Tutoring

Three Lessons School Districts Have Learned About Contracting for Results

Schools spend billions of dollars a year on products and services, including everything from staplers and textbooks to teacher coaching and training. Does any of it help students learn more?

Tapping College Students to Sustain High-Quality Tutoring Post Pandemic

This piece originally appeared in The Hechinger Report. Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and…

Six Keys to Scaling High-Quality Tutoring

Jackson Elementary School in Louisiana’s East Feliciana Parish District sits on a quiet street just outside the town of Jackson, population 4,130. It’s a 30…

Research Notes: “Short Bursts” of High-Impact Tutoring Led to Big Reading Gains

Results of a randomized controlled trial of an early reading tutoring program designed to be affordable at scale

Outcomes-based Tutoring Contracts Get Results, Save Money

This piece originally appeared in The 74 Anyone who sells products to public schools can tell you education is a huge market. Schools spend billions of dollars…

Learning Curve: Lessons from the Tutoring Revolution in Public Education

A report on how to scale and sustain high dosage tutoring that profiles schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Odessa, Texas; and New York City

Three Keys to Successful High-Dosage Tutoring

Virginia’s All in VA invests millions in high-dosage tutoring post-pandemic, a research-backed model proven to improve student learning outcomes

A Long-Term Strategy for Funding High-Quality Tutoring

With millions of students struggling academically in the wake of the pandemic and a raft of research pointing to high quality tutoring as an effective way to raise student achievement, it’s not surprising that upwards of 80 percent of public schools offered some form of tutoring in the 2022-23 school year.