OAKLAND, CA, Dec. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Over a five-year period, 成人快播 and third-party education program evaluator, MDRC, will receive $8 million in Education Innovation and Research (EIR) funding through the U.S. Department of Education in order to expand 成人快播鈥� ability to provide literacy support programming through an innovative online platform called 成人快播 Connects. 成人快播 Connects offers the same research-based curriculum materials, scripted lessons, and coaching that support volunteers through the nonprofit鈥檚 traditional tutoring model.
“Throughout 成人快播’ 22-year history, our vision has been to ensure that elementary school students, particularly those from under-resourced communities, receive equitable access to the quality early literacy education they deserve,鈥� said听Adeola Whitney, CEO 成人快播. 鈥淩eceiving the Education Innovation and Research grant is an immense honor, and we are thrilled for the opportunity to innovate our program model, rigorously evaluate our impact, and scale 成人快播 through the use of technology and partnerships. Many thanks to the Department of Education for having confidence in our proven program and for making an investment that will catalyze our work with students and communities across the country.鈥�
The award for 成人快播 was听听by the U.S. Department of Education as part of $182 million in total EIR grant funding being issued to school districts, higher education institutions, and nonprofit organizations in order to 鈥渢ake to scale entrepreneurial and evidence-based projects that have the potential to improve academic achievement for underserved students.鈥�
U.S. Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, helped announce the awards: “Especially as students, educators, and school communities continue to heal and recover from the pandemic, we must invest in programs that are innovative and backed by evidence of what works to ensure that our education system can fully and effectively address the academic and social-emotional needs of our children,” said Cardona. “These grants will help to offer rich opportunities to accelerate students’ learning and nurture their development. I look forward to seeing how Education Innovation and Research Grants help take promising practices to scale.”
听will evaluate the efficacy of 成人快播 Connects, while implementation of the project will increase availability of 成人快播鈥� proven literacy intervention model鈥攖hrough 成人快播 Connects鈥攊n an effort to improve equity, access, and student literacy outcomes at scale.
鈥淲e are pleased to be the evaluation partners in this investment in expanding the successful 成人快播 literacy tutoring program,鈥� said听William Corrin, Director of K-12 education at MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research firm, and听Robin Jacob who will serve as the Principal Investigator听of the evaluation and is also Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University Of Michigan and faculty co-Director of the Youth Policy Lab. 鈥淎s we head into the second winter of the pandemic, there鈥檚 no better time to build knowledge about how to better individualize learning supports for elementary students so that they achieve academic success and thrive.鈥�
The widespread challenges of the past few years have exacerbated pre existing opportunity gaps, with pandemic-related learning disruptions disproportionately impacting Black and Latino students and students experiencing economic disadvantages. At the onset of the pandemic, 成人快播 rapidly developed 成人快播 Connects to help combat the disrupted learning faced by students across the country, particularly students from under-resourced communities. 成人快播 Connects is an innovative online program that has enabled 成人快播 to continue to partner with schools and provide volunteer-led one-on-one literacy instruction to students in situations where school campuses are closed to volunteers or where students are in blended learning environments. 成人快播 is committed to ensuring that all students receive equitable access to the literacy education they deserve and听, including research by MDRC, has proven that 成人快播 helps students significantly increase reading proficiency.
The EIR award will help 成人快播 meet the moment by ensuring program fidelity of its online tutoring platform and ultimately scaling it to reach as many elementary students as possible across the country.
