Carnegie Learning High-Dosage Tutoring Services Selected as a 2024 CEA Grantee

Pittsburgh, PA– Carnegie Learning, a leader in AI-driven technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions for K-12 education, today announced the company won a competitive grant from Accelerate, a national nonprofit working at the nexus of policy, research, and practice to scale high-dosage tutoring. The grant comes through Accelerate’s Call to Effective Action (CEA) program started in 2021 to help innovative tutoring providers launch, research, and grow classroom-ready programs. Accelerate received over 180 strong applications, and Carnegie Learning’s proposal stood out as one that has the potential to improve student outcomes and advance the field of individualized instruction. 

“We are thrilled to be awarded a Call to Effective Action grant from Accelerate,” said Courtney Lewis, Carnegie Learning’s Vice President of Tutoring Services. “Our team is dedicated to exploring cost-effective and sustainable methods to expand access to tutoring services for a broader spectrum of students. The findings from this study will furnish us with invaluable insights into student learning trends, empowering us to make well-informed decisions regarding our instructional methodologies. We are excited about this incredible opportunity and its ability to demonstrate the efficacy of our tutoring program.”

Specifically, this grant will enable Carnegie Learning to demonstrate the impact of high-dosage tutoring coupled with MATHia on student test scores, while delving deeper into the synergy between AI software [in MATHia] and live tutoring support.

“The goal of our Call to Effective Action grant program is to help scale personalized learning solutions to support more kids with learning recovery in the wake of pandemic-related school disruptions,” said Accelerate Chief Operating Officer Nakia Towns. “High-dosage tutoring has real potential to address learning recovery in a targeted way, but there are still gaps in the research that are yet to be explored. We’re excited to help the 2024 cohort of CEA grantees build stronger evidence and begin to fill some of those gaps.”

Accelerate selected Carnegie Learning to receive a Call to Effective Action grant because it demonstrated its potential to scale and a commitment to building evidence. As part of the grant award, Accelerate will connect Carnegie Learning with leading education researchers to address the priority areas on Accelerate’s Research Agenda, including:

● Understudied student groups, such as those older than second grade, those with IEPs, and multilingual students;

● Rigorous study design, which requires sample sizes of 350 students or more;

● Study outcomes that are relevant to policymakers and show the long-term impacts of tutoring on student test scores; and

● Data collection and replication to demonstrate the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of tutoring programs in different school settings.  

Carnegie Learning will join a community of nonprofit, for-profit, and public sector organizations committed to developing and scaling research-backed tutoring models to improve student outcomes, especially for historically underserved students.