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...
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 | 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 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...