- By Anna Nordberg
- Literacy
Could Tutoring Be the Best Tool for Fighting Learning Loss?
In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
Reading can change lives. “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. … When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror,” says Rudine Sims Bishop, a former professor at Ohio State University.
The trio of third graders at Tennessee’s Trousdale County Elementary School begin working on their multiplication tables as soon as they sit down for tutoring, quietly penciling in answers. Kelsey Harris, their math tutor, reminds them that this year they will need to know how to multiply all the numbers from zero to 10.
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