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NAEP Scores Show a Long Road to Academic Recovery. Edtech Can Help Shorten It.

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Recent headlines suggest it will take until 2028 for students to recover from these pandemic-related achievement declines. Scale Tutoring for the 1:1 Experience Scaled tutoring strategies can save teachers from needing to be in 30 places at once delivering 30 unique and personalized lessons. Others say it will take decades.

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Writing a College Essay That Stands Out

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Class of 2028 supplemental essay prompt. Students without the means to pay for private college essay tutors or workshops are left to learn the basics of narrative writing on their own, and often too late. The prompt asks applicants to, “Tell us about an aspect of your identity (e.g. race, gender, sexuality, religion, community, etc.)

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What Students From Rural Communities Think College Leaders Should Know

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Betley reports that STARS schools extended more than 11,000 offers of admission to the Class of 2028, which was a 12.9 But then she started going to office hours and the tutoring center, which bolstered her confidence. The work is already paying off. I was incredibly, incredibly nervous to get to SMU and start classes,” she remembers.