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Two Percent of U.S. Children Receive High Quality Tutoring, Despite Billions Funneled into School Systems
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Title
Two Percent of U.S. Children Receive High Quality Tutoring, Despite Billions Funneled into School Systems
Author
Amie Rapaport, Ph.D. and Daniel Silver, PhD
Publication Type
Online Posts
Outlet
The Evidence Base
Year
2023
Abstract
In the aftermath of Covid-related school closures and continued school disruptions through multiple academic years, there has been intense urgency to find ways to help students with unfinished learning or who continue to struggle to keep up. NAEP’s first large-scale, nationwide, analysis of student achievement post-Covid documented historically low performance and unprecedented declines, with widening (i.e., worsening) of achievement gaps. As EducationWeek called out, “Two decades of progress, nearly gone.”