D.C.鈥檚 high-impact tutoring efforts are also motivating students to go to school, according to preliminary findings from a review of the city鈥檚 programming.
The city鈥檚 Office of the State Superintendent of Education gave a grant to the National Student Support Accelerator at Stanford University to review its tutoring programming. The final results of the multiyear study are expected to be released in the fall, but the interim findings highlight the relationship between tutoring and student attendance.
Overall, students were less likely to be absent on days when they had a scheduled tutoring session, with researchers finding a nearly 7% reduction in the probability of absence. Tutoring sessions decreased the probability of absence by over 11% for middle school students.
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