Mar 2024

Personalized Learning Initiative Research Brief

Sadie Stockdale Jefferson

Learn more below about the Personalized Learning Initiative, which builds upon our decade of research on high dosage tutoring to scale to students nationwide.

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The latest report by the PLI research team shows positive impacts from many types of tutoring–both more and less expensive tutoring models–across the country. These interim findings ought to encourage the field to stay the course in implementing high dosage tutoring, while improving dosage to yield greater learning gains for students.

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Accelerate CEO Kevin Huffman and Education Lab executive director Sadie Stockdale Jefferson penned an op-ed that calls for doubling down on investing in tutoring programs as federal aid winds down and academic gaps persist five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.