![]() ![]() The company says it plans to use the new capital for, “talent development and expansion, new data and reporting engines and to improve the engagement experience for educators and their partners.” To educators and government funders and researchers, that data has other real value too – offering a rare opportunity to learn about tutoring and other personalized learning interventions with perhaps the largest data set ever.Īs evidence, Pearl has developed data-related product features in collaboration with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University and the National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA) to safely share information that may “guide major research into future learning models, showing not just how tutoring works but also when it works, for whom, and under what conditions,” a company announcement said.įor education, for understanding it better, especially at scale and under duress, the Pearl/Annenberg work may be richly rewarding.Īnd Pearl’s work helping tutors and districts reach more students has also attracted attention from another group of people seeking rich rewards – investors.Īccording to a recent company announcement, Pearl just closed a more than $4 million investment from a group of experienced education backers including Blu Venture Investors and Fidi Ventures. That’s probably exactly the type of data-rich impact and value that districts and policymakers were hoping to see from expanding tutoring. OnYourMark has published that the average reading scores of its students increased, “from the 21 st to the 47 th percentile within just 18 weeks and that the number of its students reading at or above grade level tripled across the year.” OnYourMark, one provider highlighted by Pearl, has said Pearl’s data prowess has made it better too. And while the focus is easy to put on districts, Pearl has been a real asset for tutors as well. ![]()
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