While students are starting to regain academic ground, months of disrupted learning during the pandemic widened gaps between the highest- and lowest-performing students nationwide. Studies have found ...

Learning acceleration describes efforts to expose students to engaging, grade-level content while catching them up on skills and material they might have missed. This can be a more effective approach ...

Katina Tibbetts is determined to hold all her students to high standards. But she also knows that different kids need different kinds of help to get there. Tibbetts, who teaches 1st, 3rd, and 5th ...

As educators plan how they will address lost student learning during the next school year, they should forgo the traditional remedy of remediation in favor of a strategy known as acceleration, a new ...

As the nation works to collectively get students back on track after pandemic-era learning disruptions, new research provides promising evidence that learning acceleration can help all students catch ...

Two years after Covid-19 forced nationwide school closures, the academic toll of the pandemic is coming into focus—and it's a sobering picture. Even before the pandemic, my organization, TNTP, sounded ...

Students stretch legs while wearing a mask during a physical education class at Roger Sherman Elementary School in Meriden. Credit: Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org Summer school is getting an overhaul in ...

Joe Hettler is the Vice President, Southeast of TNTP, an education nonprofit that helps school systems across the country end educational inequality and achieve their goals for students. Shalinee ...

Summer school at James B. McMillan Elementary is informal compared to the regular school year, but the gears are still turning in these students’ minds, according to school officials. “There’s a whole ...