Target tutoring equity by prioritizing underserved students and using culturally reflective curriculum and formative data¶

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Description¶

The brief's equity focus runs through all five profiled states: grant applications prioritizing rural, low-income, and students-of-color communities (Colorado); implementing tutoring in ways that affirm students' identities and solve longstanding inequities (Louisiana); curriculum reflecting students' cultural backgrounds (New Mexico); and prioritizing underserved students who may need more time to master skills or haven't received other academic supports (Tennessee). New Mexico's roadmap states that "Accelerated learning enables educators to connect unfinished learning with new ideas and new information, all while engaging with grade-level content and celebrating student cultural wealth."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Use formative assessment data to identify unfinished learning and target supports (New Mexico)
• Curriculum materials that reflect the experiences of all students

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Students of color
• Rural and low-income students
• Students who haven't received other academic supports

Target Learning Goals¶

• Closing opportunity gaps while accelerating grade-level content mastery

Related Strategies¶

• State education agencies build tutoring systems through guidance, workforce investment, professional development, vetted vendor hubs, and legislation
• State policy models for scaling high-impact tutoring: Colorado's non-competitive grant program and Louisiana's long-term Accelerate initiative
• Provide early, effective, targeted intensive intervention to disrupt persistent trajectories of reading difficulty
• Expand the pool of potential tutors rather than expanding group sizes when scaling tutoring to all students

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Promising Practices: Smart State Strategies for Building Intensive Tutoring Systems. (2022). Education Trust, Education Reform Now, and FutureEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED622839