Even opponents of the bill say there are some "good" things about the bill, like having literacy coaches and high-impact tutoring. I am here to say that the literacy coaching and the high-impact tutoring proposed are NOT good; they are very BAD. Kevin Huffman, CEO of Accellerate, his newest creation to help "model policy agendas" in Arkansas through high-impact tutoring. High-impact tutoring is just another corporate-driven, profit seeking initiative that employs third-party vendors who are absolutely not experts in education. Longitudinal studies consistently show that kids who start reading at age 4 and kids who didn't start reading until age 8 are just as successful at school by time they reach the eighth grade.

Source: Washington Post May 18, 2023 06:14 UTC