• Tutoring providers serving mostly students of color and low-income students said effective high-dosage tutoring programs need the space, technology and staffing to support the supplemental instruction, according to a report released Monday by Accelerate, a nonprofit that aims to add and sustain high-impact tutoring in public schools, and Mathematica, a market research service.
• These anecdotal "lessons learned" come from eight of Accelerate's first cohort of 31 tutoring grantees. They touch on practical advice, such as scheduling, hiring and monitoring for effective tutoring programs.
• As states and school districts look for ways to scale-up and sustain high-impact tutoring programs to help students close pandemic-induced learning gaps, insights from tutoring providers can bring awareness to implementation hurdles and strategies for overcoming challenges, the report said.

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