Author: Shane Miles

Leveraging Community Based Organizations

Community-based organizations (CBOs), with their credibility and established relationships, can effectively serve as tutoring partners in their communities. In the 2023-24 Call to Effective Action (CEA), Accelerate awarded funds to seven CBOs committed to implementing, testing, and scaling a school day tutoring model, granting up to $150K to models with a strong theory of action and some evidence of structures and resources for success.

The Tutoring Revolution

More families are seeking one-on-one help for their kids. What does that tell us about 21st-century education?

What Schools Can Do to Help Immigrant Students Succeed

Approximately 1 million students in the United States are immigrants who have attended schools in the country for less than three years. Close to 700,000 students are undocumented, and about 7 percent of all students in U.S. public schools live with at least one undocumented parent, according to researchers.