English Teachers Work to Instill the Joy of Reading. Testing Gets in the Way
Perrillo and Newman: The top-down pressure to measure up on test scores saps the time and energy needed to promote reading for pleasure. A new national study shows that Americans’ rates of reading for pleasure have declined radically over the first quarter of this century and that recreational reading can be linked to school achievement, career compensation and growth, […]
Advanced Teaching Roles Program Shows Improved Test Scores, but Faces Funding Concerns
Statistical analysis of the ’23-24 school year’s data found that students in ATR schools outperformed their peers in non-ATR schools in math & science North Carolina’s Advanced Teaching Roles program, which allows highly effective teachers to receive salary supplements for teaching additional students or supporting other teachers, is having positive effects on math and science test […]
The Future of School Accountability Isn’t More Testing
Nitkin: Only 29% of school leaders say accountability data helps them improve student outcomes, and half say testing makes it harder to innovate. State accountability systems were designed with good intentions: to ensure rigor and drive continuous student improvement. In the latest survey from The Canopy Project, a nationwide scan of nearly 200 leaders from some […]
In Maryland, a Multimillion-Dollar Push to Scale Up High Dosage Math Tutoring
Kicking off across three districts including Baltimore, a new grant program utilizes college students to boost middle schoolers’ scores, confidence. A model for high dosage math tutoring employing nearly 1,000 college and graduate students has taken root across Maryland, converting some into lifelong educators and providing middle schoolers with diverse mentors. Now in its first full academic […]
How Effective is Tutoring in The United States? 4 Essential Reads
The private tutoring market has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic. The private and in-schooling tutoring market in the United States has grown substantially since the COVID-19 pandemic. It helps that the U.S. Education Department has been offering US$220 million of funding since 2022 to help schools build tutoring programs to assist with pandemic-related learning losses. Meanwhile, certain school districts have invested in opt-in programs, in […]
Tutoring Giant’s Sudden Demise Linked to End of Federal Relief Funds
FEV Tutor was a ‘massive player’ in the field, once worth $40 million in contracts from California to Florida. On Saturday, it abruptly closed. One of the nation’s leading tutoring providers shut down abruptly over the weekend, temporarily leaving thousands of students without the extra support they’ve depended on since the pandemic. FEV Tutor, a […]
Why Hate Math?: Brooklyn Sisters’ Tutoring Co. Helps Kids Build STEM Identity
The pair, who work with children of all ages and ability levels in several Brooklyn neighborhoods, recently opened their first brick-and-mortar site. Two Brooklyn-born sisters who competed academically as kids and decided to go into business together have spent the past five years helping students build a strong STEM identity while keeping their math anxiety at […]
The Post-Pandemic Promise of High-Impact Tutoring
‘There’s something really powerful about bringing more people in to interact with young people,’ author Liz Cohen says in her new book As U.S. public schools emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, longtime education policy wonk Liz Cohen saw that in many places, educators were finally taking tutoring seriously. For a year and a half in […]
Dubbed Tutoring’s ‘Patient Zero,’ Boston’s Match High School Weathers Trump Cuts
Started 25 years ago, the renowned charter has thrived through community — and a commitment to staying small. Boston When they first walk into Match Charter Public High School, students confront a purely physical challenge: its steep marble staircase. Erected in 1917 as part of a three-story auto accessory and tire rim shop, it frames the […]
Lessons from a Failed Texas Tutoring Program
A suburban district’s experience with a virtual provider, experts say, reinforces the importance of sticking to a high-dosage tutoring model. By the fall of 2021, predictions of steep declines in students’ learning due to pandemic school closures had come true. Gaps between the highest and lowest learners were widening. That’s when a large suburban school district in Texas, flush […]