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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things.

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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

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Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising. But tutoring can work equally well even when the school day isn’t lengthened. What you do with the time matters.

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Parents feared Tennessee’s new reading law would hold back thousands of students. That didn’t happen

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Tennessee’s law was modeled after a much-praised literacy program in neighboring Mississippi that includes tutoring, improved literacy training for teachers and a retention policy for third graders who don’t pass its state test. Nearly 1,200 fourth grade students in the district are required to get tutoring interventions this year.

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OPINION: School leaders must come forward to help Latino students after the pandemic set back long-awaited progress

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Second, school leaders should accelerate learning — not just remediation — for students with unfinished learning by investing in high-dose tutoring and summer enrichment programs, mental health services and other research-based approaches proven to break down barriers and improve learning opportunities for Latinos.

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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

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We provided statewide access to training and tutoring for assessments in partnership with our teacher advocacy organizations and focused on building community among Black educators.

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Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

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Another provision allows students to move up a grade, as long as the school gives them tutoring for a full school year. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring. Children have been behind in literacy for decades,” said Sonya Thomas, the co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

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Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math.

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