Tutors in high demand as students grapple with pandemic learning loss

by The National Desk

Mon, November 28th 2022, 12:46 PM UTC

FILE — Lear Preston, 4, who attends Scott Joplin Elementary School, participates in her virtual classes as her mother, Brittany Preston, background, assists at their residence in Chicago's South Side, Feb. 10, 2021. Schools across America are racing to make up for lost classroom time, budgeting billions of dollars for tutoring, summer camps and longer school days. But figuring out which students need help has become its own challenge after the pandemic left holes in some students' learning records. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar, File)

FILE — Students arrive for the first day of in-person classes at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, Oct. 1, 2020, in New York. Schools across America are racing to make up for lost classroom time, budgeting billions of dollars for tutoring, summer camps and longer school days. But figuring out which students need help has become its own challenge after the pandemic left holes in some students' learning records. New York City is adding three rounds of testing this year, hoping to pinpoint which students are behind and where. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Learning loss caused by the pandemic leading to an increased need for tutors. (KTUL)

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FILE — Lear Preston, 4, who attends Scott Joplin Elementary School, participates in her virtual classes as her mother, Brittany Preston, background, assists at their residence in Chicago's South Side, Feb. 10, 2021. Schools across America are racing to make up for lost classroom time, budgeting billions of dollars for tutoring, summer camps and longer school days. But figuring out which students need help has become its own challenge after the pandemic left holes in some students' learning records. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar, File)

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