Miami-Dade County Public Schools, University of Chicago Education Lab, and Accelerate Announce $9M Gift from Kenneth C. Griffin to Expand High-Dosage Tutoring

This work will be supported by a $9M philanthropic gift from Kenneth C. Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel and founder of Griffin Catalyst.

The gift will initially enable nine M-DCPS schools to collaboratively design, pilot, and expand in-school tutoring programs for students in grades 6, 7, and 8, with plans to include thousands more students in the upcoming years.

At the event, the following speakers shared remarks about the partnership and this initiative:

• Dr. Jose L. Dotres, Superintendent, M-DCPS
• Julia Quinn, Director of Philanthropy, Griffin Catalyst
• Dr. Sadie Stockdale Jefferson, Executive Director, Education Lab
• Dr. Monica Bhatt, Senior Research Director, Education Lab

Prior research from the Education Lab has shown the promise of high-dosage tutoring, which earned the endorsement of U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona last year. Building on prior research, this effort is part of the Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), an ambitious national initiative designed to help districts design, test, and scale high-dosage tutoring to address pandemic learning loss. The PLI is partnering with states and school districts across the country to engage tens of thousands of students in testing different versions of high-dosage tutoring to lower the cost and scale this proven intervention. Recently released preliminary results from the PLI are some of the first indications that high-dosage tutoring programs are working in the real world to reverse pandemic-era learning loss.

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