by Pearl | 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 Pearl | 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...
by Pearl | May 16, 2022 | Tutoring Industry
The Department of Education recently announced details for this year’s Education Innovation and Research Program (EIR) that will award $160 million dollars to projects addressing educational challenges with evidence-based solutions that can be scaled to serve a larger...
by Nate Casey | May 5, 2022 | Tutoring Industry
In April 2022, the team at Pearl was excited to hear about the launch of Accelerate, a new nonprofit organization on a mission to embed high-impact tutoring programs in public schools across the US. With schools still struggling with widespread learning loss stemming...
by Pearl | Apr 29, 2022 | Tutoring Industry
So how are we going to find all those tutors we need? 2021 saw the birth of the so-called Great Resignation as, around the nation, workers fled jobs by the droves. Many businesses laid-off workers because of a lack of customers. Some workers used the opportunity to...
by Pearl | Apr 11, 2022 | Tutoring Companies, Tutoring Industry
Learning loss is one of the most alarming impacts of the pandemic as COVID-19 upended — and continues to disrupt — day-to-day life in communities around the world. Initially, the pandemic led schools to shutter their doors and attempt improvised distance learning....