For the first time, the Department included High-Impact Tutoring as a dedicated Competitive Preference Priority. The result: 11 funded projects center on high-impact tutoring, representing nearly $130 million across 15+ states and tribal nations.
After convening 135+ stakeholders, one thing became clear – there is significant remaining distance between a promising statute and a program that actually delivers results to students.
This inagural GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar for 2025, brought together leading voices in education to talk about what the world of education and kids policy might look like in the wake of the recent elections.
The 2024 election is finally behind us. But what do the results mean for education policy in the years ahead? And what are voters telling us they want from education leaders and policymakers?
Acknowledging that the implementation and scaling of high-impact tutoring faces a number of barriers such as cost, the panelists discussed how philanthropy was well positioned to help overcome some of those barriers and shared a range of resources that funders and their education partners could leverage to support tutoring.
Balfanz & Huffman: Volunteers have been key to helping students recover from pandemic learning losses through tutoring, fighting chronic absenteeism.
As the federal stimulus package—ESSER—winds down, states are racing against the clock to find other sustainable funding sources to keep tutoring alive in their schools.
Accelerate’s new State Field Guide offers a blueprint for state leaders seeking to champion high-dosage tutoring in their state.
Huffman: It’s especially difficult to reach high school students via tutoring, who arguably should be our top priority given how little time they have.
While tutoring, chronic absenteeism and extra-learning time are shared priorities, some point to an “urgency gap” between educators and parents.
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