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Tutoring Is the Teacher Pipeline We’ve Been Missing Hooten: High-dosage tutoring delivers more than academic gains. It could redefine how we bring the next generation of educators into classrooms.

ICYMI: Read more about @teachforamerica.bsky.social, a former Accelerate grantee, in this piece by Katie Tennessen Hooten, founder and senior vice president of Teach for America’s Ignite Fellowship, in @the74.bsky.social.

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Whether you’re a researcher, district leader, policymaker, or tutoring provider, this toolkit offers actionable resources to support impactful, high-dosage tutoring. Learn more and download today! sdp.cepr.harvard.edu/high-dosage-...

📣 Congratulations to Accelerate's 2025 awardees for our Call for Effective Technology and Evidence for Impact grant programs!
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'It's working.' Trump education secretary Linda McMahon visits Louisiana, praises reading gains U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited Baton Rouge on Monday, the first stop on a cross country "Returning Education to the States" tour.

Our partners at LDOE continue to show how evidence-based education practices & effective state-level partnerships can improve student outcomes. In LA, HDT scaled by state funding has produced unprecedented literacy gains.
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Tracking DOGE Cuts: Pulling Back the Curtain on Terminated Education Contracts and What’s Next We discuss how our team’s in-depth reporting is uncovering the scale of DOGE’s education department cuts and how it will shape the market over the next few years.

TODAY: @edmarketbrief.bsky.social will be hosting a webinar, "Tracking DOGE Cuts: Pulling Back the Curtain on Terminated Education Contracts and What’s Next" featuring Accelerate's Managing Director of Research and Evaluation, Matthew P. Steinberg.

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If the Money Moves, the Metrics Must, Too Godfrey: Conservatives pride themselves on demanding receipts, progressives on demanding equity. Without national metrics, both lose their yardstick.

📊 Check out the latest opinion piece from Jason Godfrey, PhD in @the74.bsky.social

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#GLRWeek 2025 will spotlight new strategies for expanding the tutoring workforce. 7/29 @ 3pm ET, join DFI's VP of External Affairs @psteck.bsky.social + @accelerate-us.bsky.social @nssaccelerator.bsky.social @njtutoringcorps.bsky.social @ps-success.bsky.social UChicago + Overdeck bit.ly/44yT04C

Three Districts Took the Long View with Federal Relief Funds. Their Bets Are Paying Off EdSurge talked to three districts that are seeing gains despite the emergency funds’ expiration.

@the74.bsky.social highlighted efforts in Guilford County Schools to sustain high-dosage tutoring after students recovered much faster than their peers in large U.S. cities.

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Introducing the Call for Effective Technology: Accelerate's Next Chapter in Evidence-Building Grantmaking - Accelerate Accelerate

We know that rigorous research reveals what works—our role is to create the conditions necessary for rapid and widespread adoption of proven strategies. Learn more about the Call for Effective Technology, Accelerate's expansion into ed tech and AI tools.
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📣 Announcing Accelerate’s newest grant opportunity, the Call for Effective Technology!

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Our Advice for States Developing AI in Education Policies - The Learning Agency States must craft policies for AI. The more tailored the guidance can be to the actual use of AI the more helpful it will be. Here's our advice.

💡 Interesting article for states looking for guidance around AI policies from @thelearningagency.bsky.social.

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Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning?

💡 ICYMI: Excellent piece by @danagoldstein.bsky.social

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Accelerate's 2023-24 Call to Effective Action: A Synthesis of Lessons Learned - Accelerate Accelerate

📣 Check out the latest report from Accelerate and @mathematicanow.bsky.social describing lessons learned from eight tutoring providers who have utilized a variety of approaches and contexts to scale up high-dosage tutoring with school partners across the country.
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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.

“This happens in education programming a lot. There’s money for something, we say we’re going to do it, the money runs out, and we don’t have a way to continue things that work."

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Many CBOs & schools are securing fall's tutoring partnership. Now is the time to prepare: are you aligned on goals and how tutoring will fit in the schoolday? The ProvenTutoring & @accelerate-us.bsky.social “Guide for Implementing an Impactful Tutoring Model” can help: accelerate.us/wp-content/u...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: GLR Learning Tuesdays. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. GLR Learning Tuesdays affirms CGLR's commitment to get better at getting better by learning with and from each other. We are using these webinars as a portal through which to access and explore the be...

Did child policy predictions hold true? Join this discussion hosted by the Campaign for Grade Level Reading on April 22, 3–4:30 pm ET for a follow-on from the 1/7 post-election session. @kevinhuffman.bsky.social @deniseedtrust.bsky.social @brizardjc.bsky.social

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States, lawmakers push back on ‘abrupt and chaotic’ reversal of COVID funds The Education Department ended ESSER late liquidation, months after many states had received preapproval from the Biden administration.

“Maybe the new approval process will allow the department to have a higher confidence rate that these funds are being spent on activities like tutoring that ensure academic recovery.” - Narric Rome

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Evidence-Based Education Policy Research | Live Handbook Explore evidence-based education policy research at our digital hub. Access data-driven insights to improve learning outcomes and shape effective policies.

We're eager to dive in to this great resource on education policy: livehandbook.org. Thank you to @aefpweb.bsky.social for putting it together and to @the74.bsky.social for featuring.

📣 We're accepting letters of interest for our newest grant program, Evidence for Impact. This highly selective opportunity will fund organizations ready to fill these HDT research gaps. Learn more here: accelerate.us/efi-applicat...

Former Tennessee education official discusses order to dismantle Education Department NPR's A Martinez speaks with Kevin Huffman, a former Tennessee commissioner of education, about President Trump's executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

📣 @kevinhuffman.bsky.social shared thoughts about President Trump's executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Thank you @npr.org and @amartinezla.bsky.social for your coverage!

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The Case for Doubling Down on Tutoring, a Proven Solution We Can’t Afford to Lose Huffman and Jefferson: Tutoring isn’t just an investment in students – it’s an investment in our country’s future.

📰 Check out this piece in @the74.bsky.social by Accelerate's CEO, @kevinhuffman.bsky.social and @Sadie Stockdale Jefferson, PhD, Executive Director at University of Chicago Education Lab.

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Proud to be partnering with UF Lastinger Center for Learning!

“Accelerate and the Lastinger Center are dedicated to data-driven outcomes that lead to continuous improvement in the services we offer Florida students,” said Senate President Ben Albritton.

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⚜️ We're really pleased to see the Louisiana Board of Elementary & Secondary Education proposing $30 million for the statewide Accelerate Tutoring program. It's a great boost of the HDT strategy that helped propel Louisiana's academic recovery even further. Congrats to LDOE and LA Kids Matter!

📊 In the face of weak national results, some states are bucking the trends. Overwhelmingly, these states use high-dosage tutoring as a key strategy to drive student outcomes.

Conducting Cost Analysis of Tutoring Interventions: A Guide for Program Providers and Researchers  - Accelerate Accelerate

💡 ICYMI: With student achievement declining & pandemic-era aid winding down, educators & policymakers must ask, “Is it worth it?” when evaluating interventions. Our new report introduces a game-changing Cost Tool to help analyze the value of tutoring programs. accelerate.us/cost-tool/

Here’s What Makes Tutoring Work for Academic Recovery Tutoring can help boost student achievement, but there are concerns about how to scale it.

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#StateofHDT2025!
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📖 Post-pandemic learning loss calls for structured, research-driven tutoring initiatives like those in TN, LA, and other states.

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A bold state move to improve reading When I started teaching in Louisiana in 2004, I was told that the state was expanding annual assessments of students to all grades 3–8 because Louisiana ranked forty-ninth in the country for reading p...

Interesting piece by Emily Freitag on how Mississippi managed technical assistance centrally at the SEA: fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

How States Can Soften the Fall From the Fiscal Cliff - Accelerate The 74

Check out the latest from Harvard's Thomas Kane and Accelerate's Jason Godfrey, PhD! ⤵️

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Now more than ever the education field must focus its attention on identifying educational interventions that have the greatest return on investment.

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