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To Combat Learning Loss, New Project Hopes to Test and Scale 'High Impact' Tutoring

Susanna Loeb, Professor of Education and Director of the Annenberg Institute, offers insight into the recently launched National School Support Accelerator, an initiative and research project focused on 'high impact' tutoring to combat learning loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last week, Brown University's Annenberg Institute for School Reform launched its National School Support Accelerator. This national project aims to address student learning needs and loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by providing "the tools and networking opportunities to incent and support education organizations to adopt high-impact tutoring at scale."

In this Education Week article, Professor Susanna Loeb says "We hope when this gets going it will be a place where tutoring organizations can see what other tutoring organizations are doing, where school systems see what is working, and where we can encourage continuous learning. We want to know how it can be really supportive of teachers and supplement what they're doing, and not conflict with what teachers are doing. And we really want to make sure that when it scales up, it scales up with quality."

To Combat Learning Loss, New Project Hopes to Test and Scale 'High Impact' Tutoring (comments by Susanna Loeb) — Education Week