The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
In 2019, a year before Brown Wright was hired, less than 20 percent of students were proficient on the school’s reading assessments, the principal said. Amira is the namesake of an AI reading program that aims to improve reading ability by giving kids a personal literacy assistant and tutor. Credit: Amira Learning.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 1, 2023
One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. The problem is that this kind of frequent tutoring is very expensive and it’s impossible to hire enough tutors for the millions of American public school students who need help.
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ED Surge
MARCH 4, 2025
While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. With new technologies and opportunities for help outside the classroom, like private tutoring or AI, wealthier students are often better equipped than their peers to enter college.
ED Surge
JANUARY 29, 2025
The last couple of years saw ample spending on tutoring in a rush to course-correct student performance. During a call, Carr noted that these declines continue trends that predate the pandemic, going back to 2019. Unsurprisingly, these struggling students are less likely to read for pleasure and less likely to show up to school.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Nationwide, student reading scores on the widely used Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP, dipped three to six percentile points in 2021 compared to 2019. For example, the state is paying for an expansion of a program to provide high-dosage tutoring for students who have the most academic needs.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 30, 2022
That focus, combined with other strategies like longer math periods and tutoring, has helped Northside Middle’s students bounce back from learning losses during the pandemic more quickly than middle schoolers in many other districts, teachers and administrators here say. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
It is paying off: Over a five-year span ending in 2019, the number of students reading at grade level in the district grew at a rate that outpaced the state as a whole. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. READ THE SERIES. 1 in the nation for growth in reading.
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