High-Dosage Tutoring Can Make a Real Difference. Harvard's Strategic Data Project Wants to Help Districts Make the Most Of It A new research tool aims to help district leaders and researchers evaluate tutoring programs

Here’s a goal we can stand behind: “To use data to expand access to effective tutoring in real schools around the country.” ICYMI, the Strategic Data Project, Accelerate, and five state DOEs have developed a toolkit to help achieve that goal. Read more here: www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable...

“Funding for High-Impact Tutoring” is a brief from National Student Support Accelerator that essentially brainstorms ideas for funding sources, and is divided into sections by target user. nssa.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

Evidence Viewpoint: Out with the Old, In with the Effective - JHU School of Education When was the last time you cleaned out your spice cabinet? If you’re like many people, there might be jars in there that haven’t been touched in years. Some of those spices may have lost their flavor, while others might never have been useful to begin with. Now, imagine cooking a meal for a group…

The school year will be winding down before you know it. Educators need to ask themselves if the programs they have adopted for tutoring are doing what they hoped. And what about next year? A point to reflect upon from a 2025 Evidence Viewpoint blog. education.jhu.edu/news/evidenc...

Screen Time in Schools: What Actually Matters for Student Learning As the screen time debate intensifies, this webinar offers a balanced look at research and classroom realities shaping student learning.

Don’t miss “Screen Time in Schools: What Actually Matters for Student Learning,” a webinar addressing the research on screen time and learning, Friday, April 10, 12-1 ET. To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/screen-tim...

Has the Practice of Redshirting Kindergartners Peaked? Holding kids back from kindergarten may be less popular than expected. Here's why.

Some parents delay their children’s entry into kindergarten: “ramped-up academic expectations and reduced playtime make many of today’s kindergarten classrooms feel more like yesterday’s 1st grade.” This practice is not as popular as it was. Find out why in this article from EdWeek: bit.ly/4sak4zW

How do tutors experience their work, and what keeps them engaged? Insights into the Tutor Workforce: Tutors’ Experiences, Diversity, and Retention in the Personalized Learning Initiative, a new brief from @mdrc-news.bsky.social DRC, sheds light on these questions. www.mdrc.org/sites/defaul...

Common Questions About Education Funding Education Week has answered some of the most common questions about education funding in the United States.

You can’t run a tutoring program without the funds to do it. Check out Education Week's article, “Common Questions About Education Funding.” www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

ProvenTutoring acceptance standards need to be met for a program to be featured on our site. See our FAQs. One example? Acceptable studies compare students who received tutoring during the school day to a similar control group of students who did not receive tutoring. proventutoring.org/faq/

Evidence Viewpoint: Did We do Better This Year? A Case for Cohort Designs as Meaningful Evidence of Program Efficacy - JHU School of Education What is considered as acceptable evidence of educational program effectiveness profoundly affects the interventions that make their way into today’s classrooms. Regardless of your role in using eviden...

“What is considered as acceptable evidence of educational program effectiveness profoundly affects the interventions that make their way into today’s classrooms.” The newest Evidence Viewpoint blog from CRRE discusses cohort designs as meaningful evidence. education.jhu.edu/news/evidenc...

“The challenge lies not in the concept of tutoring itself but in how it is implemented and scaled.” What aspects of tutoring influence its efficacy? Thoughts from Harvard’s Strategic Data Project. sdp.cepr.harvard.edu/news/2026/01...

Pearl Summit: March 24 from 12:00–2:30 PM ET
Tutoring Beyond ESSER: Building Scalable Student Support Systems
“Rather than revisiting the problem, the convening highlights practical approaches to building coordinated systems that hold up over time"
To register: bit.ly/4bq68LN

Implementing Virtual Tutoring with Quality | Research-to-Practice Webinar Series YouTube video by Everyone Graduates Center

Last summer, ProvenTutoring’s Amanda Neitzel was part of a panel discussing how to implement virtual tutoring effectively. Thank you, Partnership for Student Success, for posting this online!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m75O...

A blog from Pearl offers insight on how districts implement high-impact tutoring at scale. hubs.la/Q0450Cg_0

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A new study shows that full day preK versus half-day preK reduced ELL designations in students not fluent in English at the start of preK by up to 16 percentage points by grades K-3. Interesting implications for preventing students from needing tutoring! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In San Francisco, Short Bursts of High-Impact Tutoring Support Young Readers After working with tutors for five months last year, the number of students who met grade-level reading standards rose from 24% to 54%.

Happy to see this article talking about how Chapter One’s high-impact tutoring program is making a real difference in San Francisco! bit.ly/3OJRWW7

Synthesis: Accelerate’s 2024–25 Call to Effective Action What We’re Learning About Tutoring at Scale WHY THIS MATTERSOver the past three years, Accelerate has funded and evaluated tutoring and personalized learning programs across 29 states, supporting more...

Did you know that @accelerate-us.bsky.social ccelerate has provided funding and evaluated more than 50 rigorous studies of #tutoring over the past three years? What have they learned? Find out in this synthesis of useful insights: accelerate.us/cea-synthesis/

How Districts Can Fund High-Quality Tutoring Now That ESSER Money Is Gone Moon: Federal pandemic aid has dried up. But schools can look to government, state, local and nonprofit sources to keep these costly programs going.

Some ideas in the74 about tutoring funding post-ESSER: www.the74million.org/article/how-...

Congress Has Passed an Education Budget. See How Key Programs Are Affected Federal funding for low-income students and special education will remain level year over year.

Funding is one of the most critical factors for consideration when educational leaders choose what programs to adopt. The new education budget has been passed, and a handy chart from an article in EdWeek details what education programs were funded vs what was proposed: bit.ly/3OobEXb

Defining Tutoring Dosage for Program Implementation and Applied Research - Accelerate Accelerate

This research brief from (the always-forward-thinking!) @accelerate-us.bsky.social aims to standardize definitions of tutoring dosage and then apply them to measure tutoring efficiency and cost-effectiveness. accelerate.us/research/def...

San Francisco USD has received funds to deliver Chapter One, a member of the ProvenTutoring Coalition, to 1,443 additional students, bringing the total up to 2700 kids. SFUSD’s goal? 70% of 3rd graders reading at grade level by 2027 (from 50% right now). sfedfund.org/news/high-im...

Recent research found that attendance was higher on days that students had high-impact tutoring scheduled. Human tutors provide a connection that increases engagement and the simple joy a student feels when they learn from someone they like and trust. nssa.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

The Impressive Effects of Tutoring on PreK-12 Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Research has found that tutoring during the school day is more effective than tutoring at other times. As one example of this research, NBER reached that conclusion in a meta-analysis of tutoring program effects. www.nber.org/papers/w27476

A quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?” At ProvenTutoring we think of the tutors who devote their time, hearts, energy, and intellect to help students reach their potential, and for whom service is a way of life.

5 Popular Education Beliefs That Aren’t Backed by Research Making adjustments to these common misconceptions can turn dubious strategies into productive lessons, the research suggests.

“5 Popular Education Beliefs That Aren’t Backed by Research.” Plus the research disproving these research beliefs! Food for thought from @edutopia.org. bit.ly/3LtxIih

Designing a new tutoring model? The updated Tutoring Quality Improvement Systems standards nssa.stanford.edu/tqis/quality... offer a thoughtful roadmap. Use these as a starting point and pair them with ongoing evaluation to understand what works in your context. #ProgramDesign #EdInnovation #TQIS

A Kaleidoscope View of K–12 Tutoring in America What has happened to tutoring since the COVID pandemic? Who’s using tutoring in 2025, who has access to it?

A recent summary of national surveys on tutoring from EdChoice highlights factors around tutoring demand, usage, and accessability, both in and out of school. www.edchoice.org/2025-a-kalei...

By Communicating Better With Families, Our North Carolina District Builds Trust Educators' view: Parents don’t expect flawless wording in messages from school; they want honesty, clarity and care. It's how we create connection.

“Great communication isn’t about perfection — it’s about connection.” At the heart of strong family and school partnerships is connection. Great article about how one district focused on care, clarity, and consistency when communicating with families. www.the74million.org/article/by-c...

“Making Evidence Work: How Research Drives Real Literacy Gains”, a joint webinar featuring researchers from CRRE (home of ProvenTutoring!) & Capit Learning, Jan 15 4 pm EST. Discussions on identifying, interpreting, applying evidence to improve student literacy: www.capitlearning.com/literacy-tal...

K–12 data leadership: Be the change for your school community - Teach. Learn. Grow. K–12 data leadership can be challenging. Data is essential but can also feel like a necessary evil if you’re not empowered to use it well.

Flashback Friday: Last year, @nwea.bsky.social published a blog about how to become a “data person,” a skill that is essential for tutors. The blog described one ed leader’s journey to becoming data focused, and outlined steps to help educators become “data people.” www.nwea.org/blog/2024/k-...