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...
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...
by Alexis Brown | Jan 18, 2023 | Tutoring Industry
What happened to Southwest Airlines? During the 2022 holiday, Southwest’s antiquated tool, SkySolver, and various internal processes collapsed. It was not a matter of broken software that caused this unforgettable meltdown. A strategy to deal with a disruptive...
by Alexis Brown | Jan 13, 2023 | EdTech, Tutoring Industry
By Christy M. Borders, Ed.D., Director, Illinois Tutoring Initiative, Illinois State University Original publication by EdTech Chronicle State leaders have their eyes on tutoring as a potential approach to counteract the academic effects of the pandemic...
by Alexis Brown | Dec 19, 2022 | EdTech, Tutoring Industry
Pearl – Community Partnerships While some state agencies, non-profits, and district leaders viewed the ARP-ESSER dollars as a stop-gap measure to learning loss, others developed programs that could help fundamentally change K-12 education. At Pearl, we refer to...
by Alexis Brown | Nov 7, 2022 | EdTech, Tutoring Industry
Pearl is excited to announce it has been awarded $250,000 in a competitive grant that will increase interoperability between tutor data and district systems via single-sign-on rostering and school-information-system integrations. Pearl will use the funding to support...
