The simple intervention that could lift kids out of 'Covid slide' [hechingerreport.org]
By Alia Wong, The Hechinger Report, August 10. 2020 Zachary Carr hadn’t known Victor for long. Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. But Carr had spent enough one-on-one time with Victor to discern that the boy was unusually fidgety during their latest morning session. Victor had made lots of progress in math since he began meeting twice a week with Carr at a Nashville-area Boys &...