Towards the Cliff We Go!

by Alexis Brown | Mar 22, 2023 | Funding, Tutoring Industry

What Happens When ESSER Funding Ends? One Year Ago In May of 2022, Pearl leadership attended the NSSA Conference at Brown with a sense of opportunity, excitement, and responsibility. 150 amazing people from every aspect of tutoring gathered to discuss the...

Pearl Joins Urban Leagues of Hampton Roads and Greater Richmond and Four HBCUs To Launch Virginia Governor’s Tutoring Programs

by Alexis Brown | Mar 7, 2023 | Community Partnerships, EdTech, News, Tutoring Industry

Tutor management and efficacy provider Pearl will manage and measurably scale tutoring to thousands of underserved middle and high school students Richmond, VA (March 7, 2023) – Pearl, the leading tutor intelligence and efficacy platform, today announced it has...

The Implications of Large Language Machine Learning Models in Tutoring

by Alexis Brown | Feb 23, 2023 | EdTech, Tutoring Industry, Tutors

Since ChatGPT was released to the public via OpenAI the education community has been in constant chatter about its implications for learning. A large language model is a machine learning system that uses vast amounts of data to generate human-like language and perform...

Breaking Down the 3 Benefits of District Partnerships in Higher Education

by Alexis Brown | Feb 16, 2023 | Assessments, Community Partnerships, Data, Students, Tutoring Industry, Tutors

Across the nation, Community Partnerships are forming, where HigherEd institutions partner with local K/12 school districts to provide evidence-based tutoring to younger students in their backyard. These partnerships offer states and districts an interesting...

Tutoring needs a standard approach to assessments

by Alexis Brown | Feb 9, 2023 | Assessments, Data, EdTech, Tutoring Industry, Tutors

The many variations across hundreds of tutoring RFPs Each year our public school districts issue hundreds of requests for proposals (RFPs) for high-impact tutoring support, but there is no standard approach to collecting feedback and assessments of the tutoring. Many...

Tutoring Program Designs Addressing The COVID Education Recovery

by Alexis Brown | Jan 23, 2023 | EdTech, Students, Tutoring Industry, Tutors

Various tutoring approaches are being implemented across the US to address learning loss.  The most common are high-impact tutoring, on-demand tutoring (sometimes referred to as homework help), and a hybrid model in which certain students in a program receive...