Virtual tutoring is here to stay. New research points to ways to make it better.
First and second grade students at Milwaukee College Prep work one-on-one with tutors from Open Literacy during an in-school virtual tutoring session. (Erica Badger / Milwaukee College Prep) Three times a week, the young students struggling the most with reading at each of Milwaukee College Prep’s four campuses go to a dedicated classroom, don their […]
OnYourMark Tutoring Boosts Student Success at Live Oak Learning Center
Thanks to a powerful partnership between Rockport-Fulton ISD and OnYourMark Education, students at Live Oak Learning Center are achieving significant gains in literacy — and their success stories are inspiring the entire community. This spring, OnYourMark’s targeted tutoring program provided two-on-one reading support to first- and second-grade students who were struggling to meet grade-level benchmarks. […]
The Tailored Support of Virtual Tutoring
Research substantiates the effectiveness of remote intervention in boosting student achievement systemwide While still in the early stages, research at Johns Hopkins University on virtual tutoring suggests students can benefit academically from use of the proper model and with effective implementation. PHOTO COURTESY OF ACCELERATE Student achievement in mathematics and reading has not returned to […]
America’s Early Childhood Literacy Crisis
America is facing a literacy crisis. Our youngest students are falling behind, with only 47% of kindergarten students reading at grade level during the 2021-2022 school year. Pandemic school closures exacerbated the problem, but these challenges predate COVID-19. In the 2019-2020 school year, just 55% of kindergarteners were on track. But a new model of […]
The Promise (and Challenges) in Scaling High-Dosage Tutoring to Combat COVID Learning Losses
Tutoring—an old education practice that historically was only available to affluent kids—raced to the forefront of public consciousness in the last two years as a way to catch all kids up after the pandemic’s learning disruptions. There’s strong evidence behind an intervention now called “high-impact tutoring,” defined as individualized or small- group instruction during the […]
10 Education Studies You Should Know From 2023
PROOF POINTS: Four lessons from post-pandemic tutoring research
Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. There have been a hundred randomized control trials, but one of the most cited is of a tutoring program in Chicago high schools, where ninth and 10th graders learned an extra year or two of math from […]
Accelerate’s First Call to Effective Action: A Synthesis of Lessons Learned
In spring 2022, Accelerate launched its Call to Effective Action (CEA) grant program and awarded more than $10 million to 31 partners to develop, scale, and evaluate sustainable, cost-effective tutoring models that could boost academic achievement for students. On average, the tutoring providers in our CEA grant portfolio supported a high proportion of students of […]
14 Charts that Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2023
For K–12 education, 2023 was a year spent over a threshold. Schools had one foot in the shutdown era, still struggling to restore a sense of normalcy that disappeared in 2020. A steep rise in behavioral and disciplinary issues, which many teachers hoped would be only the temporary product of COVID’s generational disruption to routines, […]
Closing the Gap in Reading Capabilities
An evidence-based, virtual tutoring program that provides students with dedicated, personalized guidance to develop the reading skills that will set students up for future success. CREATING EARLY LITERACY OPPORTUNITIES The OnYourMark program, a project of Cambiar Education, provides high-quality virtual tutoring that focuses on building and strengthening the early literacy skills of students. OnYourMark partners with […]