In April, New Mexico launched a tutoring effort with all the “high-impact” elements experts say lead to success: small groups, led by a trained tutor for 90 minutes of instruction spread throughout the week.....

.....One reason New Mexico leaders ultimately changed course is that they saw proof that districts had succeeded in blending tutoring into the school day.

Ten Las Cruces schools participated in a program this past school year with Tutored by Teachers, a virtual model led by credentialed educators. Students who were a grade level or more behind gained roughly twice as much learning as those who didn’t get tutoring, leading the district to invite the provider back this fall, said co-founder Rahul Kalita.....

.....Further evidence on in-school tutoring comes from [an MDRC] study on a virtual model that has helped prepare over 500 New Mexico middle school students for high school algebra. The program, continuing this fall, is used in large districts like Chicago, Miami-Dade and Fulton County, Georgia. In New Mexico, the effort includes 19 districts, many of them small and isolated, like Tatum Municipal Schools.....

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