The research findings

Accelerated learning improves student engagement which helps support students so they struggle less

Students who experienced learning acceleration struggled less and learned more, completing 27% more grade-level math lessons than students who started at the same level but experienced remediation instead.

Zearn's math acceleration resources helps accelerate learning for students, even during school closures

Learning acceleration was particularly effective for students of color and those from low-income families, completing 49% more grade-level lessons than those who experienced remediation.

Accelerated learning helps engage students of vulnerable populations where access to teachers is more difficult

Students from high-poverty schools were nearly 2x as likely to be remediated than their peers in low-poverty schools —even when they had already demonstrated success on grade-level math content.

Students from high poverty schools improved their math understanding over previously implemented remediation

The results are some of the first “empirical evidence at a massive scale” that acceleration produces different, and more promising, results than remediation, said Shalinee Sharma, Zearn’s CEO.

EDUCATION WEEK

“It’s counterintuitive”: Teachers are trained that remediation — going back to unlearned material — is the way to make up academic losses. But a new TNTP and Zearn report using pandemic-era data suggests there’s a better way.

THE 74MILLION

Students whose teachers began the 2020-21 school year teaching them grade-level content in math — going back to fill in content they had missed in the spring when needed — did better than similar students whose teachers started the year by teaching them the material they had missed from the previous grade.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Learning acceleration , defined

Zearn's "Just-in-time" approach connects unfinished learning with grade level content and additional resources

A "just-in-time” approach that connects unfinished learning into the context of new, grade-level learning.

In learning acceleration, a third grade teacher starts with third-grade math content, and builds in key second-grade concepts when students need them to access grade-level learning. Check out our on-demand webinar to see learning acceleration in practice.

Zearn teacher helping kids with math online

Learn more about how Zearn can support learning acceleration in your school or district.

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