Tutoring

Learn more about tutoring, an academic tool that provides students extra support outside normal class time
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Artificial Intelligence AI Tutors Are Now Common in Early Reading Instruction. Do They Actually Work?
AI reading tutors are only now being studied, and raise difficult questions about how to judge efficacy.
Sarah Schwartz, November 20, 2025
7 min read
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Student Achievement What the Research Says Why Hasn't Tutoring Been More Effective?
Recent studies of tutoring programs show small or no effects. Why?
Sarah Schwartz, November 18, 2025
6 min read
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Student Achievement High-Dosage Tutoring for 100K Kids: How a District Settled a Learning Loss Case
The nation's second-largest district agreed to tutoring and other measures to settle a case brought by parents during the pandemic.
Evie Blad, September 12, 2025
4 min read
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Student Achievement Professional Learning Guide Your Guide to Learning Recovery
An easy-to-use professional learning guide with strategies, tools, and resources to support recovery from learning loss.
August 18, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence Opinion Can an AI-Powered Tutor Produce Meaningful Results?
The key lessons educators should know to help students get the most out of this AI experience.
Rick Hess, July 29, 2025
7 min read
An illustration of hands on the keyboard of a laptop with a male educator writing a speech bubble on a green classroom chalkboard.
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English Learners Here's What Resources ESL Teachers Say Would Improve Their Morale
EdWeek Research Center survey data found two key priorities that could raise morale.
Ileana Najarro & Alex Harwin, July 25, 2025
3 min read
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Student Achievement Video One District’s Secret to Boosting Reading and Math Scores
For Metro Nashville Public Schools, high dosage tutoring implemented by staff and volunteers led to marked improvements in reading and math.
Kaylee Domzalski, July 16, 2025
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Members of the City Year program work at Isaac Newton Middle School for Math and Science in East Harlem during the MLK Day of Service on Jan. 20, 2025, in New York City.
Members of the City Year program work at Isaac Newton Middle School for Math and Science in East Harlem during the MLK Day of Service on Jan. 20, 2025, in New York City. City Year places AmeriCorps volunteers in underserved schools, but cuts to the federal service agency have led City Year to scale back some of its AmeriCorps volunteer-powered programs.
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Federal Tutoring, After-School, and Other Student Services at Risk as Trump Cuts AmeriCorps
Deep cuts to programs across the federal government have left students without programming they'd come to count on.
Brooke Schultz, June 6, 2025
8 min read
A group of high school girls work together to solve an algebra problem during their math class.
A group of high school girls work together to solve an algebra problem during their math class.
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Student Achievement Q&A How a Tutor’s Gender Affects Girls' Interest in STEM
Pairing girls with female math tutors increases STEM interest and improves academic performance in math, a Stanford study finds.
Lauraine Langreo, May 21, 2025
4 min read
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Student Achievement Opinion High-Dosage Tutoring Should Be Here to Stay
Research is piling up on the effectiveness of the academic intervention, including when it is scaled up.
Alan Safran & Susanna Loeb, May 14, 2025
4 min read
Student Achievement Webinar What Effective Tutoring Should Look Like—and Achieve
Join this webinar to learn how to sustain effective tutoring programs that help improve students' performance in reading and math.
May 12, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence Opinion AI Tutors Can Be Both a Help and a Hindrance in the Classroom, Explain Teachers
Chatbots are no silver bullet, and there's much to caution about them, but they do offer some promise.
Larry Ferlazzo, May 9, 2025
8 min read
Teacher tutoring a young student while sitting in a classroom.
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Student Achievement Tutoring Programs Are in Limbo After the Expiration of COVID Relief Aid
Some districts have had to terminate tutoring programs or scramble to find alternate sources of funding.
Olina Banerji, April 25, 2025
9 min read
Student Achievement K-12 Essentials Forum How to Build and Scale Effective K-12 State & District Tutoring Programs
Join this free virtual summit to learn from education leaders, policymakers, and industry experts on the topic of high-impact tutoring.
April 24, 2025