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During the 2024-2025 school year, Niswonger Foundation’s Project On-Track high-dosage/low-ratio tutoring program supported seventeen Tennessee school districts and two local agencies to provide literacy and math instruction to over 7,900 students in grades 1-8. Research estimates student learning loss from the pandemic to be as much as 2 ½ times that of typical summer learning deficits. Research spanning the past few decades has found that, on average, tutoring increases student achievement by an additional three to fifteen months across grade levels and moves an average student from the 50th percentile to the 66th percentile (Center for American Progress, Scaling Up High-Dosage Tutoring is Crucial to Students’ Academic Success).
Research has also shown that reading proficiency is a key indicator of future academic success as well as lifelong socioeconomic and health outcomes, and high-dosage tutoring is one intervention that has a proven track record in closing academic learning gaps. In addition to tutoring services throughout the school year, Project On-Track has also supported student learning acceleration through numerous school district summer learning camps across the region. As of July 31, 2025 over 25,000 students have participated in high-dosage tutoring sessions through Project On-Track.
“The Niswonger Foundation is proud to be part of this visionary work. It is exciting to think about joining forces across the state, to ensure that our children have the best possible start to their future,” said Dr. Nancy Dishner, President and CEO Emeritus of the Niswonger Foundation. “Having seen the power of high-dosage, low-ratio tutoring in national research and in our Foundation’s current work, I am convinced that this is the right direction for student success.”
