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New Report Shares Promising Practices for Implementing High-Dosage Tutoring in American Schools

Accelerate and Mathematica release a new report summarizing best practices and lessons learned from their first cohort of Call to Effective Action grantees, including Once.

On December 18, our partners at Accelerate released a new report with Mathematica that summarizes best practices and lessons learned from their first cohort of Call to Effective Action grantees — including us!

Implementing high-dosage tutoring programs remains a challenge for many school districts nationwide, but we and many other organizations are finding effective ways to overcome difficulties like tutor recruitment and retention, scheduling, and curriculum alignment.

Read the full report here.

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