Expanded Learning Opportunities
This news article features an interview with researcher Susanna Loeb and provides examples of districts that have implemented high-impact tutoring programs since the pandemic.
This article reports on findings that virtual tutoring increased early literacy skills for all students in a randomized controlled trial.
This report shares educator survey results that show a majority of surveyed districts offered summer programs in 2023, but districts' largest summer programs typically enrolled less than half of eligible students.
This report shares the research behind effective, high-impact tutoring programs and provides state actors with guidance for identifying evidence-backed programs.
This journal article shares findings from a randomized pilot of an online tutoring program that measured the program's effect on student achievement.
This report shares study findings on a full year tutoring program called Project On-Track, which provided schools with flexible, online tutoring sessions of this high-dosage, small-group literacy program for students in grades 1 to 3.
This brief shares qualitative findings on common challenges and barriers that have arisen as more school districts implement high-impact tutoring programs.

How should education officials define success for K-12 summer school programs? This question has become increasingly salient in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many states and districts implemented summer programs to help students recover academically and re-engage with school. Now, as ESSER funding dries up, states and school districts face tough decisions about which programs to keep, amend, or discontinue. 

This brief provides an overview of summer learning research in North Carolina.

Members of the RESTART Network’s Core Research teams gathered during the 2024 RESTART Network Forum to share progress and key learnings from their studies with members of other research teams and representatives from the Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Representatives from each of the five teams, hailing from states across the country, presented emerging trends of student experiences and outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic.