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TNTP Featured in The Hechinger Report’s Proof Points

| The Hechinger Report | Jill Barshay

Harvard education professor Martin West says we need to reconsider the whole notion of academic recovery. Bouncing back would require students to learn faster than they normally do. “There’s nothing in the science of learning and development that would lead us to expect students to learn at a faster rate after they’ve experienced disruption and setbacks,” he said.

Tequilla Brownie, the CEO of TNTP, a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, said after the report’s release that we need to take a more “surgical” approach to helping kids catch up, first using diagnostic tests to figure out where each student’s gaps are and then creating tailored plans to fill them.

Read more at The Hechinger Report.

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Yet the possibilities we imagine push far beyond the walls of school and the education field alone. We are catalyzing a movement across sectors to create multiple pathways for young people to achieve academic, economic, and social mobility.

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