High-dosage tutoring is one way the state is trying to improve literacy rates.

High-dosage tutoring proving valuable to help kids catch up

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Tutoring often is misunderstood as someone helping a student with their homework. It’s much more than that, said Dorrell Green, superintendent of Red Clay Consolidated School District. Effective tutoring involves concentrated instruction, hiring reading specialists and coaches and spending time in and out of the classroom to improve.  Red Clay’s Lewis Elementary School has been experimenting with high-dosage tutoring techniques …

Hundreds of Christina students receive tutoring for learning loss

Jarek RutzEducation, Headlines

  Christina School District is using federal COVID-19 money to hire tutors for two years to help its students catch up. Photo by Ralston Smith/Unsplash   Over 600 students in Christina School District are taking part in a district-wide one-on-one virtual tutoring program to help them climb the ladder of proficiency in math and reading. The results: About 60% of …