Category: Success Stories

For many tutors and aspiring teachers, becoming the best educator is a top priority. While there are many avenues to their tutoring skills, a service year with Saga Education gives an in-depth, hands-on experience that will set them up for a lifetime success in their teaching career. Saga fellows can be part of the fight for educational inequality by helping  underserved students who need critical math support.

The New York State School Boards Association released a three page research brief this week on addressing “learning loss,” endorsing high dosage tutoring, citing Saga Education’s evidence throughout.

John King, president and CEO of the Education Trust, and the former U.S. Secretary of Education during the Obama Administration, provides opening remarks about the importance of personalization to support youth amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and how Saga Education is influencing the k-12 landscape.

The Education Lab conducted a study that demonstrates individualized, intensive (or “high-dosage”) tutoring can double or triple the amount of math high school students learn each year, increase student grades, and reduce math and non-math course failures. The findings, which are the result of an intervention developed by the non-profit organization Saga Education, come as school districts across America grapple with the pandemic’s academic fallout, including significant learning loss among students and the acceleration of pre-existing educational disparities.

In the United States, there is enormous potential to close longstanding opportunity gaps through the scale-up of evidence-based programs. We are grateful for organizations like J-PAL North America and the University of Chicago Urban Education Labs for helping us to understand our impact.

Inside each of us lives a story waiting to unfold. Some are born with an open road ahead. Others with twists and turns. Though our stories start in different places, each of us can help steer where our stories go.