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Early-Literacy High-Dosage Tutoring: Year 2 Impacts & Sustaining Momentum

On Wednesday, February 25, 2025, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education hosted Early-Literacy High-Dosage Tutoring: Year 2 Impacts & Sustaining Momentum. At the webinar, Johns Hopkins University's Center for Research and Reform in Education presented new findings from their second year evaluation of the One8 Foundation funded Ignite Reading program in Massachusetts. One8 tutoring funds were provided to schools serving high concentrations of students from low-income families for first grade seats, drawing on evidence that this is where literacy tutoring is most effective. The evaluation found that participating students gained another 5.4 additional months of learning beyond typical national growth over the course of the SY24-25 school year. These gains are consistent with the gains found in their 2023-24 evaluation of the program, and the second year evaluation found that gains largely persisted for 2nd grade students who received intervention in the 1st grade. The Director of Literacy & Humanities at the Mass. Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE) shared an update on the state initiative to utilize a $25M state appropriation to provide nearly 10,000 young readers across the Commonwealth with early literacy high dosage tutoring. Drawing on examples from other states, a national expert discussed approaches Massachusetts could take to sustain the tutoring initiative. Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll closed the program, sharing reflections on the urgent need to ensure every student learns to read and the Healey Administration’s support for high-dosage tutoring as a game-changing literacy intervention. The Healey-Driscoll Administration proposed another $25M for early-literacy high-dosage tutoring to serve 10,000 students in the 2026/2027 school year. This proposal renews the $25M commitment Massachusetts made last year to address widespread early literacy gaps. Watch the webinar recording and read the full JHU report to learn more about how this research-backed tutoring intervention can help address the state’s literacy crisis: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/... Program Overview Opening Remarks Ed Lambert, Executive Director, MBAE Analysis of Program Outcomes Amanda Neitzel, Associate Research Professor, Center for Research and Reform in Education, John Hopkins University Presentation on Statewide Early-Literacy Program Katherine Tarca, Directory of Literacy & Humanities, Mass. Department of Elementary & Secondary Education National Perspective on High-Dosage Tutoring Kathy Bendheim, Strategic Advising Director, National Student Support Accelerator, Stanford University Closing Reflections Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, Massachusetts