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As New Jersey students recover from pandemic learning loss, Katherine Bassett believes high-impact tutoring is the best way to improve math and literacy skills. Bassett, chief executive officer of the New Jersey Tutoring Corps, said high-impact tutoring is needed for students — particularly in high poverty areas that are often understaffed and under-resourced. “It helps […]

When Accelerate launched as a nonprofit nearly two years ago, we entered the somewhat nascent space of high-dosage tutoring at a very particular moment. Coming out of the pandemic, schools and policymakers understood that many students were behind in core academic subjects and that gaps between wealthier and lower-income young people had grown throughout the […]

At a desk wedged between a hallway vent and a classroom door, Marge Mangelsdorf coaxed Harlan to write down what he remembered. The two had just finished reading Hi! Fly Guy, a popular children’s book about a boy and his pet bug. Now it was time for Harlan, a first grader at Bayless Elementary School […]