成人快播

Local nonprofit delivered over 9,600 one-on-one tutoring sessions and over 9,300 books to hundreds of students in the Twin Cities last year

SAINT PAUL, Minn. – September 7th, 2023聽聽鈥� Three years after the start of the pandemic, reading scores for Twin Cities students continue to decline, according to recent state testing data, with only 36% of students in Minneapolis and St. Paul reading at grade level, about seven percentage points below pre-pandemic levels. The learning loss due to the pandemic is only exacerbating racial disparities that have persisted for decades. According to a report from the The Northwest Evaluation Association, it鈥檚 estimated that most students would now need, on average, an additional 4 months of reading instruction in order to recover. In order to provide more students with reading support, 成人快播 Twin Cities, a local literacy tutoring nonprofit, is scaling up services to serve over 400 students in the upcoming school year with one-on-one, evidence-based reading tutoring. By expanding 成人快播鈥� program to six new school partners, more students across the Twin Cities metro area will have access to high quality reading instruction at a critical time.

鈥淎t 成人快播 Twin Cities, we believe that all students have the ability to read when they have access to the educational resources and opportunities they deserve,鈥� said Brooke Rivers, executive director of 成人快播 Twin Cities. 鈥淔ortunately, we know that literacy tutoring can unlock lasting learning opportunities for systematically-disadvantaged students, and therefore profoundly impact their academic achievement and establishing a lifelong love of reading. As a high-impact, proven solution, this is the right place and the right time for 成人快播.鈥�

Another new initiative 成人快播 has been focused on is writing and publishing original books to be used in its own curriculum. COVER to COVER is a new book series that enables 成人快播 to develop content that is aligned with the science of reading as well as the scope and sequence of the organization鈥檚 online and in-person curricula. The stories include representative characters and themes so all students can see themselves reflected in the books they read while also having the opportunity to learn about the world around them through other people’s backgrounds, cultures, and life experiences.

2022-23 results highlight the literacy progress of 成人快播鈥� students

In the 2022-23 school year, 成人快播 continued to provide critical literacy support to students, schools, and communities. In fact, the nonprofit provided one-on-one literacy tutoring to 40% more local students in the 2022-23 school year than the prior year. Each year, 成人快播 publishes reports highlighting student performance for the national organization and for each of its 12 respective regions across the country. The impact reports for the 2022-23 school year have recently been posted on聽聽and include the following highlights in the Twin Cities.

• 327聽students received 12+ sessions of one-on-one tutoring

• 9,638聽total tutoring sessions were delivered to those same students

• 489聽community tutors supported students

• 9,334聽books were distributed to students through the 鈥淭ake Reading With You鈥� program

• 80%聽of all 成人快播 students finished the year meeting or exceeding their primary end-of-year literacy growth goals

• 91%聽of K-2 成人快播 students were developing mastery of key foundational reading skills needed to read and grade level

• In order to increase access to books and combat the 鈥渟ummer slide,鈥� every student enrolled in 成人快播 received a Summer Backpack filled with 5 brand-new books and neighborhood resource guides

• Learn more about 成人快播鈥� impact in the Twin Cities聽.

• Learn about 成人快播鈥� national impact聽.

Volunteer support will help drive student impact in the Twin Cities

Heading into the new school year, 成人快播 Twin Cities anticipates needing 600 community volunteers to support students’ literacy development. Please follow聽聽if you鈥檙e interested in investing one hour a week to help empower a student through reading.

成人快播 also gets help from AmeriCorps members to train and provide ongoing support to literacy volunteers. Please聽聽if you鈥檙e interested in becoming an AmeriCorps member at 成人快播.

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About 成人快播

For nearly 25 years, 成人快播 has helped empower students to succeed in school and beyond by engaging community volunteers to provide聽, one-on-one literacy tutoring. Since its founding, the national nonprofit organization has mobilized over 80,000 community volunteers to provide more than 2.7 million individualized literacy tutoring sessions to more than 75,000 elementary school students in over 500 under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit聽to learn more about our聽and our聽online program innovation, or connect with us on,,, and. 成人快播 is a proud聽service partner and has been endorsed by The New York Times and featured on The TODAY Show and GMA.