that way.

While meta-analyses of studies on high-dosage tutoring programs find big, positive impacts on learning, it’s often challenging for districts to implement these time- and labor-intensive initiatives in practice. Recent studies of post-pandemic tutoring programs have shown smaller-than-expected gains, or even no student improvement at all.

Could a lighter touch tutoring program be easier for schools to maintain, and still move the needle on student achievement? One new study suggests yes.

The paper comes from researchers at the National Student Support Accelerator, a program of the SCALE Initiative at Stanford University that studies high-impact tutoring. They tested a tutoring intervention called Chapter One, in which part-time tutors delivered 5-10 minute lessons throughout the school day, while students were still in their regular classrooms.

The end of Varsity Tutors for Schools follows the abrupt termination of another large provider, FEV Tutor, in early 2025 as relief funds dried up. But tutoring experts say this shutdown is not just another example of districts running out of extra federal money. In fact, multiple states, like Louisiana and Massachusetts, now provide ongoing funding for high-impact tutoring, including virtual models. With districts increasingly demanding strong results, Varsity Tutors for Schools, they say, wasn’t able to deliver proof that their services increased student performance.

For-profit providers, like Nerdy, have to answer to investors and shareholders. But regardless of the business model, those “that adhere closely to the research are going to be the ones that are more likely to have stronger outcomes,” said Kathy Bendheim, strategic advising director at the National Student Support Accelerator, a tutoring research center at Stanford University. 

High-impact tutoring (HIT), or high-dosage tutoring, is widely endorsed by educational leaders, advocates, and researchers to help improve outcomes for students. HIT is defined by several key components, all of which have been employed by Read Alliance since its inception (and long before the terminology of “high-impact tutoring” or “high-dosage tutoring” was defined and in use):

• Frequent (3+ times per week)
• Small group size (no more than four students per tutor, with one-to-one tutoring as the preferred model)
• Targeted instruction focused on specific skills or learning gaps, and designed to complement classroom instruction
• Led by trained instructors who receive ongoing support and oversight
• Consistent tutor-student relationship that fosters a strong connection over time

These components are largely attributed to Stanford University’s National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA), in which Read Alliance (READ) is listed as a vetted provider which means the READ model meets their standards for excellence widely recognized as the “stamp of approval” for HIT programming.

We employ passionate tutors who believe in equal access to education. Our tutors specialize in subjects ranging from math and science to test prep, and special education. We only tutor elementary & middle school students as of now and have specialized focused on the underprivileged community. Tutoring is available both in-person and online! In order to apply, you need to be in high school or above (e.g. university) and meet certain criteria as well as show proof of your mastery in the subject you would like to tutor (e.g. transcript, certificate).

Southeast Community Foundation provides high-dose/high-impact tutoring services to the students of Los Angeles who need help catching up, especially after the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our 10-week programs include tutoring sessions of up to 4 additional hours a week, are built on research-based methods, and are tailored to each student’s needs. We work with schools and school districts to identify students who can most benefit from our targeted approach. These programs are provided to students at no cost to their families.

Dojo Tutor connects kids with experienced, caring teachers for 1-on-1 and small-group online tutoring in reading, math, and more. Every session is built around the child’s unique needs so learning feels supportive, engaging, and effective. It's personalized online tutoring that helps kids build skills, confidence, and a love of learning.

The Mindful Learning Co. offers tutoring and academic coaching for students of all ages, teaching students to deeply understand concepts, rather than rotely memorize steps. We also help students create personalized organizational systems and work with them to tackle mindset and confidence issues that contribute to procrastination, lack of motivation, test-taking anxiety, etc. This is what makes Mindful Learning Co. different.

WRAP, Writing Reading Achievement Program, is a speech-to-print approach to high-impact tutoring for the development and remediation of reading and writing skills.

Math Exceed was founded by experienced math teachers from Hewlett, NY. Drawing on years of real classroom teaching experience, we offer one-on-one math tutoring and group lessons to high school students. Our online sessions help make learning accessible to students across the USA. We emphasize learning through instructional clarity and confidence building. Students studying algebra, geometry, calculus, or any other high school math class are eligible to enroll in our program. The interactive sessions provide a conducive setting for students to ask questions and master the topic at hand.

What is the most important variable in high-impact tutoring?

The humans in the school building.

Not the platform. Not the model. Not the contract.

The human who makes sure a student gets to their session. The human who notices when the student isn’t progressing and asks why. The human who, on a Wednesday morning when everything else is pulling at them, still notices the quiet grimace of a student who doesn’t understand, and offers another way in.

Every year, ambitious high school students start planning their journeys to college. At World Class Tutoring, we consider it an honor and a privilege to walk with you on this journey. We know you are going to amazing places and are proud to help you along the way!

Sharp is a mobile and web-based SAT prep platform that adapts to each student's level from the first question. It identifies the specific skills holding a student's score back, delivers targeted practice using expert-crafted questions, and provides step-by-step explanations through an AI tutor when students get stuck. For students working with a tutor or college counselor, Sharp gives them access to the student's data so they can monitor progress, review mistakes, and provide targeted instruction.

Bilingual Bridges implements a High-Impact Tutoring (HIT) program designed to accelerate academic growth and close learning gaps through personalized, standards-based instruction, delivered virtually in 15+ languages.

I’m Kate, an educator with eleven years of experience in teaching K–12 & college humanities subjects. I hold an MA in Anthropology and have recently served as an administrator at a local college preparatory school, building bespoke plans for college-bound students. I’ve also tutored high-achieving students in person in the Greater Seattle area & Bay Area for five years.

Empowering Readers OC is a flagship literacy initiative of Parentis Foundation designed to improve reading outcomes for students in 1st–5th grade who are not yet reading proficiently. The program delivers high impact tutoring by pairing trained older adult volunteers with young learners for consistent, one-on-one reading sessions that build fluency, comprehension, and confidence.

The Canopy Tutoring Program provides high-impact academic support in literacy and math for K–12 students across Louisiana. Designed to complement what students are learning in the classroom, the program uses research-based instructional strategies and high-quality curriculum aligned with state standards. Students work in small groups or one-on-one with trained Louisiana educators who deliver targeted instruction based on each learner’s needs. Sessions focus on building strong foundational skills—in reading and math—while reinforcing classroom learning.

Aristotle is a voice-first AI tutoring platform for students aged 13–18, marketed directly to parents. Students engage in real-time spoken conversations with an AI tutor that uses a multi-agent architecture, interactive whiteboard, and Socratic questioning to guide genuine understanding rather than provide answers. The platform currently supports AP-level coursework and is designed around the research behind Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem—that one-on-one tutoring dramatically outperforms classroom instruction.