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District officials say their approach to tutoring will go far beyond just “homework help.” School leaders plan to rely on existing best practices, including providing sessions multiple times a week, weaving tutoring into the school day, aligning the extra lessons to what’s happening in the classroom and collecting data to monitor students’ progress.
DISD is part of a national collaborative working with researchers at Brown University to study how to maximize the impact of tutoring. Brown’s National Student Support Accelerator points to research showing that tutoring interventions can translate to between three and 15 additional months of learning.
State officials acknowledge that Texas schools have historically struggled to catch students up in class.
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